After 1 week of school, Dawson County School System has reported 11 student cases.
Dawson County has 3500 students enrolled in in-class learning.
After school started, the school district had to alert parents not to send their kids to school if they have symptoms or are awaiting tests results.
Wear a mask
Social distance
Wash your hands
GET TESTED
brazen2 wrote:
After 1 week of school, Dawson County School System has reported 11 student cases.
Dawson County has 3500 students enrolled in in-class learning.
After school started, the school district had to alert parents not to send their kids to school if they have symptoms or are awaiting tests results.
Wear a mask
Social distance
Wash your hands
GET TESTED
And?????
A “positive case” simply means no symptoms or a cold.
4,923 new cases in Texas today. 234 fatalities. Worldometer now has Texas in 2nd place for total positive cases, edging out Florida. Texas is 12th on infections per million. 20th on fatalities per million.
I am not sure how the data lines up, but the local NBC affiliate reported over 2,000 new cases for the Houston area today. Seems a bit odd that the Houston area would make up about 40% of the total cases in the state when we make up about 1/4th of the population in the state.
Statewide hospitalizations began dropping after a short plateau. Hospitalization are now at about 5,600 after holding above 6,000 for a few days.
On the national stage, HHS dumped hospitalization data back on the CDC. Six months in and we are still figuring out how to collect basic data.
https://gizmodo.com/whoops-looks-like-covid-19-hospital-data-is-going-back-1844793143
According to a poster on another thread there has actually been fewer deaths in America to date in 2020 than in each of the three previous years.
I wasn't aware of this - Europe is having a large scale outbreak of the virus. Right now.
Which would be bad...I'm not aware of a place that has suffered a major second wave. Until now.
Deaths have not started increasing yet so we'll see if the regular 3 week lag leads to increased deaths.
The Unkle wrote:
According to a poster on another thread there has actually been fewer deaths in America to date in 2020 than in each of the three previous years.
It's just amazing how wrong (or actively mendacious) some people can be, isn't it?
Of course, the link to the "excess deaths" chart has been posted multiple times, completely giving the lie to his/her assertion.
agip wrote:
I wasn't aware of this - Europe is having a large scale outbreak of the virus. Right now.
Which would be bad...I'm not aware of a place that has suffered a major second wave. Until now.
Same old stuff: too many people eschewing masks and too many crowding together, especially indoors. Just a foretaste of what awaits the U.S. when the cold weather arrives, I'm afraid.
brazen2 wrote:
People not getting tested in Georgia is a significant problem.
No. Too many people getting tested is a significant problem.
Until you can get average turnaround time to 24 hours or less, testing does not help to stop the spread.
8/20 Data
Another good day in terms of deaths. We're looking at the best numbers of August right now in the world, the US as a whole and AZ TX FL CA combined.
Brazil and India still not good though.
agip wrote:
I wasn't aware of this - Europe is having a large scale outbreak of the virus. Right now.
Which would be bad...I'm not aware of a place that has suffered a major second wave. Until now.
I wouldnt have said Europe is having a large scale outbreak as such. France needs to get its stuff together FAST, Spain may be recovering - too early to say' Places like Croatia and Greece are seeing big rises, but very small populations and overall numbers so far.
Definitely a little uncomfortable but fingers crossed. If France cant contain a second rise, the indications are very bad. My wife is there at the moment - she says the roads and holiday places are deserted, but that is in the mountains, i bet the beaches are packed.
agip wrote:
I wasn't aware of this - Europe is having a large scale outbreak of the virus. Right now.
I'd say "large scale" is a bit over the top on this. France 3,776 cases on Wednesday a post-lockdown high. But if you normalize to their population it's the equivalent of Florida having around 1,100 cases in a day. The concern is if it spreads exponentially of course. The number people in ICU in France with COVID is 374. We will see if it gets worse, hopefully not.
Article:
https://www.france24.com/en/20200819-france-daily-covid-19-cases-hit-new-post-lockdown-highTHOUGHTSLEADER wrote:
agip wrote:
I wasn't aware of this - Europe is having a large scale outbreak of the virus. Right now.
I'd say "large scale" is a bit over the top on this. France 3,776 cases on Wednesday a post-lockdown high. But if you normalize to their population it's the equivalent of Florida having around 1,100 cases in a day. The concern is if it spreads exponentially of course. The number people in ICU in France with COVID is 374. We will see if it gets worse, hopefully not.
Article: hh
look at the chart of new cases in France - cases are rising very quickly and regularly. From what we've seen in the past, that is a very bad sign and does not end quickly.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/france/https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/france/Current hospitalizations lowest level since Jul11
7-day average for newly reported hospitalizations lowest since Jul10
Wear a mask
Social distance
Wash your hands
GET TESTED
Barring a significant backlog of unreported deaths in GA, it looks like the 7-day average for deaths, based on the actual date of death, peaked on Aug07 at 54 deaths/day (this number may rise by 1-3 due to backlogged data).
Aug07 is exactly 27 days from the peak in cases which happens to be the number a poster proposed earlier in this thread for the average number of days from symptoms onset to death.
Wear a mask
Social distance
Wash your hands
GET TESTED
After 6 days of in-class learning, the Forsyth County School System has reported 25 positive COVID cases for students and staff. 48% reported at HS, 24% for MS, and 28% for ES.
Forsyth County School System has ~43,000 in-class students and staff.
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Social distance
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GET TESTED
Texas had 258 new fatalities and 4,651 new cases. Fatalities broke 11,000. Positivity rate was down to 11% statewide but bounced back to 14% as testing dropped off significantly the past few days. A backlog of 370 cases was added to the statewide total. About half from Dallas and the rest Fort Bend County (Houston suburb).
A tropical storm/hurricane should make landfall late Tuesday somewhere between Corpus and Beaumont. Does not look that bad right now, but systems in the Gulf have been gaining intensity much faster than predicted. At least it looks like the system will push through fairly quickly and not be too much of a flooding event. Evacuation orders may be limited to the coastal zones. Last thing we need is piling people into shelters right now.
There are 14 states that still have no mandatory mask requirement. All 14 are red states that went for Trump in 2016.
Of the top five states in cases per capita, four are in that group of 14. The fifth is Louisiana, and despite it being one of the first states to have a large outbreak, it didn't implement a mask requirement until July 11th.
Top five states by cases per capita:
1. Louisiana
2. Florida
3. Arizona
4. Mississippi
5. Georgia
Trumpism leads to death and suffering.
Trumpism is a death cult. If you are in this cult, the blood is on your hands.
Interesting story about a city in Brazil that may have reached some sort of herd immunity.
It was one of the hardest hit places...but then deaths stopped.
Maybe with this disease we don't need 70% to get to herd immunity, esp if masks and social distancing are part of the picture.
France now a real worry. 7 day moving average in new cases is the highest its ever been!!!
Many euro countries struggling with post opening rises - some maybe recovering, others not.
Worrying times, as i have said a few times before, France has got to sort itself out. Maybe Spain has? too soon to tell, but at least signs are healthy.
Death rates in the post opening increase remain extremely low.
brazen2 wrote:
Wear a mask
Social distance
Wash your hands
GET TESTED
And take vitamin D
Over 30 clinical trials are underway to test the efficacy of vitamin D as a preventive and therapeutic for COVID 19.
Any rational person who has seen the data would be persuaded to start taking vitamin D immediately. About 87% of Americans and 93% of African Americans are DEFICIENT in vitamin D, having less than 30nmol/l. I talked with a doctor who said his typical patient has D levels of 16-18. The optimal range is 30-100. I take 5,000IU of D daily. My D level is 83. I have been exposed to COVID 19 and I think I've had it, but I've been mostly asymptomatic. Regardless of whether I have or have not had it, the data on vitamin D as a preventive and therapeutic are impressive.
The correlation between low vitamin D levels and severity of COVID 19 is as great as...
Obesity
Age
Heart Problems
Diabetes
Many people, and especially populations with darker skin, cannot store vitamin D from sunlight. It's a genetic trait that evolved to protect this population from sunlight in equatorial regions. To get adequate levels of D, they either need to be in the sun a LOT or they need to take a vitamin D supplement.