Cases rising or dropping by you?

[JLTraveling]

We're at the back end of it here in New Orleans. We were hit really hard, really early, likely due to Mardi Gras. But we've been locked down tight, and it's worked. Case growth rate in the city is 0.003, for the state it's 0.013. Hospitalizations, ventilator use, and death rate are way down. But we just reopened 2 days ago, and only very cautiously. Our mayor's biggest concern is tourists coming in from hotspots and undoing all of our extremely hard work, so we're taking it really slowly.

 

[elphaba91]

This is in my state (population 6.4 million). After a really significant drop we had an increase over the last couple of weeks due to a cluster in a meat processing facility. There has also been a small cluster linked to McDonalds (with staff at 2 stores plus a delivery driver infected leading to the closure of 12 restaurants). Fortunately community transmission still remains quite low.

 

[dclpluto]

The county I live in is the only county in New Jersey that has doubled cases in the last 30 days. But low compared to most of the state 16 out of 21 counties.

 

[monarchsfan16]

NH has increased testing, so cases are still increasing, but the percent of positive tests has decreased significantly. We have started reopening, but the process is painfully slow because our neighbor state has significantly more cases, and its residents have been proving that they are having difficulty with the "stay home" part of the stay at home order.

 

[mousefan73]

In Germany so far it continues to decline. Our openings started beginning of May. But keep in mind most areas opening means the following:
1. Stores where capacity is controlled. There Are cool ways in which stores do this. Grocery stores will only allow a certain amount of grocery carts to be left out and everyone has to Enter with a cart. If there are no carts then you need to wait. Same thing with smaller stores like clothing stores usually they leave a security chip in a basket by the entrance. If there are no chips need to wait until one is available. In most cases there’s a disinfectant spray to clean the chip for you grab it.
2. Limited school classes with reduced sizes.
3. pick-up food places Past 2 weeks. Last and this week restaurant start for outside dining. My state starts indoor next week.
4. 2 weeks ago hair salons.
5. Museums, zoo parks about 1-2 week open With limited capacity.

keep in mind most of these places revolve around an outdoor setting or if it’s indoors such a shopping or school and museums you are required to wear masks. For dining / schools you wear a mask when you’re walking about, once you are seated you take it off. Example in a restaurant if you need to get up from your table and use the washroom you put your mask back on come back and take it off again to

We are only about 2 1/2 weeks past the start date for most of these openings and so the end of this week and next week will tell if there are any effects. And the real trial will be when we allow indoor seating in restaurants next week. As I said most activities that people do out of their homes is outside so the real test will be what happens when people start going indoors together even with masks that will be interesting to see how much of a difference that makes.

 

[bookwormde]

My home county has the daily infection rate steadily dropping to 0.0065% per day, total cumulative infected are at 0.5% We are still not at the point where the total active cases are dropping,

In contrast a county south om me is flat but at a much higher rate of 0.0170% .Total cumulative infected are at 1.9%

 

[mnrose]

In Germany so far it continues to decline. Our openings started beginning of May. But keep in mind most areas opening means the following:
1. Stores where capacity is controlled. There Are cool ways in which stores do this. Grocery stores will only allow a certain amount of grocery carts to be left out and everyone has to Enter with a cart. If there are no carts then you need to wait. Same thing with smaller stores like clothing stores usually they leave a security chip in a basket by the entrance. If there are no chips need to wait until one is available. In most cases there’s a disinfectant spray to clean the chip for you grab it.
2. Limited school classes with reduced sizes.
3. pick-up food places Past 2 weeks. Last and this week restaurant start for outside dining. My state starts indoor next week.
4. 2 weeks ago hair salons.
5. Museums, zoo parks about 1-2 week open With limited capacity.

keep in mind most of these places revolve around an outdoor setting or if it’s indoors such a shopping or school and museums you are required to wear masks. For dining / schools you wear a mask when you’re walking about, once you are seated you take it off. Example in a restaurant if you need to get up from your table and use the washroom you put your mask back on come back and take it off again to

We are only about 2 1/2 weeks past the start date for most of these openings and so the end of this week and next week will tell if there are any effects. And the real trial will be when we allow indoor seating in restaurants next week. As I said most activities that people do out of their homes is outside so the real test will be what happens when people start going indoors together even with masks that will be interesting to see how much of a difference that makes.

It's been about two weeks since I facetimed my exchange daughter in Berlin. Your post is reminding me to do so again. All these steps for opening make a lot of sense. Hoping it goes well!

 

[mnrose]

Rate of infection seems to be slowing somewhat off the high. Deaths per day seem to be dropping, as do hospitalizations. We are largely still closed down, although have been slowing reopening over the last two weeks. Bars and restaurants, hair salons, churches, schools still closed....and of course these are relatively high risk vectors of transmission. It will be interesting to watch as these begin to reopen starting June 1 (currently scheduled, and widely anticipated to be a "good" date unless something dramatic happens this week).

 

[cabanafrau]

It's finally been on a downward trend in our area for the past couple weeks. Manufacturing started up last week and the auto plants resumed yesterday, so I'm very hopeful all will go very well on that front. So wonderful to have some forward progress at last.

 

[Kimkimba]

Apparently not: Delco now has the region’s highest 14-day rate of COVID cases. It can’t reopen until that falls dramatically

 

[RangerPooh]

We continue to increase, but are no longer the top infected county in the state of TN. As of yesterday there were 3,846 confirmed cases, 85 deaths. Yesterday the state reported an increase of 623 confirmed coronavirus cases and three additional deaths; bringing the numbers statewide to 18,011 confirmed cases and 301 deaths. About half have recovered.

Yet the state including hotspots in Nashville and here in Memphis continue to open. Beginning this weekend gatherings can increase from 10 to 50 people. I expect to hear the numbers increase due to large parties and church services.

 

[CdnCarrie]

We have 26 active cases right now. It’s slowly coming down.
I think we have had about 290 confirmed cases in a population of 1.2 million.
We are on phase one of opening. Next phase won’t be until June.

 

[wenrob]

We seem to average +/- 100 a day through the state. It’s higher in Clark County of course because that’s where all the people are. We had a nice big dip and then it went back to the average which sent people panicking because it looks scary on a graph and you get headlines like “Huge Increase Overnight!!!” The cases will continue to go up because we’re testing a lot more. Overall we are “flattening/lowering.”

 

[Deb & Bill]

We peaked on April 3, but we're still Florida's epicenter.

We've had a steady drop-off, but we get occasional spikes on a particular day about once a week. We're doing a ton of testing, and I think those spikes are just test result backlogs getting cleaned up.

Unfortunately, the Florida Dept of Health is only showing the last month of data in their charts -- which makes the charts pretty meaningless. Our new cases are a fraction of what they were, but the high points are no longer shown on the graphs. The graphs basically show nothing useful.

Miami-Dade County just started today a kinda-sorta, limited, modified little bit of reopening. Lots of restrictions, but businesses are opening and the social distancing and mask wearing compliance seems pretty good. So far, in our county (2.7 million population), we have a little less than 16,000 cases, 2392 hospitalizations, and 566 deaths. Way too many of everything, but a fraction of what many areas up north have had.

All your beach goers are heading to our beaches on the Gulf Coast.

 

[JimMIA]

All your beach goers are heading to our beaches on the Gulf Coast.

My neighbor across the street just camped at Daytona Beach for 3 days -- returned yesterday.

But yeah, I saw where your beaches had been closed because so many Dade and Broward cars came over to your side! A lot of our folks love the Gulf Coast anyway, and if you're not working...why not?

One of our beaches (South Point on South Beach) was opened for a few hours. People were not distancing, so Miami Beach closed it and made people leave. For once, Miami Beach did something right -- they were LONG overdue!

I believe they've now reopened it and people have learned their lesson.

 

[mamamary]

Maryland Increase in cases, hospitalizations dropping and ICU numbers dropped. My county is in phase 1 re-opening as of last Friday.

 

[luvmarypoppins]

Here in Long Island,New York they are dropping so far

 

[eMoneyBug]

Los Angeles County~6K new case per week, steady over last 3-4 weeks, high of 7.3K week ending 4/24.

deaths have been dropping, 354, 327, 302, 291 per week over last 4.

things are looking promising in LA, mayor taking cautious approach so we definitely won’t have regrets about opening up too soon as we seem to be last so far in opening up.

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Honestly things currently look even better in Orange County which Disneyland is part of. 3.2M pop and only 88 total deaths but the stat that does have me worried that OC has opened up faster and residents seem to rebel more is their new cases per week has jumped from 440 to 653 to 764 to 903. I have to think that deaths are going to increase in June and on for OC residents.

 

[okeydokey]

I'm in Florida so it's hard to tell. The state fired the person keeping the database and is hiding information.

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

Our cases are rising, but that is due to more testing, not the exponential numbers we would expect from community spread. Hospitalizations remain low as do deaths. Our county has 500,000 in it; as of today we have 391 cases (183 active, 204 recovered), 36 ever hospitalized and 4 total deaths (2 from the Princess Cruise in March and 2 in early May).