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Post by paisley on May 27, 2020 18:56:36 GMT
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Post by Txsteader on May 27, 2020 19:32:07 GMT
5,414 confirmed cases in my county, 239 deaths.  !!!! Gosh, that seems like a high death count. Harris county, which includes Houston (major metropolitan), has about double your case numbers but only 211 correction: 221 deaths. Are the majority of those deaths in nursing homes?? |
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Post by tabitha on May 28, 2020 1:23:41 GMT
Nothing in my county as far as I know. The other day they hung the governor in effigy in Frankfort.
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Post by themotherhen on May 28, 2020 23:11:59 GMT
5,414 confirmed cases in my county, 239 deaths. !!!! Gosh, that seems like a high death count. Harris county, which includes Houston (major metropolitan), has about double your case numbers but only 211 correction: 221 deaths. Are the majority of those deaths in nursing homes?? I don't know ☹. My Mom said that most of the dead are in high density housing, i.e. the hood. She said that some of the protesters are angry because they say that because they're poor they're more likely to die. But any disease is going to travel faster through a nursing home, due to caregivers spreading it. I remember how hot the masks and PPE were, especially when cleaning up a large or uncooperative resident. Our state is talking about opening up the nursing homes with outdoor visits. |
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Post by paisley on May 29, 2020 0:22:32 GMT
According to Forbes, a venerable business publication, Alaska is hiding its nursing home deaths that are due to COVID-19, the deadly coronavirus that seems to have a special vengeance for the elderly and infirm. Forbes said “the eleven states that thus far have refused to report COVID nursing home deaths—Alaska, Hawaii, Utah, Wyoming, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Kansas, Missouri, Michigan, and Vermont—need to start reporting their death tolls in long-term care facilities. The federal government has instituted such a requirement for nursing home deaths occurring after May 5, but as Ohio teaches us, it is also important to get the data from the previous several months linkOnly it’s not true.
Alaska isn’t reporting its nursing home deaths because none of the 10 who died from conditions related to COVID-19 were nursing home residents. MRAK contacted the State of Alaska and was told that the mistake may have resulted in a misunderstanding and they are reaching out to the publication for a correction.
The story, by columnist and medical analyst Avik Roy, points out that a majority of deaths from COVID-19 in the United States are in nursing or retirement homes.
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Post by Txsteader on Jun 1, 2020 23:43:17 GMT
Yikes. Exactly one week from Memorial Day, our daily new-case number has jumped to 30 today! For some odd reason, 17 of those were in nursing homes (odd because I thought things had slowed down in the nursing homes). It hasn't been that high since early April.
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Post by farmerjack41 on Jun 2, 2020 14:01:46 GMT
276 new cases from Saturday thru Monday. 100 in hospital.
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Post by wildhorseluvr on Jun 2, 2020 15:01:51 GMT
276 new cases from Saturday thru Monday. 100 in hospital. Wow! ☹️ That's scary. |
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Post by Txsteader on Jun 2, 2020 16:42:00 GMT
276 new cases from Saturday thru Monday. 100 in hospital. Are your numbers increasing or decreasing? What state are you in farmerjack41? |
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Post by farmerjack41 on Jun 3, 2020 1:15:22 GMT
South central part of Washington state. Numbers are increasing, they are testing everywhere in the county. Seems like they are setup on every other street corner. Numbers tonight showed highest where the Mexican population is 75% or better and on the reservation. The area where I live has have very few. Large congregation of people and filth do not help the numbers. Our biggest employment is in the agriculture field.
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Post by themotherhen on Jun 3, 2020 1:34:31 GMT
Our case counts aren't consistent from one source to another unfortunately. The cases are going up though, according to most sources.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 3, 2020 12:56:05 GMT
It is inevitable that the numbers go up as testing goes up.
Could be helpful if we continue to focus on the fact that this virus has a minimum 99.5% recovery rate.
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Post by Txsteader on Jun 3, 2020 13:21:29 GMT
It is inevitable that the numbers go up as testing goes up. Could be helpful if we continue to focus on the fact that this virus has a minimum 99.5% recovery rate. Yep, as well as noticing that, in spite of case numbers going up, the death counts are dropping. |
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Post by TxGal on Jun 3, 2020 14:24:11 GMT
Our county's case numbers are increasing daily, but so are the recoveries. They don't tell you that though.
We've been hovering between 9 and 12 ACTIVE cases since March but the headlines read, "XYZ county now has 456 reported cases of covid."
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Post by Deleted on Jun 4, 2020 17:30:42 GMT
Howzabout this?
There have been no new cases of the novel coronavirus among the hundreds who flouted social distancing guidelines and attended pool parties at Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks over Memorial Day weekend, a state health official said this week.
Videos and photos that showed hundreds of partygoers prompted health officials in the state to express concerns that the large gatherings would lead to a surge in cases of COVID-19. Those who attended were urged to self-quarantine and get tested, while officials in St. Louis County — Lake of the Ozarks is a popular getaway for people who live in St. Louis — later issued a travel advisory.
Later, a Missouri man who spent time at one of the pool bars over the holiday weekend was found to be positive for the novel virus, potentially exposing hundreds of others. But on Wednesday, Dr. Randall Williams, director of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, said state health officials are not currently aware of any additional cases linked to the pool parties.
There have been no new cases of the novel coronavirus among the hundreds who flouted social distancing guidelines and attended pool parties at Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks over Memorial Day weekend, a state health official said this week.
“The answer, to our knowledge, is no,” Williams said Wednesday during Missouri Gov. Mike Parson’s daily press briefing, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Meanwhile, Dr. Alex Garza, commander of the St. Louis Metropolitan Pandemic Task Force, expressed cautious optimism, noting officials “will give it a couple more days” to see if any infections linked to the pool parties emerge, he said during the briefing.
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