Anybody notice the US passed 3,000,000 cases yesterday? So much winning.

YankeeTarheel wrote: Sun Jun 28, 2020 9:33 pm

YankeeTarheel wrote: Wed Jun 24, 2020 7:47 pm

YankeeTarheel wrote: Thu Jun 18, 2020 9:44 am My town: 494 cases and 67 deaths. It's basically under control here...for now. In 5 days (since I last posted) just 3 new cases and no more deaths.

In 6 days, my town actually has less cases. 491 cases, and 68 deaths. It's essentially been arrested--but will it last? I have no idea.

4 days later, only 2 more cases, 493, and no more deaths, still 68. Stopped....but on March 15 we had 2 cases. 3 1/2 months to 491 more case and 68 deaths.

But other than California, all the states with exploding cases are primarily Republican dominated--Florida's the worst.

Since June 28, 8 days later (Jul 6) we now have 501 cases and still only 68 deaths. Despite not enough wearing masks. Still, taking a 90 minute walk yesterday and stopping at CVS, everyone I saw either stayed FAR away (and I brushed my teeth, too! ) or wore a mask. CVS and Walgreens both provide disinfecting wipes.

The answer to safety is simple, but Trump's re-election is more important than 133,000 dead--to him. If we "only" continue to have ≈300 deaths/day we'll have 170,000 dead Americans by Election Day. But in the 6 to 12 week lag time between infections exploding and resulting deaths, far more will probably die by then. The "exploding infection rate" state of Cal, Tex, and Fl, have already blown past the former leaders in daily deaths, NY and NJ--just a few days ago we still had the most daily deaths in the wake of OUR April/May surge that has flattened and fallen.

I keep predicting gloom and doom...and we keep getting it. Using Trump's illogic, if I stop predicting, things will get better.

Still the concentration of cases is in the Northeast and along the east coast. And New York is still #1 in total cases and per 100K population. Metro areas are still hazardous to your health.
https://graphics.reuters.com/HEALTH-COR ... index.html

Glad you're getting out and walking everyday YT, especially important will all the gloom and doom around.

We have 87 cases in Carlton county. I,m pleased to announce that I found out today that I'm not number 88. I was tested last tue and it took a week to get the results back. Not sure what I had last week that caused the fever and head aches but by friday I figured I was a goner. Saturday no fever and by sunday eating normally. Bad week.

highdesert wrote: Tue Jul 07, 2020 10:12 am Still the concentration of cases is in the Northeast and along the east coast. And New York is still #1 in total cases and per 100K population. Metro areas are still hazardous to your health.
https://graphics.reuters.com/HEALTH-COR ... index.html

Glad you're getting out and walking everyday YT, especially important will all the gloom and doom around.

Yeah, some days I swim, others I bicycle, also have a treadmill and my old bike set up as a stationary bike. while the virus seems under control here, the WORST thing people can do is get stupid. The longer we stay smart, masked, gloved, washing hands, keeping apart, the sooner the virus will run out of hosts here. It's slowed, massively, here, but ONLY due to being smart not stupid.

Well, not my village but Bolsonaro has tested positive.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/07/brazil- ... virus.html

featureless wrote: Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:31 pm Well, not my village but Bolsonaro has tested positive.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/07/brazil- ... virus.html

Why does Brazil have all the luck??

time for a state visit with US leaders, shake hands, kiss the ladies, hugs all around. press the flesh so to speak. lots of great photo-ops.

Wino wrote: Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:34 pm

featureless wrote: Tue Jul 07, 2020 12:31 pm Well, not my village but Bolsonaro has tested positive.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/07/brazil- ... virus.html

Why does Brazil have all the luck??

Yup.

eelj wrote: Tue Jul 07, 2020 11:16 am We have 87 cases in Carlton county. I,m pleased to announce that I found out today that I'm not number 88. I was tested last tue and it took a week to get the results back. Not sure what I had last week that caused the fever and head aches but by friday I figured I was a goner. Saturday no fever and by sunday eating normally. Bad week.

Good news and glad you're on the mend. There are a lot of bugs out there, but you're immune system should be purring along since it successfully fought off whatever you had.

275 cases (+7) / 96 in isolation / 175 released / 5 hospitalized / 3 deaths (+0) / 378 daily tests, in Butte County, California

CDFingers

Sixteen Covid-19 deaths on Monday and fifteen Covid-19 deaths Tuesday. Another three hundred and thirty five positive cases reported; one thousand seven hundred new cases in just seven days. Seven hundred and thirty five people being treated for Covid-19 in area hospitals and of those 205 are in ICUs. There are 2955 known active cases in the county.

And they had to change the scale yet again even though they changed it yesterday.

pretty good for a hoax, huh?

lurker wrote: Wed Jul 08, 2020 7:47 am pretty good for a hoax, huh?

We're pretty balanced; there were 340 cases released from isolation yesterday but 335 new cases identified. The latest repeating tale is that the tests are pre-contaminated to raise the numbers and destroy the economy. The deaths though have been from all age brackets but heavily weighted toward 40 and older. Deaths are a trailing indicator and seeing them jump from one or two a day to fifteen and sixteen a day with no gradual rise is somewhat concerning.

i don't look at the state or county numbers much lately. the US is due to cross 3 million confirmed cases today, (early by my reckoning, i wasn't expecting it until tomorrow) and 60 thousand new cases yesterday(still counting i suspect, it takes a day or so for all the reports to come in).

we'll be seeing 100k new US cases daily before the end of the month, and if the pattern runs true, 5 thousand dead per day.

I think I'm going to invest in some full face respirators. Good for fire evacuations and tear gas, too!

Crazy times we're living in.

My county was just added to the state's watchlist (meaning we're going the wrong way). Up to 1,487 cases and 14 deaths.

The State of Texas estimates that we have one day before 100% of the available ICU units are filled Statewide.

sig230 wrote: Wed Jul 08, 2020 9:43 am The State of Texas estimates that we have one day before 100% of the available ICU units are filled Statewide.

yeah that's bad...

kronkmusic wrote: Wed Jul 08, 2020 10:17 am

sig230 wrote: Wed Jul 08, 2020 9:43 am The State of Texas estimates that we have one day before 100% of the available ICU units are filled Statewide.

yeah that's bad...

Hope they have expansion plans for beds and equipment to create more.
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My county reported 587 new cases yesterday, my town is up to 68 cases and 9 of those are at a nursing facility, the rest community acquired. The county is up to 272 deaths, but the fatality rate dropped to 1.7%. Hospitalizations are at 484 pnts, but the county is only using 5.8% of its surge capacity.

My county isn't having problems with testing, unlike LA County which is doing 26,000 tests per day and is saying it needs to expand. Almost half of California's COVID-19 cases are in one county, LA County.

highdesert wrote: Wed Jul 08, 2020 10:27 am

kronkmusic wrote: Wed Jul 08, 2020 10:17 am

sig230 wrote: Wed Jul 08, 2020 9:43 am The State of Texas estimates that we have one day before 100% of the available ICU units are filled Statewide.

yeah that's bad...

Hope they have expansion plans for beds and equipment to create more.
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My county reported 587 new cases yesterday, my town is up to 68 cases and 9 of those are at a nursing facility, the rest community acquired. The county is up to 272 deaths, but the fatality rate dropped to 1.7%. Hospitalizations are at 484 pnts, but the county is only using 5.8% of its surge capacity.

My county isn't having problems with testing, unlike LA County which is doing 26,000 tests per day and is saying it needs to expand. Almost half of California's COVID-19 cases are in one county, LA County.

Space is not really the issue. Locally some of the temporary building from a local school district are being considered for bed expansion but the critical care infrastructure for ICU units simply doesn't exist and is also an issue nationwide.

In this county our first fatality was on 04/08 and on 05/31 we were up to a total of only ten deaths. June saw another 22 deaths to bring the total county-wide to 32.

In just seven days of July though we have seen 58 additional Covid-19 deaths taking the County total up to 90 total. That's almost twice the number from all of June in just seven days.

Change of that magnitude and that rapid an increase are beyond any County's ability to respond.

295 cases (+20) / 109 in isolation / 175 released / 7 hospitalized / 4 deaths (+1) / 109 daily tests, in Butte County, California

CDFingers

For Denton County Local health officials reported 123 more county residents have tested positive for the coronavirus.

Tarrant County Fort Worth and other cities reports record 757 new COVID-19 cases, 10 more deaths

sig230 wrote: Wed Jul 08, 2020 9:43 am The State of Texas estimates that we have one day before 100% of the available ICU units are filled Statewide.

As of 8am, there were 1017 ICU beds remaining in TX, per a City Council meeting right now. I'd say that estimate is pretty close.

In my County we had one death in March; we had five deaths in April; four deaths in May; twenty-two deaths in June and seventy-one deaths in the first eight days of July.

sig230 wrote: Thu Jul 09, 2020 7:33 am In my County we had one death in March; we had five deaths in April; four deaths in May; twenty-two deaths in June and seventy-one deaths in the first eight days of July.

Mid-March we had 2 cases. We peaked in NJ in April and May. We reached 64 deaths, and in the last almost 2 months we've had 5 more.
In the trail of our peaking cases then, the state-wide deaths have taken longer to come down. So we've had 500 cases and 69 deaths in our town of 30,000, but we haven't suffered many cases or deaths in the last couple of weeks..

Our county, Essex (which includes Newark) has nearly 19,000 cases.

However, there's been an uptick--we've had a few recent days with nearly 500 new cases, tho yesterday's load was 247, and that has led Gov. Murphy to increase requirements on masks and distancing. Now, even outdoors, a mask is required if there are other people around. As far as schools reopening, Murphy's admin has put out a document of over 100 pages and our town and superintendant is studying it with a preliminary plan coming out next week. Here, in the NE, schools don't open until after Labor Day, so we have more time than the South. The super's not an idiot and is determined, with the B of Ed, to keep the kids, faculty and staff safe, and though they don't say it, have the attitude of FDT.