Muh Muh Muh My Corona (virus)

Hey, remember when the Trumpers tried to hide the federal data on COVID-19 hospitalizations?

Yep, it leaked to the media.

The news came to light this week after someone with insider knowledge reportedly leaked the government’s daily reports on covid-19 hospitalization to NPR. These updates document nationwide trends in hospitalizations of covid-19 patients, highlighting where facilities are reaching capacity or are under stress for lack of beds, ventilators, or other equipment. According to NPR, the reports show that hospital occupancy, ventilator usage, and ICU bed occupancy have been steadily increasing over the month of October, with an Oct. 27 report revealing that all three have shot up by 14%-16% this month.

Hospitals around the metropolitan areas of Atlanta, Minneapolis, and Baltimore appear especially stretched thin, reporting over 80% full capacity for in-patient hospital beds. And the situation’s even worse in cities like Tampa, Birmingham, and New York: facilities there are struggling with 95% ICU capacity and could soon run out of intensive care beds.

While the federal government has gathered this information on a daily basis throughout the pandemic, these stats aren’t shared with the public. A distribution list of these documents reviewed by NPR showed that they only went out to a few dozen staffers from the HHS, CDC, and the National Institutes of Health along with one member of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, Adm. Brett Giroir. I can’t stress enough that these are literally daily health-related updates; that’s an awful lot of data to claim that the public doesn’t need to know.

HHS told NPR that 800 state health officials can access these reports for their own state, but must be granted permission from another state to view its data. The outlet notes that these arbitrary restrictions do a fat lot of good for places where emergency services frequently have to cross state lines, like in Tennessee, which shares its border with eight other states.​

Someone's Leaked Federal Covid-19 Hospitalization Data
Internal Documents Reveal COVID-19 Hospitalization Data The Government Keeps Hidden

 

this is my shocked face

 

This is what Trumpists want.

 

No matter how the vote goes today, lots of folks are still in trouble.

Please visit the Charity Challenge thread, where @doctorquant and I are matching donations to your local charities through the end of the year.

www.sportsjournalists.com/forum/threads/charity-challenge-2020.135226/

 

Switzerland had 21,926 cases on Monday.

That’s the equivalent, in one day, of roughly 840.000 cases in the US. (If my math is right.)

 

So you’re saying the Swiss are neutral on the issue of whether to fight the virus?

 

Link for that figure? When using Google just now, the site I found had 9,000 new cases on Oct. 30. That isn't great, and they're clearly spiking, but the government has also responded by going back into lockdown. Even if we posit that your information is correct, this is essentially their first wave, since its previous peak was about 1,700 in April.

 

John Elway has the bug.

 

Yesterday's tab on Worldometers.

 

That totally sucks. When I was down for the count, although I felt pretty good after the fever broke, I was wondering if something was going to slip up from behind. I guess I still do. I'm back at work, been doing yard work, gone fishing, walk each morning, etc. It's coming up on two weeks since my positive test.