It's got a new name COVID-19. Death rate is now worse, about 2 or 3 % compared to 0.5% last week. Tests are getting out in the field and that has raised the number of cases in the US to 3 thousand or so, a big up since last week where it was 244. That's probably the result of testing. A week ago the tests were not out there, and we were not calling COVID-19 infection unless we had tested for it. Now that we have more tests, we are finding more cases. So far New Hampshire is doing OK, only 6 cases so far.
Apparently people under 50 can mostly shake it off, death rate for them is way less than 1%. For old fogies like myself, the death rate can be as bad as 10%. Youngest son called today and urged me to be careful. If things keep getting worse, they may cancel Senate sessions down in Concord, at which point I can just sit back, relax, and work on my HO train layout here at the house. My old school has just canceled Alumni Day coming up in May. Too bad, I was going, it would have been my 60th high school reunion.
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