Covid Daily

Starting today, I'm going to jot a few thoughts down about Covid-19 more-or-less every day - my personal experience, stats that catch my eye, references to articles, etc.
This is mostly for my own purposes, but I'll do it in blogger, just cuz.

Catch-up (3-18-2020)

I'd say I realized about a week ago that we were about to undergo a "tectonic shift" due to this Covid. I started remote working on Thursday the 12th, but we did go to a small (12 people) gathering at a coworker's house Thursday night.

Yesterday Carson and his friend Nicole were leaving Moab to head back to MSU in Montana. They had just started heading north when I got word of an earthquake (5.7 Richter) outside of Salt Lake City, and right on their route back. We had them re-route to here instead.  Upside - We get to see Carson!

At 11:30 last night we got word that MSU is closing their campus for the remainder of the semester and does not want students returning to campus AT ALL.

Other notes:

• We heard about our first person we personally know that (presumptively) has Covid-19. He's 52 and in bad shape up in Greeley, being intubated.
• We heard of 6 people (3 teachers and 3 students) in Highlands Ranch High school tested positive
• I read an article indicating from the CEO of the hospital in the Vail valley that he thinks there are hundreds or maybe thousands of people in the Vail Valley that have it and test results are continued to be delayed. https://www.cpr.org/2020/03/18/in-coronavirus-hotspot-vail-health-ceo-makes-dire-call-for-social-distancing/

Today

We are late to the game, but we are in the game. Social distancing has been pretty informal, and we as a family today have stepped it up a lot.  We feel bad, but made the hard decision to not allow Kyra to have any friends over.  Lane, the next door neighbor, came over yesterday.  Her family is aware of the situation but has interacted with several other families, and Carson and Nicole just came back obviously, so it is in the best interest of both households to distance.

News / Sources / Highlights

https://www.ft.com/content/a26fbf7e-48f8-11ea-aeb3-955839e06441

https://twitter.com/jburnmurdoch/status/1240373707224363014
U.S. on the same trajectory for cases as Italy.

Some early VERY good news:
https://techcrunch.com/2020/03/19/french-study-finds-anti-malarial-and-antibiotic-combo-could-reduce-covid-19-duration/

Nicole

Nicole, Carson's friend from school and fellow mountain biker is from Minnesota.  We are figuring out how we can get her back home.  I really feel for these freshmen - just on the edge of becoming more and more independent, and then shifting suddenly back to their parents' homes - it can feel like a step backward for many.

Current plan is that her cousin happens to be coming through Denver on his way to driving back to Minnesota. We will rendezvous somewhere with him tomorrow and Nicole will hitch the ride back to her homeland.