Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

Why do you bring food to a drug fight?

 

Really interesting perspective Tilly. And I do not disagree, but it's sad when Gov't loses the trust of the people. Like the EPA, its not protecting anyone except big industry.

 

since it appears that for some reason testing is down, new case numbers also will be down, thus, imo, the death rate will stay stagnant, or even rise ever so slightly, but, a drop in positive cases daily is a good thing, again, imo.

 

I mean, that's who I'd ask for a cure.

MyPillow CEO Lindell Says White House Asked Him To Look For ‘Cures’ For Covid-19

 

That's just embarrassing.

 

UConn students evicted from dorms for holding pandemic party

 

Unsurprisingly he found the cure was, in fact, a pillow. MyPillow to be exact.

 

US coronavirus: Georgia, Texas and Florida lead the country in Covid-19 cases per capita - CNN

Georgia is number one again for the first time since 1981!

 

got these off of worldometer, total tests today about 750,000 around 30,000 more than the august average. new positives about 44,000, the august average was around 52,000. today's positive % was about 5.8, for august it was 7.2. last 4 days new positives under 45,000. not since june 30 has that been so, so, are we looking at the downhill slide, or are the last 4 days a abnormality?

 

Iowa has rushed to re-open their schools, and the result is being called "chaos".

Iowa governor's push to reopen schools descends into chaos

The federal recommendation is no more than 10% of tests should be positive to have education in the classroom, and most states are in the 3-7% range for their limit.

 

Won't even take that long...

Sturgis motorcycle rally: A person with Covid-19 may have exposed others at a bar - CNN

 

This doesn’t make me feel any better.

Asymptomatic kids may be more contagious than severely ill adults, new study finds

 

If it wasn’t such a serious issue I would laugh. How damn insane is th President?

 

Well the CNN "article" twisted the data to meet their objective.

 

The World o meter data for Florida obviously has some flaws. More than 10% of the "reported" cases in Florida should hav e recovered.

 

'Silent spreaders’: Evidence grows that children may play a larger role in transmission than once believed

As schools reopen in parts of the United States, a paper published Thursday found that some children have significantly higher levels of virus in their airways than the most severely ill adults — suggesting their role in community spread may be larger than previously believed.

The study in The Journal of Pediatrics comes on the heels of two others that offer insights about children and covid-19 transmission. On July 30, researchers reported in JAMA that children younger than 5 with mild or moderate illness have much higher levels of virus in the nose compared to older children and adults. Shortly before that, investigators in South Korea found in a household study that older children passed on the virus as readily as adults, while younger children did not.
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“Some people thought that children might be protected,” Fasano said. “This is incorrect. They may be as susceptible as adults — but just not visible.”

Lael Yonker, lead author and a pediatric specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital, expressed surprise that the viral loads of hospitalized adults who are usually kept isolated may be “significantly lower than a ‘healthy child’ who is walking around with a high SARS-CoV-2 viral load.”