Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

I have interpreted your position as being that cases were rising because of testing increases, not just that both happened to be happening at the same time. Regardless, do you think infection is spreading given that both testing numbers and percentage of positive tests have risen? If not, what other explanation could there be for those two numbers (testing and positive test percentage) rising?

 

Vents are now option of last resort as treatment protocols have changed. Appx 80% of those who get put on vents do not survive

 

I don't who you are talking about. One of the main models (IHME) back in April had us down to near 0 deaths per day by now. That obviously has not happened.

 

@buckeyegator, hospitalizations are up in Texas in a major way:

 

Interesting to read the threads and posts celebrating our victory over the virus, and how overrated it was, isn’t it? Meanwhile, in Arizona:
Banner says ICU beds are approaching 100% capacity.
Arizona Department of Health Services changes how it counts COVID-19 ICU beds in use | FOX 10 Phoenix

 

Meanwhile, in New Zealand
With no active Covid-19 cases, New Zealand is lifting almost all its coronavirus restrictions

 

This is why the overall number is misleading. Click on the link below and then go through the graph of our 100 counties. Only 3 or 4 are showing increases while the other 96 or so are showing a steady hold or decrease.

The positive cases are in a couple little hotspots. NOW is when we isolate those spots.

Of course flair ups will happen...but most of this state is not seeing a spike.
It just isn't. It may tomorrow, but at the moment it is not.

 

North Carolina Coronavirus Map and Case Count

I count 43 counties with rising totals, including Mecklenburg, Wake, Durham, and Forsyth. The light orange, darker orange, and red are all rising.

 

those 2 articles you posted contradict each other. One says it’s at 100% capacity for icu beds the other somewhere between 17-23%. So which is it?

 

Already too late where there are “hot sports.” This country didn’t have the discipline to do what countries who drove the cases to very low levels. It is full of people with opinions who reach false conclusions based on data (like the percentage of positive cases is going
Down, short term trends and the like; not going to wear masks). The “cases are for up because we are testing more” really reflects a profound ignorance of virology and the pathetic leadership taking us through this. Because it doesn’t mean we are beating the virus. It just confirms that with more testing, we are still finding more cases. So why would anyone believe that a lower rate of infection means the virus is going away?

 

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tommyb...in-california-arizona-and-north-carolina/amp/

 

We had 640 deaths today and a 4.42% positive test rate. Both are good numbers

 

Former Arizona health director: State could need new stay-at-home order
https://www.azfamily.com/news/conti...12545fae-a9dc-11ea-92ae-939e3cfa0647.amp.html

 

How do you reconcile that the state is doing well when the case count is most certainly spiking? The spikes might be isolated to some hot spots, but this is a virus and as long as there are hot spots, there will be spread. Is your state doing something in particular to isolate those hot spots?

 

you keep posting info about Arizona but won’t answer why in an article you posted showed contradictory icu bed numbers.

 

The light orange is stable. The dark orange is a small rise. Red are spiked areas of which there are very few. Those areas are skewing the state numbers right now.

 

Yes.

Wake County alone has employed over 150 contact tracers and the plan is each positive test is backtracked within 24 hours of testing.

 

No, the light orange is rising.

 

Other than the spike in world cases, the numbers during the last three days have been very encouraging. Here are the three day increases.

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
June8……...349,307…….....…10,486………........60,785…….......1,665

World and U.S. fatalities are way down. Will this still be the case after the protests?

 

Where do you see that?

No one is questioning a rise in case count anyway. I am saying that 10% positive rate is due to isolated events (mostly in nursing homes btw)
NC DHHS COVID-19: Congregate Living Settings