Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

OMG! Another ad hominem attack!!

 

Yeah, facts are that in Florida cases are rising and the positive rate is rising as well. Given that my parents are both in Florida nursing homes where employees have now tested positive, no, I do not want the numbers to go up. But due to people like you, who want to open everything back up, the numbers are going up. And that affects the old people in nursing homes too -- the ones you say should just isolate themselves. Well they can't isolate themselves from sick employees who serve them their food and provide them their healthcare.

 

This post is boring. Goodbye.

 

yes they can isolate. The nursing home should not have the person who’s positive even be in the building. That won’t happen at my moms place.

 

Don't leave! I'm going to miss you so much though!!

 

Oh honey. You are so cute when you're mad!

 

No it probably will. But you have no control over that. Even if they are testing every employee every single day, they can't keep it out forever. And the more cases there are outside of the nursing homes, the more likely it gets inside the nursing homes.

 

yes they can keep it out. It’s been kept out of my moms nursing home for 3 months. You need better safe guards. Nothing is full proof but any place that allows anyone who is Covid19+ in their building is negligent.

 

No they can't. It was kept out of my mom's nursing home for 3 months too, until now. Eventually an employee will get it and be in the home before testing catches him/her. Even testing every day can't prevent that forever. Plus there are false negatives.

 

Don't take the bait. It has worked before and the board is a better place.

 

no, it can be kept out. And yes testing every day would keep it out.

 

Well not sure what happened in Michigan but 5k new cases today and 260 deaths.

 

according to worldometer they did over 130,000 tests, that seems way to high for 1 state, but if true, their positive percentage was still only 5%

 

was probably a reporting backlog that came through. Still a crazy number.

 

just corrected to 370 new cases, wtf is going on with reporting? they still show, according to worldometer, 130,000 tests today.

 

Keep deluding yourself then.

 

todays numbers. according to worldometer 700,000 tests, although i still do not believe michigan did 130,000. 25,393 new cases, a 3.75% positive. 975 deaths.for the week 3,131,929 tests. 158,129 positives, a 5.2%. 6614 deaths.compared to the week of 5/9-5/15 about 840,000 more tests, only 136 more positives, 3,350 less deaths. if the massive increase in weekly tests, the bare minimal in new weekly cases, and a almost 1/3rd drop in deaths does not convince you we are way ahead of this i do not know what will.

 

I don’t think he’s allowed to post a picture of his ass...

 

I'm not following your numbers. Are you saying there are 1/3 fewer deaths in the U.S. this week? I'm tracking 3-day increases and have the following:

Date.......world cases.....world deaths.....U.S. cases.....U.S. deaths
May3........255,940............14,061...............93,006...........4,731
May6........258,072............16,907...............75,063...........6,212
May9........278,941............15,389...............84,217...........5,238
May12......239,189............12,376...............61,327...........3,388
May15......284,608............15,658...............75,649...........5,082
May18......266,271............11,660...............66,009...........3,474
May21…....303,083……….....14,472………........70,608…….......4,373
May24…....303,683……….....12,072………........65,534…….......2,946
May27…....291,339…….....…10,756………........59,367…….......2,807
May30…....364,906……….....13,454………........71,017…….......3,450
June2…...…324,528…….....…11,316………........64,385…….......2,502
June5……...365,955…….....…15,934………........84,503…….......3,331

I understand that case counts are likely increasing due to increased testing. The current U.S. case count, though, is alarming. If we are getting out in front of this thing, the cases will be reduced even with more testing. Increased testing does not account for higher fatalities. The U.S. number is lower that it was one month ago, but it's still up and down. The latest period is up. Let's hope the metro protests do not result in spikes throughout the U.S. because the virus is obviously still out there in abundance.

 

Not good

Amid reopenings and street protests, coronavirus transmission remains high in much of the U.S.

Data compiled by The Washington Post shows that 23 states, as well as Washington and Puerto Rico, have seen an increase in the rolling 7-day average of coronavirus cases compared with the previous week. Most have registered an increase of 10 percent or more.
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But a briefing document prepared by the Federal Emergency Management Agency and distributed Thursday to senior federal officials captured the scale of the challenges remaining. FEMA tracks how many days in a row a state records a decline in new daily coronavirus cases. Thirteen states — Arizona, California, Idaho, Kentucky, Mississippi, Nebraska, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin — had not shown a sustained daily decrease as of Tuesday, according to the document, a copy of which was obtained by The Post.

A separate Post analysis of county-level data reveals the patchwork nature of the epidemic, with some communities showing dramatic spikes — a tripling or more of cases within the last two weeks — even as surrounding areas remain stable. These localized outbreaks have often been in counties that contain meat processing plants, prisons or assisted-living facilities. New data shows that almost a third of the deaths nationally have been in nursing homes.

Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves (R) announced this week that the number of patients on ventilators in Mississippi hospitals hit a new high last weekend, and he warned that “the threat of covid-19 is as great as ever, if not greater.”

Florida on Thursday reported its highest number of new daily cases — 1,419 — since the state began providing such statistics in March, according to the Miami Herald. More than half the state’s cases so far have been in the South Florida counties of Broward, Miami-Dade, Monroe and Palm Beach.