The Corona Virus March 13, 2020

There are currently 2,289 confirmed cases in the US and 50 reported deaths. That's an increase of 526 cases and 9 deaths.

Washington has 568 cases and 37 deaths.
New York has 421 cases and 0 deaths.
California has 295 cases and 5 deaths.

Here in New Jersey we have 50 cases and 1 death.

Governor Murphy is looking at closing all schools and will probably do so early next week.

New York City continues to keep its schools open so children can get meals and their parents have someplace to leave them when they go to work but the pressure is mounting to close them.

Hoffman La Roche has announced a new COVID-19 detection test for its copas 8800 and 6800 devices that should reduce test time giving the 8800 a theoretical capacity of over 4,000 tests per day and the 6800 a theoretical capacity of over 1,400 tests per day.

There are some 110 of these devices installed and Roche is cranking up production of the kits so if this can get into full swing it will help a lot.

President Trump has declared a state of emergency so that will free up money for additional test kits but at the same time he insisted that all of the tests won't be needed.

The man is an idiot.

Personally I'm staying home the next couple of days and then I'll see.