COVID-19 cases active cases in U.S. declines for 2nd day in a row (3 declines in 4 days)

No, it's definitely increasing cases where I live in Alaska. People were fairly casual here, but after a big uptick in cases a few days ago, people realize that it's on the loose here. Mask usage in the grocery store has gone up dramatically yesterday compared to previous visits, so people are concerned.

You need to look at the states individually. The overall curve for new cases in the US is dominated by the decline in New York and other states in that area. I go to the site below, select new cases one week average, then highlight Alabama. If you keep the selection box for the state highlighted, you can use the down arrow to go through the states quickly.

https://91-divoc.com/pages/covid-visualization/

look at that curve you just posted...now look at where it was in March when all the nut job deniers said it had 'peaked' and would all be down hill.....you know about ~100,000 deaths ago.

I think reopening is going fairly well so far, but it's still early.

Time for phase 2 and then see how that goes..

Down again today

THAT'S WHAT I LIKE TO SEE, GOOD JOB JAMIN

Do the cultists still not understand that you'll get "more cases" as long as the amount of testing increases?

Now that the CDC itself has admitted an infection mortality of at most 0.26% - still probably an overestimate - none of this "oh no look at all those cases" means a damn thing anymore.

"game over" you lost and you're just torturing yourself. Go out and spazz at the cops like the rest of your cult. You're supposed to be AGAINST curfews now! Get with it.

Bad Wigins wrote:

Do the cultists still not understand that you'll get "more cases" as long as the amount of testing increases?

Now that the CDC itself has admitted an infection mortality of at most 0.26% - still probably an overestimate - none of this "oh no look at all those cases" means a damn thing anymore.

"game over" you lost and you're just torturing yourself. Go out and spazz at the cops like the rest of your cult. You're supposed to be AGAINST curfews now! Get with it.

Wiggins....still standing by your prediction of 2,600 cases?

jamin wrote:

Opening up more is definitely not increasing cases of the virus, if anything is doing the opposite.

Too early to tell. With the onset of each new phase, they give it a trial period of about 3 weeks at least to see what effect it has on creating a surge in the infection rates. This is a cautious and prudent approach, and was fully disclosed in Governor Inslee's public addresses, if you bothered to listen.

By making these thoughtless pronouncements of yours, you only show that you haven't bothered to understand the underlying workings of the virus, the rationale behind public policy and strategies, the fully disclosed metrics they are using to evaluate it's effect and spread, and the progress made to the current time/phase. This is apparent to many of us here, but I had hoped by ignoring your posts, they would just kind of go away and die on the vine. Since that doesn't seem to be the case, i felt compelled to respond.

You might compare the curve of our new cases with other countries. At least we're better than Sweden.

We are just going to bump along through a miserable summer of social distancing, and hope for the best in the fall, I think.

https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/new-cases

Texas "re-opened" early. Cases are currently spiking. The rate of increased cases is in excess of the rate of increased testing, meaning that there are more positives.

COVID ICU capacity in Houston has been steadily rising. If the current trend holds, ICU capacity will be exceeding in just two weeks.

There have been big outbreaks at meat packing plants in the Amarillo area and at the state penitentiary in Huntsville.

Governor's response has been full steam ahead on reopening. Bars and restaurants allowed to operate at 50% capacity.

https://www.axios.com/coronavirus-cases-spike-in-texas-oregon-and-arizona-1819ce9f-8565-483a-b367-b678a607154d.html

https://www.click2houston.com/health/2020/06/05/med-center-sees-uptick-in-covid-19-patients-in-icus-warns-if-trend-continues-capacity-could-be-exceeded-in-2-weeks/

Bad Wigins wrote:

Do the cultists still not understand that you'll get "more cases" as long as the amount of testing increases?

Now that the CDC itself has admitted an infection mortality of at most 0.26% - still probably an overestimate - none of this "oh no look at all those cases" means a damn thing anymore.

"game over" you lost and you're just torturing yourself. Go out and spazz at the cops like the rest of your cult. You're supposed to be AGAINST curfews now! Get with it.

So, you are saying that someone who is in the ICU for 6 weeks, intubated for 4 of those, survives but has badly damaged lungs and suffers from delirium and lost sense of smell and taste is no big deal? What kind of cult to you have to belong to in order to be so completely shut off from any empathy for human suffering in order to be able to ignore how devastating COVID 19 can be for people who survive?

In Colorado hospitalizations have dropped 65% since reopening businesses 6 weeks ago.

joedirt wrote:In Colorado hospitalizations have dropped 65% since reopening businesses 6 weeks ago.

You are making that up. From here:

Hospitalizations, based on beds used, ICU beds used and ventilators used, today are at 82% what they were on 19 April.

I appreciate your posts so don't take this as a personal attack.

You are right, it is tragic that someone's life is affected that way even when they survive.

But such is life.

People get all sorts of complications from all sorts of bacteria, viruses, etc.

A friend of mine, a good local runner (33:30 10k) had something as common as a pharyngitis. It took him just over two years to breathe normally again and regain some sort of running ability (back under 36 minutes).

We are all exposed to those things.

COVID-19 can be devastating but so can so many other things. Such is human life.

Disclaimer: a good friend of my family got out after 4 weeks in ICU. I am not at all implying that COVID-19 is a hoax or anything like it.

Wow, I guess the answer to solving the Corona virus crisis was to have mass close contact gatherings and protests.

Bad Wigins wrote:

Do the cultists still not understand that you'll get "more cases" as long as the amount of testing increases?

Good point Wiggo.

If those stupid libs hadn't done all that tested, your 'no more than 2600 cases' prediction could have been spot on.

To clarify on this thread dedicated to coronavirus, active hospitalizations due to coronavirus are currently at 215 confirmed cases and 104 patients under investigation. On April 28th, when the economy started reopening, those numbers were 784 and 210. Combined total of 319 today versus 994 then. That is an approximate 68% reduction. Compared to peak, we are at about a 74% reduction.

https://covid19.colorado.gov/hospital-data

Such is life doesn't work when there are very reasonable steps that can be taken to avoid harm. The Nordics (save Sweden), western Asia, Oceania and even the parts of Europe that were hard hit have all significantly reduced the transmission of the virus and are either at the point were the number of new cases is low enough that they can be effectively traced and isolated or are on their way to that point. In the US, we blew it when the virus first emerged and are blowing it now by squandering all the progress against the virus by reopening.

Accepting COVID 19 as a fact of life is really just another way of saying that you have to accept ineffective and incompetent public health response from our government and the very political decision to reopen the economy before the virus was under control. We should never have to accept that.

trollism wrote:

Good point Wiggo.

If those stupid libs hadn't done all that tested, your 'no more than 2600 cases' prediction could have been spot on.

two thousand...two million.......

now we're splitting hairs.

he got the first half right.

Easy there champ. We still have > 20,000 new cases/day which is still the most in the world.