Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

they are averaging around 300 cases a day over the last 2 - 4 weeks. 3 days ago the number was 347, 5 days ago 448. Picking a number at the bottom of the trough is disingenuous cherry picking of data and you know it. It just discredits anything else you say when you engage in those practices.

Did you know that per 100k, Sweden death rate is higher than US and Brazil?

 

It was your article. I guess you pick the parts of the article you want to believe and dismiss the rest. Got it

 

I looked and yesterday was the most recent number. Easy as that. 211 cases average over the last 3 days. Nothing discrediting at all. Numbers are the numbers.

 

Yeah that's how it works with this guy. He says 'No proof, just someone saying it' to something that was in his own article.

 

Italy, with highest death rate per 100k in the world and one of the hardest hit countries, is now shutting down nightclubs and mandating masks as cases begin to spike again. If I was a betting man I would wager that Italy had a much higher infection rate than Sweden

Italy closes nightclubs as coronavirus cases rise among young

ROME (Reuters) - Italy is to shut discos and clubs and make it compulsory to wear a mask outdoors in some areas during the night-time in the first reimposition of restrictions as cases of coronavirus pick up across the country, especially among younger people.

 

Harvard says false positives are higher than false negatives. Maybe that evens it out.

Which test is best for COVID-19? - Harvard Health Blog

 

UNC made it exactly a week with in person classes, 130 cases later, online only.

UNC reverses plans for in-person classes after 130 students test positive for Covid-19 - CNN

 

posted wrong link. other discussion is in Florida thread

updated link on Italy. If any country had acquired any immunity through mass infection I would think it would be Italy. Apparently that didn't happen

 

UNC is already down for the semester with 130 positive tests.

UNC-Chapel Hill reverses plans for in-person classes after 130 students test positive for Covid-19 - CNN

 

well if school isn't in session, what does that mean for ACC football? Perhaps another domino falls.

 

Coronavirus is spreading in schools, but the federal government isn’t keeping count

 

Not sure why they are surprised with a 4.4% rate of their overall enrollment. What did they expect? That seems to jive with the nationwide testing positives.

 

They had a 13.6% positivity rate on tests in the past week. It was in the second sentence of the article. Also, no, 4.4% of the population doesn't currently have Covid.

 

Sorry, i was in a store and the article didn’t load. Why did they only test 1,000. Notre Dame tested 12k in the first 3 days back to school. I didn’t say 4.4% of the population. I assumed unc tested the whole student body. Dumb not to before everyone is back in the dorms. Makes it seem unlikely UNC will play football this fall.

 

Still don’t understand why colleges care so much. The students don’t give a rip because Covid to them is equal danger as the flu. Colleges should treat it as such. Give their professors N95 masks and they are safe.

 

A lot of public schools aren't able to test their entire student body upon re-entry. Florida is screening and then testing those that fail a screening. Community infection rates are too high to absorb the amount of testing at a public school being implemented at some smaller, private schools.

 

Well, for one, colleges are often times in broader communities that care about hundreds or thousands of cases. Second, there aren't enough real N95 masks to have all faculty and staff (Universities have to keep staff safe as well) at all universities wearing N95s all day.

 

Have professors wear N95 masks and they are safe. Spend the money for staffers to wear N95 masks as well and cut down on the amount spending for testing since the students don’t care about Covid.

 

It will be cheaper than paying for testing for all the students. And require students to wear a mask in businesses. It’s not that hard to implement. You will never stop college kids from partying.

 

Let's say the average employee at a University needs 3 masks per week (likely an underestimate). About 3.6 million people work at universities. A 15 week semester would require 162 million masks. Good luck finding 162 million N95s laying around. You can't even buy them on Amazon right now because of demand at healthcare facilities.