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How 1 person at a church in Ohio led to 91 documented infections

Ohio governor says 91 people got coronavirus after infected man went to church - CNN

(CNN)A man with Covid-19 went to church in mid-June, then 91 other people got sick, including 53 who were at the service, according to Ohio's governor.

"It spread like wildfire, wildfire. Very, very scary," Gov. MIke De Wine said Tuesday. "We know that our faith-based leaders want nothing more than to protect those who come to worship."
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In the case of community spread from the worshipper at the undisclosed church, a 56-year-old man went to the service. A total of 53 people got sick and 18 of those churchgoers spread it to at least one other person.

One instance of spread was a family in which a 34-year-old man became sick. His 31-year-old wife also became infected, as did four children who range in age from 1 to 11.

 

University of Connecticut evicts several students from dorms after party

This behavior concerns me and I am glad the school is trying.
I know they are college students but dang.

My son just started at GT. The dorms and the classes he has to go to are doing everything possible to make the experience happen. But on a run the other night, he said frat row was basically a thousand students partying and licking doorknobs.

Living in a state with very high infection rates, not sure how long GT will stay open. It was such a weird year for how he ended HS, I was hoping he would get some normalcy with regards to starting college.

 

Because it is the same corrupt organization overseeing them both.

 

Could you explain your signature by the way?

 

The gang that couldn't shoot straight still can't shoot straight.

 

Weird, an I’ll conceived idea by TA.
Maybe they can get the pillow guy to help out.

 

Videos show large gathering of SU students on quad

 

Haven’t seen any reports on this so maybe the many infectious disease experts on here can weigh in on whether or not licking door knobs is more or less safer than licking toilet seats.

 

It spread like wildfire throughout nursing homes as well, except the death rates were real. The NYT reported in the end of June that 40% of all COVID deaths happened in nursing homes. Typically the NYT would report numbers that hurt Trump not help. If that 40% is correct or close, how did it happen? Maybe the fact that Cuomo, Murphy, Whitmer, Newsom and Wolf sent COVID patients into those nursing homes (mandated), yet the federal government gets the blame. The DNC is hitting Trump hard on COVID and I get it. Lie, lie, lie and lie becomes fact. Cuomo has the nuts to write a book about how well he has handled the pandemic. He killed more people than anyone on the planet in the last 6 months. He mandated the sick go to the nursing homes. The one place no person with one brain cell would send a COVID patient.

 

Another school system goes down

Floyd County Schools transition to remote learning after 350 quarantine due to COVID-19

 

It has been well documented that the nursing home infections are directly proportional to the community infection rate and employees and visitors are the sources of the infections. It was workers that brought covid into my mom's nursing home in Orange Park 3 weeks ago. Worker infections are a result of high community infection that are a result of stupid people refusing to take it serious and do what is necessary to cut the spread.

I know it doesn't fit your agenda but that is the reality. Thank you to your and your ilk for perpetuating the spread that resulted in my Mom being locked into her room for 23 hours a day while they try and control the spread in her facility

Report Says COVID-19 Brought to N.Y. Nursing Homes By Infected Staff, Visitors

A New York State Department of Health (NYSDOH) report says the coronavirus outbreak that has afflicted nursing homes throughout the state may have resulted from staff and visitors unknowingly infecting residents early in the pandemic.

“Unfortunately, we did not understand the disease early on, we did not realize how widespread it was within our community, and therefore, it was able to be introduced into a vulnerable population,” said Dr. Howard Zucker, New York State commissioner of health, in a NYSDOH press release.

According to data submitted to NYSDOH by New York nursing homes, approximately 37,500 nursing home staff members, or one in four of the state’s approximately 158,000 nursing home workers, were infected with COVID-19 between March and early June 2020.

During the same period, more than a third of the state’s nursing home facilities had residents that were sick with the virus, the report said. Of the infected nursing home staff members, nearly 7,000 were working in facilities in the month of March.


Florida nursing homes see infections surge as workers spread virus
TALLAHASSEE — Florida nursing homes and assisted-living facilities have seen a 74 percent increase in coronavirus cases in the past month despite efforts by Gov. Ron DeSantis to isolate the elderly sick and avoid the kind of catastrophe that hit New York earlier in the pandemic, according a POLITICO analysis of state reporting data.

The governor’s novel move to cloister ill residents hasn’t prevented the virus from walking through the front doors of nursing homes. Infected, asymptomatic health workers themselves are carrying the virus and transmitting to their own patients, Mary Mayhew, secretary of the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration, said in an interview Wednesday.

Now, as a result, cases at nursing homes are soaring. The Florida Department of Health on Tuesday reported that an average of 2,606 residents a day tested positive for the coronavirus last week, a 74 percent increase from the 1,496 residents a month ago, during the week of June 14.

About one in five Florida residents is 65 or older, and the state is home to 691 licensed nursing homes with 84,448 beds.

And the number of infected workers at nursing homes and assisted-living facilities has more than doubled over the past month. On June 14, 2,326 facility employees tested positive for Covid-19. As of Monday, there were 5,766 cases.

 

Except that is not how it spreading New York. They did a study it spread in nursing homes like in NYC like it spread in nursing homes and prisons and other places (including Florida) where there numbers of people who require care and people from the outside. Where there is community spread of the virus, people bring it into nursing homes, jails, Immigration detention centers and other similar places. Because these places are not sealed off to the world. There are nurses, caregivers, doctors, food service people, janitors, maids etc. all who work there and come on. So, your partisan attacks on Cuomo are misplaced. And, they leave out the fact that the New York City hospitals were overrun and patients had to be released somewhere to make room for others. Remember when the virus hit the northeast? Right after Donald Trump said it was under control. And the northeast was blindsided. But then, posters like you, who defend racial profiling, trend to post fact challenged views to defend Donald Trump.

 

Thanks for posting the links. I was too lazy to dig up the study again. Sometimes, you just get sick of posting fact based responses to the same taking points that people are too wired into to actually verify.

 

decent numbers today, around 750,000 tests, around 45,000 new cases, about a 6% positive, trending good.

 

Whose writing these ridiculous accusations? One guy? Did they do tracing? Wow. Hey I saw a guy cough today within 11 ft of another human, that can’t be good...I’m calling CNN

 

Apparently the guy was Ohio’s Republican governor. He also called The Hill.
Over 90 coronavirus cases linked to Ohio man attending church service

 

It was a case study by Ohio Department of Health. I'm flabbergasted that you would lob out "ridiculous accusations" whilst in ignorance.

Cognitive Dissonance made easy.

 

Oh... okay. I'm sure the New York State Department of Health wouldn't cover for Cuomo because there was a threat to shut down the state gov't over the budget, which meant the Health Department shutting down during the beginning of the crisis. Atleast the Health Dept. was careful enough to say "may have resulted from staff and visitors". The only real concrete fact is knowing COVID patients were mandated to the nursing homes by governors like Cuomo.