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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.
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And?????
A “positive case” simply means no symptoms or a cold.
True.
But not scary.
France new case 7 day moving av showing big problems - 2nd spike worse than first. Kids going back to school? winter season starting?
Only good news is that deaths remain very low.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/france/
Spain isnt a whole lot better, and deaths slowly rising there.
Germany, Italy, UK barely holding on.
Germany, Italy, and UK had similar case numbers to Tennessee yesterday. Tennessee is approximately 10x smaller population. Georgia had higher case numbers than all of them and is more than 5x smaller population.
Unfortunately, Spain and France did not learn anything from the resurgence in the US. Restrictions on nightclubs were relaxed in coastal resort towns this summer. That set the stage for a new outbreak. There is a lot more testing going on now than back in March. So, the number of positives now is not comparable to the spring. But it is a significant outbreak and the reaction from authorities in Spain and France has been very slow and weak. Australia had a similar outbreak in Victoria and took very strong and decisive measures. That outbreak went from 400+ positives a day down to under 100 a day in the same 3-4 week time frame that the outbreak in Europe has exploded.
Indoor bars, clubs and private parties are just not something that can happen while the virus is circulating. The Texas governor is hinting at lifting restrictions on bars as Texas has shown progress since peaking in July. But the virus is still at relatively high levels in Texas with a seven day average above 4,000. That is actually a rate that is higher than France as France as a bit more than 2x the population as Texas. Incredible to think that France is moving towards imposing restrictions to control an outbreak at an infection level that Texas officials consider to be a "victory", allowing restrictions to be relaxed.
During the first 6 weeks of face-to-face learning for 39,000 students and staff, the Forsyth County school system has averaged nearly 3 new cases per day.
After 7 weeks of face-to-face learning, there are 39 active student COVID cases in Cherokee County public schools. 25 in high schools and 14 in middle/elementary schools. Cherokee County has 32,000 students in face-to-face learning.
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My school county in Georgia needs to open up.
brazen2 wrote:
During the first 6 weeks of face-to-face learning for 39,000 students and staff, the Forsyth County school system has averaged nearly 3 new cases per day.
After 7 weeks of face-to-face learning, there are 39 active student COVID cases in Cherokee County public schools. 25 in high schools and 14 in middle/elementary schools. Cherokee County has 32,000 students in face-to-face learning.
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New cases .... but alas, none of these kids are sick and certainly none are dying. But you sheep keep believing while you destroy kid’s lives.
It would be revealing to find out the age and health conditions of these 57 people in Georgia who died (apparently) from Covid-19. Mostly elderly? Other underlying health issues like diabetes, obesity, pulmonary or heart conditions, etc. (over 30% of Georgia's population is overweight). We'll never know, because it's info that's politically incorrect to report on. Better to just keep banging the drum with numbers and leave the impression that this could happen to anyone.
It's like when the news reported on the 21-year old university student (University of Pennsylvania?) who recently died of Covid. The undertone was, "See, this is what we can expect when you reopen campuses!" His death was sad, of course. Period. And it's also relevant that 1) he had underlying health conditions and was, from the pictures, morbidly obese; and 2) he is so far the youngest person in the state to die of Covid-19.
The population of Georgia is over 10 million. 57 sounds like a lot, yet in a pool of 10 million it's less than 6 ten thousandths of the population. If 57 died daily for the next 365 days, it's 2/10ths of 1 percent.
Let's remember that the news hooks you best— and those who make it know this —when it makes you angry & outraged or fearful & anxious.
Georgia is now entering its 11th consecutive week of declining cases.
Deaths are down 57% from peak one month ago (Aug07 - Sep06 - 14 day confidence window).
Current hospitalizations at a 12 week low.
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In Georgia, Whites make up 58% of the population. African-Americans - 32%.
GA COVID-19 Deaths by age/race:
0-17
African-American: 50%
White: 50%
18-29
A-A: 48%
White: 17%
30-39
A-A: 63%
White: 25%
40-49
A-A: 60%
White: 27%
50-59
A-A: 50%
White: 39%
60-69
A-A: 54%
White: 41%
70-79
A-A: 42%
White: 54%
80+
A-A: 31%
White: 66%
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brazen2 wrote:
In Georgia, Whites make up 58% of the population. African-Americans - 32%.
GA COVID-19 Deaths by age/race:
0-17
African-American: 50%
White: 50%
18-29
A-A: 48%
White: 17%
30-39
A-A: 63%
White: 25%
40-49
A-A: 60%
White: 27%
50-59
A-A: 50%
White: 39%
60-69
A-A: 54%
White: 41%
70-79
A-A: 42%
White: 54%
80+
A-A: 31%
White: 66%
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COVID 19 is a vascular virus. People with hypertension, diabetes, etc. are at significantly higher risk for death. The above statistics are pretty much a mirror image of statistics for conditions like hypertension and diabetes. Big difference between whites and blacks is that whites have better access to health care and get diagnosed and treated for these conditions. Many people have high blood pressure but have not symptoms. Same with high blood glucose levels (pre-diabetic). If we had a real public health response to COVID, we would have testing centers where everyone first gets their BP checked and then has blood glucose checked. Anyone with high levels would immediately be given free meds and a follow up appointment with an appropriate specialist. That could potentially slash COVID 19 deaths by half over time.
Another data dump from NE Georgia counties in regards to cases. 40% of today's reported cases came from 4 counties and were from tests in July.
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Georgia cases have dropped 67% since peak in mid-July.
Fulton County cases have dropped 80%.
DeKalb County cases have dropped 77%.
Gwinnett County cases have dropped 77%.
Cobb County cases have dropped 71%.
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Dougherty County, the early epicenter of cases/deaths in Georgia, has not recorded a COVID-19 death in September.
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Georgia continues with the data dumps we've seen over the past few days.
Nearly 60% of the deaths reported yesterday occurred more than 2 weeks ago.
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Some good news.
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Things have improved substantially in Texas since July. Hospitalizations in Houston are down from a peak of about 350 7 day moving ave to 80-90. New cases have flattened to about 3500 a day statewide. September has mostly been flat and seems to mark an end of steady improvement from the peak in mid July. Our dummy governor kept bars closed but let restaurants and other venues open to 75% capacity.
The state health department released almost 14,000 positive cases to the Houston area case count that had not previously been reported. That is equal to about 7% of the total cases reported from the beginning of the pandemic and is about two weeks worth of new cases. It is crazy that so many cases did not get reported until just now. Previous explanations of these sort of mass releases were that private labs had coding errors.
Most of the big school districts have been all virtual the first six weeks of school. Others have given parents the choice of in person or virtual. Seems like it is about 50/50 in lower income districts and 80% in person and 20% virtual in wealthier suburban districts. Absent a change in the current trajectory of the virus, all the big districts (Dallas, Houston, San Antonio) will start offering in person instruction mid October.
I have generally seen very good compliance with mask wearing in places like grocery stores, etc. I am seeing a lot more people going out to restaurants and eating indoors. A lot of bars have retooled themselves as restaurants by having a food truck parked outside. A lot of bars are still closed.
I think we have about 4-6 weeks before cases start to climb again as the weather turns cooler and transmission in schools and colleges starts to really kick in. There will be a lot more kids in school starting mid October than are currently in school. From there, I think there will be another big surge in cases. A lot of the summer surge was in low income communities of color. The more affluent, white suburban communities did not see nearly as much infection. Schools, restaurants and social gatherings could change that this fall and winter.
Testing in GA is down ~30%. We need more people to be tested.
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Precious Roy wrote:
I think we have about 4-6 weeks before cases start to climb again as the weather turns cooler and transmission in schools and colleges starts to really kick in. There will be a lot more kids in school starting mid October than are currently in school. From there, I think there will be another big surge in cases.
Separately, early data from Texas also show low levels of infection. In Texas, about 2,350 students reported positive tests — or about 0.21 percent of the 1.1 million students attending school in person, according to data released last week. An additional 2,175 school employees tested positive, although a rate could not be calculated because it was not clear how many of the state’s more than 800,000 school staff members were working in school buildings.
Teacher’s unions in Texas that keep track of infections say they have been surprised by how low it was. In many parts of the country, teacher’s unions have resisted school systems’ efforts to return to classes, saying sufficient safeguards were not in place.
“I am not seeing at this particular point the rate I had expected,” said Zeph Capo, president of the Texas branch of the American Federation of Teachers.
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Every reply now is a trying to justify the Trumpet Governors in Texas, Georgia and Florida; hugh mistake of "too quick reopenings", required by Bully Trump ! Those 3 states probably had 15,000 unneeded deaths between them. Thanks, Donald !