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Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Twirling Time, Jan 21, 2020.

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  1. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    Nothing but nothing is voluntary for students at Liberty.
     
    Michael_ Gee, Mar 29, 2020
    #3865
  2. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Just came back from the nearby park. You'd think it was just another sunny early spring day here in the Rockies. Sure, lots of people walking dogs, running, biking. All allowed. But people walking together, not 6 feet apart. People on a blanket sunning themselves, reading books. Saw two picnics. Oh, and yes, the smell of marijuana.
     
    MileHigh, Mar 29, 2020
    #3866
  3. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    tapintoamerica, Mar 29, 2020
    #3867
  4. doctorquant

    doctorquant Well-Known Member

    doctorquant, Mar 29, 2020
    #3868
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  5. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    Not sure if this is the same everywhere, but our state lists the cases by county of residence. So if you go to the hospital in Podunk County, but live in Shelbyville County, it counts as a case in Shelbyville and not Podunk.
    That method caused some local consternation this week. We had an inmate who has been in Podunk for at least two months and contracted the virus in a hospital ward here. But since he lives in Shelbyville, it still went against their total and left Podunk as one of the last holdouts in the state without a confirmed case.
     
    Batman, Mar 29, 2020
    #3869
  6. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Colorado numbers today. Granted, it's Sunday, but I think they are staying on top of things.

    2,307 cases (12 percent increase)
    326 hospitalized (19 percent increase)
    Percentage of hospitalized at 14.1 percent (up from 13.3 percent)
    Number of tests at 14,470 (plus 1,194)
    Percentage of those tested who came back positive at 15.9 percent (up from 15.5 percent)
    47 deaths (plus 3)
    10 outbreaks at residential and non-hospital health care facilities (no change)

    Some takeaways:

    -- The number of cases is the smallest one-day percentage increase since the very early days of reporting. For the second time in three days, the number of cases decreased from the previous day. The rate of cases doubling every three days has decreased for the third consecutive day.
    -- Hospitalizations are up after a lull on Saturday, but the rate of doubling decreased for a second consecutive days and is at more than three days.
    -- Testing. Another solid number. Fourth consecutive day and five of the past six with at least 1,194 tests. We are now at 44 percent of all tests having been done in the past four days.
    -- Deaths. This one, happily, surprised me. Smallest one-day increase since Monday. Still, we are up more than 800 percent from a week ago (5 last Sunday, 47 today).

    Nothing shows things stabilizing in this neck of the woods. Yet. Need more days of decreases in the percentages of increase as well as numbers fewer than the day before. Still some fluctuations. But the number of tests increasing continues to be encouraging.
     
    MileHigh, Mar 29, 2020
    #3870
  7. 2muchcoffeeman

    2muchcoffeeman Well-Known Member

    This is the week that the shit hits the fan
     
    2muchcoffeeman, Mar 29, 2020
    #3871
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  8. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Good question. Only the number of counties with cases (and the total) is reported here. Twenty of the 64 counties here have reported zero cases, mostly rural areas.
     
    MileHigh, Mar 29, 2020
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  9. MileHigh

    MileHigh Moderator Staff Member

    Wasn't in Monday morning when the Surgeon General said it was going to be this past week?
     
    MileHigh, Mar 29, 2020
    #3873
  10. DanOregon

    DanOregon Well-Known Member

    DanOregon, Mar 29, 2020
    #3874
  11. tapintoamerica

    tapintoamerica Well-Known Member

    Along those lines, some states list "Unknown" as the county.
    It seems the deeper you try to drill in this thing, the harder it becomes to find consistency. I suppose this is logical, but you'd think states would have agreed-upon procedures for these things. We learn as we go.
     
    tapintoamerica, Mar 29, 2020
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  12. Batman

    Batman Well-Known Member

    We only have 6 of 82 counties in Mississippi reporting zero cases now (including one rural county that only has about 1,300 people in it), but 49 counties are still in single digits. About 100 cases in South Mississippi might include some bleed-over from New Orleans.

    Oddly, a lot of the counties along the Mississippi River in Louisiana and Mississippi are very low in case count. Mississippi has 73 cases in 10 river counties from the Louisiana state line to just south of Memphis. The county that borders Memphis has 71 cases by itself. North of Baton Rouge, Louisiana has six parishes that touch the river and a total of eight cases in them. Two parishes have not reported a case yet, and two others have only reported one each. Not sure if that's because those areas are rural, or they're not testing as much as other places, or if there's some other reason for it.
     
    Batman, Mar 29, 2020
    #3876
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