Cases rising or dropping by you?

[Jrb1979]

What are your hospitalization and ICU rates?

As of yesterday it was 9% hospitalizations and 2% in ICU. Its the highest since May but not as high as March.

 

[mommasita]

As of yesterday it was 9% hospitalizations and 2% in ICU. Its the highest since May but not as high as March.

Quebec is rising also, 433 in hospital, 67 in ICU. These are rising in small amounts daily, rising nonetheless. When we get the daily breakdown of our hospital ICU, and bed availabiliy, they are almost all ( Montreal area), at or over 100%, as there are sick people for other reasons.

In Montreal we had 876 schools with cases, 640 tests there -96 positives. I’m not sure on the amount, but several had to close with some outbreaks.

We were warned, if nothing changes we will have 1200 plus hospitalized by November. We will overwhelm the system.




ETA: chilly in Montreal, frost last night . But 21 tomorrow, then cold again.

 

[ronandannette]

As of yesterday it was 9% hospitalizations and 2% in ICU. Its the highest since May but not as high as March.

Wow - that is an alarmingly high hospitalization rate, Here it is a hair under 4% = 77 people and that included 36 people that were already in a large Calgay hospital receiving acute care for other issues when they contracted Covid inside the hospital. Well, 26 now because sadly 10 of the patients that contracted Covid from the hospital outbreak have died in the past 2 weeks. We await coroners decisions on whether the deaths will be classified as being from Covid or with Covid.

 

[leebee]

It's starting to rise here in Maine. That's very defeating; we, along with Vermont, have been the states with the "best" virus stats in the whole country. We are still in decent shape, but we've just gone to level 4 (meaning starting in Nov. I can sit at the bar in my favorite taproom!) and I'd like to stay there for awhile.

 

[EACarlson]

There are two hospitals in my city, three in my county. One of the three is completely full and sending patients to the other one. I also read a report that only 25 percent of those admissions were COVID Patients. Not good whatever the reason.

This is a local news report of how the University three blocks from me is testing their students, while being watched by the CDC. https://www.wbay.com/2020/10/08/cdc-studying-uw-oshkoshs-use-of-covid-19-antigen-testing/

Yesterday I was told that my boss has COVID, her boss is waiting for test results on quarantine and the president of the company had it last month.

 

[Pyotr]

It looks like Wisconsin has become ground zero. Like I said in a previous post, it’s going through my family pretty bad right now. My cousin went from wearing a mask to get her mail to catching COVID in a matter of months.

 

[EACarlson]

It looks like Wisconsin has become ground zero. Like I said in a previous post, it’s going through my family pretty bad right now. My cousin went from wearing a mask to get her mail to catching COVID in a matter of months.

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Not just Wisconsin, specifically Northeastern Wisconsin. Numbers 1,3,4,8,11,13, and 17 are all in about a 40 mile radius. I think there are a couple of factors. First, the number of people that drink at bars in this area, if you look at the list of cities that drink the most, those cities are on it. The number of people I see at bars here in Oshkosh is staggering to me, including those that want more government regulation. Second, fatigue. This area was only hit in the first wave at a few industrial locations, meat packing plants, boat engine manufacturers, foundries and the paper factories working overtime to replace all the TP everyone was hoarding. Now that we are on month 7 of "two weeks to flatten the curve," people are not doing what they can to protect themselves and others. I've become an absolute hermit in the last couple months. I walk around the neighborhood, otherwise it's been home, work and maybe a stop at the grocery store on the way home.

I'll be interested to see if the Governor's order to reduce bar and restaurant capacity to 25% does anything in the next 10 days or so, although I see Milwaukee has already said they will not be enforcing it, only their own restrictions.

 

[mantysk8coach]

A Facebook friend of mine that lives in Oshkosh wants to have T-shirts made that say “COVID-19 National Champions 2020”

I promise he’s not a horrible person, and is very Covid aware. Just a part-time stand up comedian with a dark sense of humor trying to get through this like we all are.

I’m in Manitowoc....11th in the nation. Fingers crossed that WI peaks and starts dropping soon.

 

[Pyotr]

No Florida report today. Helix Lab dumped 400,000 duplicate tests so the report will be delayed by a day.

 

[Pyotr]

Not just Wisconsin, specifically Northeastern Wisconsin. Numbers 1,3,4,8,11,13, and 17 are all in about a 40 mile radius. I think there are a couple of factors. First, the number of people that drink at bars in this area, if you look at the list of cities that drink the most, those cities are on it. The number of people I see at bars here in Oshkosh is staggering to me, including those that want more government regulation. Second, fatigue. This area was only hit in the first wave at a few industrial locations, meat packing plants, boat engine manufacturers, foundries and the paper factories working overtime to replace all the TP everyone was hoarding. Now that we are on month 7 of "two weeks to flatten the curve," people are not doing what they can to protect themselves and others. I've become an absolute hermit in the last couple months. I walk around the neighborhood, otherwise it's been home, work and maybe a stop at the grocery store on the way home.

I'll be interested to see if the Governor's order to reduce bar and restaurant capacity to 25% does anything in the next 10 days or so, although I see Milwaukee has already said they will not be enforcing it, only their own restrictions.

Why is Milwaukee not enforcing it? I spent 8 years living in Milwaukee’s East Side and the city is fairly left leaning. I figured they would have everything shut down.

 

[LilyWDW]

Indiana posted a new 1 day record of new positive cases. 1,945. This broke the record set on... Friday.

Yet the governor still wants to open back up fully. I understand the need to get people back to work. The unemployment and the number of businesses disappearing is a crisis in upon itself. But it has be done safely and we have to be willing to react correctly to situations like this.

 

[charlie.nj]

N.J. reports 901 more COVID-19 cases, 7 more deaths. Hospitalizations, transmission rate both dip
Updated 1:57 PM; Today 1:40 PM (10/10/2020)

New Jersey, an early coronavirus epicenter, has reported a total of 212,877 COVID-19 cases out of more than 3.91 million tests administered in the more than seven months since the state announced its first positive test March 4. That’s the ninth most cases among American states.

The state of 9 million people has reported 16,171 deaths attributed to the virus in that time — 14,383 lab-confirmed and 1,788 considered probable. New Jersey’s death toll is the fourth highest in the U.S., after New York, Texas, and California. The Garden State has the nation’s highest COVID-19 death rate per 100,000 residents.

Broken down by age, those 30 to 49 years old make up the largest percentage of New Jersey residents that have caught the virus (30.9%), followed by those 50-64 (26.2%), 18-29 (16.8%), 65-79 (13%), 80 and older (8.9%), 5-17 (3.4%), and 0-4 (0.7%).

On average, the virus has been more deadly for older residents, especially those with pre-existing conditions. Nearly half the state’s COVID-19 deaths have been of residents 80 and older (47.1%), followed by those 65-79 (32.2%), 50-64 (15.9%), 30-49 (4.3%), 18-25 (0.4%), 5-17 (0%), and 0-4 (0.02%).

At least 7,176 of the state’s COVID-19 deaths have been of residents and staff members at nursing homes and other long-term care facilities.


https://www.nj.com/coronavirus/2020...pitalizations-transmission-rate-both-dip.html

 

[EACarlson]

A Facebook friend of mine that lives in Oshkosh wants to have T-shirts made that say “COVID-19 National Champions 2020”

I promise he’s not a horrible person, and is very Covid aware. Just a part-time stand up comedian with a dark sense of humor trying to get through this like we all are.

I’m in Manitowoc....11th in the nation. Fingers crossed that WI peaks and starts dropping soon.

If they do let me know. I would take a few.

Why is Milwaukee not enforcing it? I spent 8 years living in Milwaukee’s East Side and the city is fairly left leaning. I figured they would have everything shut down.

There is a loophole if the locality wants to put in place more onerous restrictions. Milwaukee is saying that their requirement to have a city approved COVID plan trumps the state limits.

 

[Disneytrippin']

I live in Idaho. People aren't exactly being strict about the mask wearing and some stores don't even enforce it. A major theme park here was open this summer and when we went almost no one was wearing a mask. The park wasn't very strict about cleaning and some hand sanitizers were empty when the park opened. The ride attendees were not all cleaning in between riders. The train ride didn't follow social distancing and was packed. Even though they stated they were cashless they still had "bank robbers" jump on the train and "rob" people of their cash for charity.

There has not been an increase in cases even with all of this. The entire state is in Stage 4 the last stage.

 

[RamblingMad]

The number of cases per day are going to the moon. It's mostly kids until they spread it to the elderly over Thanksgiving and Christmas. I hope families take the appropriate actions to keep each other safe.

 

[Kitty 34]

It looks like Wisconsin has become ground zero. Like I said in a previous post, it’s going through my family pretty bad right now. My cousin went from wearing a mask to get her mail to catching COVID in a matter of months.

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So what did she do differently from the bolded statement, that obviously put her in harm's way???

 

[NFLDERS]

Rising here in Niagara, and I see a probable return to Stage 2 very soon.

 

[Jrb1979]

Rising here in Niagara, and I see a probable return to Stage 2 very soon.

Unfortunately all of Ontario will be back in stage 2 soon. I live in Niagara and too many people don't care.

 

[quandrea]

Unfortunately all of Ontario will be back in stage 2 soon. I live in Niagara and too many people don't care.

Agreed. Interesting article on cbc today. I remember my friend and I (both scientists), discussing back in August that the R0 value had climbed above one. We knew this was coming. Action has been too slow and I fear what the coming months will bring. Too many people don’t care as you say.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-covid-19-restrictions-1.5758025

 

[Pyotr]

So what did she do differently from the bolded statement, that obviously put her in harm's way???

Her teen daughter caught it socializing and brought it home.