The John Hopkins database is attempting to connect information on the most local levels with larger trends.

The link goes the the U.S. but it is a component of a world map.

Testing still in a rudimentary stage on the level of understanding what is happening. Information from local communities is subject to other kinds of limitations. What makes the John Hopkins approach valuable is that they made the model on the basis of what should be understood rather than trying to make one in the absence of information.

all your tariff r belong to us! pwnd!

By Joseph J. Collins @ SmallWarsJournal.com, April 16

Collis is a retired Army Colonel, served DoD in and out of uniform for four decades; decade plus in the Pentagon, capped off by service as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Stability Operations, 2001-04, taught for 25 years at West Point and the National War College, and for more than two decades in Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program, an author in and co-editor...., life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and holds a doctorate in Political Science from Columbia University.

I have been sick since mid-March.

No, I don’t have the Covid-19 virus, thank God, but I have had a month-long bout of nausea, anxiety, and mental discomfort [....]

It indeed may be a Covid-19 side effect. But I will just add my anecdotal experience from spending a lot of time as a visitor to ICU's--not a medical professional: if you spend too much time in an ICU for a variety of reasons, you end up on dialysis; the two things almost seem to go hand in hand, it's like a side effect of serious modern medicine.

establishment Republicans seem to very much cotton to ideas about less regulation shaping up, more "free enterprise":

From NYTimes obits "Those We've Lost" to Coronavirus,  by Aaron Randle, April 16

When playing his favorite game as a youngster, cops and robbers, Cedric Dixon always insisted on being the one wearing the badge.

“He had to be a cop,” Monique Dixon, his youngest sister, said. “That was always his goal.”

Mr. Dixon died on March 28 while wearing the badge of a detective with the New York City Police Department. He was 48.

The cause was complications of the new coronavirus, Ms. Dixon said. His death, at North Central Bronx hospital, is believed to be the first of a sworn N.Y.P.D. officer caused by the virus.

Detective Dixon had served in the police department for 23 years, working primarily in the Bronx. Promoted to detective just a year ago, he was assigned to the 32nd precinct, covering Harlem.

His colleagues described him as such an adroit interrogator that it was not uncommon to find him shaking hands with a suspect after extracting a confession. “He was, simply, above par,” a spokesman for the Detectives Endowment Association said.

Detective Dixon was born on Aug. 10, 1971, and raised in the Williamsbridge section of the Bronx by his mother, Ceceletha Dixon, a nurse from Jamaica, alongside five sisters and a brother. As an adult he was described as both towering — at 6 feet 8 inches tall — and tender [....]

Sweeping testing of the entire crew of the coronavirus-stricken U.S. aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt may have revealed a clue about the pandemic: The majority of the positive cases so far are among sailors who are asymptomatic, officials say.​

,,,The Navy’s testing of the entire 4,800-member crew of the aircraft carrier - which is about 94% complete - 

...Roughly 60 percent of the over 600 sailors who tested positive so far have not shown symptoms of COVID-19, the potentially lethal respiratory disease caused by the coronavirus, the Navy says. The service did not speculate about how many might later develop symptoms or remain asymptomatic.

“With regard to COVID-19, we’re learning that stealth in the form of asymptomatic transmission is this adversary’s secret power,” said Rear Admiral Bruce Gillingham, surgeon general of the Navy.