Cases rising or dropping by you?

[Pea-n-Me]

There is a lot of anger out there. I don’t think we should be attacking one another here.

I didn’t take @ronandannette’s comments about her part of the world as anything but that. (Nor is this a slam of @quandrea.) I’m pretty sure that was what this thread was supposed to be about, was it not?

How is the news in your neck of the woods?

 

[Pyotr]

My county has been pretty consistent in the 30s the past month or so. During peak in July it was normal to be 300 - 400 cases a day. Two weeks into phase 3 and there has been no increase of cases.

 

[piglet1979]

Ohio has been a bit of a roller coaster. We were high at the beginning, started to get better and let our guard down in July and now we are back up. We are now at about 1500 cases a day and rising. The is talks of one county going purple (our color coded chart. Purple is the worst) which means they will go on some type of lock down again. Maybe not as bad as back in April. We will get more info today at the press conference. This will be the first county to go purple so we are unsure what it all really means. My county at one point was the second highest color (red) with an * which means we had 2 weeks to get it together before being purple in early August. We avoided it and made it to orange (second lowest color) but are inching back to red.

 

[Jrb1979]

Cases are rising big here in Ontario. We just set a record for most cases in one day at 797. Yes they are testing more but it's still not good seeing numbers rise. They are telling families to scrap Thanksgiving plans for this weekend and keep it to immediate family. They are finding that the majority of cases are coming from private functions where people aren't wearing masks. They don't want to shutdown the economy again.

IMO the only way to slow the spread outside of social distancing and wearing masks is to drill into people that IF YOU ARE SICK STAY HOME. There was a wedding where 40 cases can be traced back to and a BBQ this summer, the same thing happened.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

Wisconsin is activating the field hospital that was set up back in March but hadn’t been used until this point. Need I say more? 7 months into the pandemic and we’re the worst we’ve been.

Note that my like is for your post, not for Wisconsin being the worst it has ever been. It's always hard for know whether to thumbs up these types of posts for the poster posting them or put the frown on for the information contained therein. Of course no matter which I do someone will get on my case. How DARE YOU THUMBS UP the poor people of Wisconsin getting it or How DARE YOU FROWN THAT INFORMATIVE POST!!!

Anyway my neck of the woods is a lot like the country as a whole. We started going down from the boom in cases but then instead of going down further we have plateaued at an unacceptable level of new cases, hospitalizations and deaths and we're stuck there for the moment.

 

[piglet1979]

At Ohio's press conference today, the one county that looked like they were going to go to purple did not but we do have many more counties that turned red or orange. We are over 1500 new cases in the 24 hours.

 

[Pyotr]

Florida reported 171 deaths today. Only 15 are from October. July had 47 and August had 73.

I am trying to find a credible source of how Florida is reporting deaths. A 3 month lag just seems unacceptable.

 

[piglet1979]

Florida reported 171 deaths today. Only 15 are from October. July had 47 and August had 73.

I am trying to find a credible source of how Florida is reporting deaths. A 3 month lag just seems unacceptable.

There is a lag in Ohio as well. I think I read somewhere that the coroner has 3 months to determine/file the cause of death. We had a like this last August or early September.

 

[mantysk8coach]

New record in WI today....3100+ cases. And no end in sight.

 

[*DisneyDreamer]

New record in WI today....3100+ cases. And no end in sight.

It’s so depressing. I can’t begin to imagine how bad it’s going to get once it really starts getting into the cold months.

 

[*DisneyDreamer]

Note that my like is for your post, not for Wisconsin being the worst it has ever been. It's always hard for know whether to thumbs up these types of posts for the poster posting them or put the frown on for the information contained therein. Of course no matter which I do someone will get on my case. How DARE YOU THUMBS UP the poor people of Wisconsin getting it or How DARE YOU FROWN THAT INFORMATIVE POST!!!

Anyway my neck of the woods is a lot like the country as a whole. We started down but then we've plateaued at an unacceptable level of new cases, hospitalizations and deaths and we're stuck there for the moment.

Haha, I get it!

 

[BlueStarryHat]

New Jersey has seen a huge spike and we are warned about a second wave coming.

 

[Colleen27]

New Jersey has seen a huge spike and we are warned about a second wave coming.

Is that a local issue, or are they really using phrases like "huge spike" for the gradually increasing rates that are still less than 1/4 of what they were at the March/April peak? My data shows around 700 cases per day for NJ, population ~9mil. That's a rise but hardly seems to justify being called a spike, much less a huge one.

I hate all the sloppy and often fear mongering language that the media is using to talk about the pandemic. Wisconsin is experiencing a huge spike - 12 cases per 100K at the start of Sept., 43 cases per 100K at the start of Oct. New Jersey, on the other hand, had 4 cases per 100K a month ago and 7 cases per 100K now. But the media will use the same words to describe both trends because "huge spike" "braces for second wave" and other bad news make for the best social shares.

 

[bavaria]

Surge, spike, soaring, should all be banned terms. My favourite is 'deaths continue to rise!' Well, of course they do. Unless we have a great resurrection, deaths will always increase.

 

[chickapin parterre]

Yuma, mexico border has it two news anchors at the same desk now , weatherman is back and the level has lowered to even more open space....which allows for zombies to now run in the marathon ...."over a ton of people" ...not sure about that word choice....entry fee is $30.00...which is what I paid in oregon for all you can eat dungness crab.....Goodwill is now the only retail space cleaning carts and surfaces...though shopping experience is not social distancing.

 

[BlueStarryHat]

Is that a local issue, or are they really using phrases like "huge spike" for the gradually increasing rates that are still less than 1/4 of what they were at the March/April peak? My data shows around 700 cases per day for NJ, population ~9mil. That's a rise but hardly seems to justify being called a spike, much less a huge one.

It was on the website of 6ABC, one of Philadelphia's local stations. I just went and read it again, and I must apologize for putting the word "huge" in front of "spike." "Spike" is indeed in the headline, huge is not; I must have imagined it. I want to be the last person to spread wrong information, and here I am posting without fact-checking beforehand. I'm not a Covidiot, I promise.

 

[HeatherC]

Is that a local issue, or are they really using phrases like "huge spike" for the gradually increasing rates that are still less than 1/4 of what they were at the March/April peak? My data shows around 700 cases per day for NJ, population ~9mil. That's a rise but hardly seems to justify being called a spike, much less a huge one.

I hate all the sloppy and often fear mongering language that the media is using to talk about the pandemic. Wisconsin is experiencing a huge spike - 12 cases per 100K at the start of Sept., 43 cases per 100K at the start of Oct. New Jersey, on the other hand, had 4 cases per 100K a month ago and 7 cases per 100K now. But the media will use the same words to describe both trends because "huge spike" "braces for second wave" and other bad news make for the best social shares.

https://www.cnn.com/world/live-news...08-20-intl/h_19c040f65a28849d81bb645afe25ab3c
NJ is spiking..highest number of cases since May.

 

[bavaria]

I'm fairly sure tracing isn't all it could be and I also find it curious that no cases (or very few) are being attributed to restaurants, airplanes, mass transit and what-have-you.

“The risk of a passenger contracting COVID-19 while onboard appears very low. With only 44 identified potential cases of flight-related transmission among 1.2 billion travelers, that’s one case for every 27 million travelers,” said Dr. David Powell, IATA’s Medical Advisor. “We recognize that this may be an underestimate but even if 90 per cent of the cases were unreported, it would be one case for every 2.7 million travelers. We think these figures are extremely reassuring. Furthermore, the vast majority of published cases occurred before the wearing of face coverings inflight became widespread.”

https://www.skiesmag.com/press-releases/iata-low-risk-for-covid-19-transmission-inflight/

 

[Farro]

I was surprised by this! 20% Chicagoans have antibodies.


https://news.yahoo.com/researchers-surprised-20-chicagoans-blood-101900925.html

 

[bavaria]

I was surprised by this! 20% Chicagoans have antibodies.


https://news.yahoo.com/researchers-surprised-20-chicagoans-blood-101900925.html

I really think that this ties to the fact that testing was very low in Q1 and even into Q2 in many countries. Also, the virus was around in 2019, just not identified. Combine that with more recent studies about how many people are asymptomatic and remain so, yet test positive, and it is clear that this is not the same situation that caused the extreme reactions back in March.