This data doesn't give us any useful information about the prevalence of spread of SARS-CoV-2. It could have spread through half the population -- or more -- without symptoms, or we could be seeing only the beginning. It all depends on the true R0.

The real failure here is that the CDC and the state departments of public health were not doing any sampling of the population and testing them to get an accurate picture of where we really are in the epidemic curve. Nobody thought to figure out the true R0 for this epidemic, so every policy making decision is completely blind. Government efforts to date could be anything from an unprecedented overreaction to not nearly enough, and nobody shows any inclination to check which. I suppose they're all afraid that the positions they've staked out without any real data to support them will turn out to have been the wrong one. Better not to figure out which was right after all, then.

Without data on the number of tests conducted, and on which patients, there's no way to tell if this data is reflective of the actual disease numbers or just reflects the number of tests performed. Since testing wasn't performed on randomized samples of the population there's no statistically valid way to make inferences about the population as a whole from this data set.

They're working on making them now, and the FDA loosened regulatory requirements to make this possible. You could be forgiven for not knowing any of that if your news comes from the New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, NBC, et. al. You have to ween yourself from the lugenpresse.

The first step is realizing you have a problem. It's a huge step, and it took me decades to make the leap. I ridiculed Republicans for decades for their whining about the liberal media. I even had the "The media is as liberal as their corporate owners" bumper sticker. Still eventually saw the light.

Came here to post almost precisely this. I hope somebody's keeping a database of these reporters that like to play fast and loose with the facts. It would be nice to make a Firefox extension that could grade the reliability of a story based on the reporter's past lies.

You can't argue with communists because they don't even accept the falsification principle. That means in their "knowledge" system it's impossible to be wrong. That's why we should just throw them out of helicopters. They can't be educated.

So everyone who's ever referenced a disease that is named after a geographical place has to resign? This is going to be a very long list. I don't know if you'll have any medical professionals left.

The name the WHO invented out of thin air with a political agenda, and without any regard to standard scientific classification and nomenclature of viruses?

It's easy to claim every failure of your shitty leadership is due to Russia somehow or another, but where's the evidence? Don't give me that bullshit that Russian trolls who spent $100,000 on Facebook ads turned the 2016 election. We just watched retard Bloomberg spend that much 5,000 times over and he could even win a frickin' primary.

They don't even understand that almost all Netflix traffic is local traffic. It's not being carried over backbones except once to deliver to their CDN servers. When a consumer watches Netflix they're streaming from a server on their ISP's network. It's basically LAN traffic and is not affecting the Internet.

I know it's hard for liberals to believe, but people are not benevolent or even helpful when given the chance. Even with all the social safety nets in place, patient zero in Italy ignored quarantine orders and continued working at his food delivery job. Why? Because he's a giant asshole. Hopefully Italy will charge him with the murder of every single person that dies of the virus he spread.

English is obviously not the first language of whomever wrote this article, but don't we have editors to catch errors? Come on guys.

Things like spurious commas:

Knowing these functions, allowed the researchers to recreate a map of what was going on inside the L1D cache way predictor

Run-on sentences:

The research team said it notified AMD of the two issues in August 2019, however, the company has not released microcode (CPU firmware) updates, claiming these "are not new speculation-based attacks," a statement that the research team disagrees with.

Non-existent words:

Hence, the CPU has to compare the cache tag in only oneway instead of all possible ways

Starting sentences with a conjunction:

But attacks on CPUs and their caches have been detailed for many years now.

Sentences with a missing subject:

What makes them truly dangerous is if they can be exploited in the wild.

Using a past participle as a transitive verb:

When inquired on Twitter if these attacks are as bad as any of the above...

What moron characterizes a random text message from Verizon enticing them to click a link whereby they are supposed to give up all of their login details as "realistic"? This is utter stupidity no matter how "real" the site looks. Anybody with a few cells in their skull knows that even if Verizon really did send such a text message, you check the URI to make sure it's really a Verizon URI. Validate the SSL certificates.

I hadn't considered that the crashes might be caused by hostile code somewhere in the process.

No betas, just release versions.

That explains why there are so many crashes now in an app that I used for almost a decade without any crashes:

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/9389

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/9349

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/9332

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/9330

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/9326

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/9304

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/9271

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/9266

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/9255

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/9254

https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Android/issues/9240

Notice that all of the 11 crashes above started being reported in December 2019. It took from November 2018 to December 2019 to acquire the previous 11 crash reports.