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06-20-2020, 02:47 PM | #35506 | |
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Location: Texarkana, Texas
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I have yet to see a report touting "DAILY RECORD FOR POSITIVE COVID-19 CASES" that mentions whether it was also a record day for tests administered. |
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06-20-2020, 02:54 PM | #35507 |
Sometimes it's black and white
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: California
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Yes. It's a shame that covid only struck America and there are no other countries that we can look at to see which strategies worked and which didn't.
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06-20-2020, 02:54 PM | #35508 | |
"Think BOOM!"
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06-20-2020, 02:57 PM | #35509 | |
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Location: Olathe, Ks
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As of now we have a total of 2.3m cases As of now we have 1.7m active cases It would be nice to see a breakdown of the total cases on asymptomatic, symptomatic, mild, severe, etc. |
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06-20-2020, 03:04 PM | #35510 |
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Thanks to the increased testing, both in the US and worldwide, it is pretty easy to see the difference in the serious cases compared to the non-serious cases. According to worldometers, serious cases of covid-19 make up about 1% of all current active cases. I can't speak for how many serious cases are in the US, but when there are millions of cases going on worldwide, yet only 1% of them are serious, it just proves that most positive tests really aren't that big of deal. This really shows in the death rate too. I think this has always been the case, but since hospitals were so strict with testing in the beginning, we really couldn't get a feel for it.
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06-20-2020, 03:05 PM | #35511 | |
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Just to be clear, those numbers are out there. And they get reported on. A lot of times people make statements like that and just haven't looked hard enough. That's why people have been concerned about places like Texas and Arizona. They aren't just having more cases, their positive test rates aren't going down... in many cases they're going up. Even more importantly, hospital rates are going up. If more people are getting sick enough to go to the hospital over it, that's what's happening. I don't know how that's a debatable fact. The cases/testing thing doesn't even matter. If there are more people in the hospital with COVID than back in March, then it's pretty safe to guess there's something going on there. |
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06-20-2020, 03:09 PM | #35512 | |
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06-20-2020, 03:12 PM | #35513 |
Life is changing..
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One of the things I've noticed about Missouri is that total number of cases per day seems to be going up, but cumulative % of positive tests has stayed the same or dropped slightly.
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06-20-2020, 03:12 PM | #35514 |
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What? There are plenty of states going in the right direction, and even seeing cases go down. There are other states that are not going in the right direction. That's how it was always going to be.
I don't think that 120,000 deaths later the whole thing was just a big hoax like you do though, no. |
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06-20-2020, 03:13 PM | #35515 |
Life is changing..
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Location: NW Missouri
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It has actually dropped in recent days despite more tests coming back positive. 5.5% currently. At one point we were at like 10%
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06-20-2020, 03:18 PM | #35516 |
New and Improved
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One of the mods needs to change the name of the damn thread to Groundhog Day.
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06-20-2020, 03:20 PM | #35517 |
"Think BOOM!"
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"We're done with the pandemic!!!"
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06-20-2020, 03:21 PM | #35518 | |
Beyond the Rapids
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Location: Langley, VA
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The only measures that really matter are hospital beds in use, ICU beds in use, ventilators in use, etc. |
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06-20-2020, 03:24 PM | #35519 | |
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One can only infer that you picked those two states because of their more lenient approach on re-opening. I thought it necessary to point out that CA who has been rather strict is also having similar problems. Kudos to the closing straw man you threw out there as well. |
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06-20-2020, 03:26 PM | #35520 |
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Yes, those matter but we have clearly moved from deaths to the metrics you mentioned so there is something to say for that.
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