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Can't view the article in the tweet, but we had an article posted here a few days ago saying that yeah, the current strain going around is more contagious.
The good news at least is that it doesn't seem to be any more deadly. And I suppose if the US wants to speed run it any way, the virus seems willing to help!
Isn't that also supposed to be the main one that circulated in Europe and most of the US?
Yes, this is the same virus we've always had in Europe/U.S., it's just been more solidly confirmed recently that it is more contagious than the Wuhan strain, though not noticeably deadlier.
But news sites and doom-tweeters are picking up the "new" information and phrasing it like it's become more contagious in the past week or two, because they're either recklessly misconstruing it or going for panic clicks. Or whynotboth.gif
But news sites and doom-tweeters are picking up the "new" information and phrasing it like it's become more contagious in the past week or two, because they're either recklessly misconstruing it or going for panic clicks. Or whynotboth.gif
Pretty darn good besides the deaths. Is that all of NYS or just the city?
That's all of NYS and 2 weeks after reopening and a month after protests began. This is pretty encouraging.
Yeah if we make it to August without any spike. It's smooth sailing for awhile.
NY's been flat/wobbly for a couple of weeks now, it's kind of hard to tell what it's doing, although it's clear we haven't surged again. This is a weekend number but still a pretty normal number of tests. And then the other day we had the most daily cases in a few weeks and a high-ish positivity rate. Stalling is better than rising, certainly. Wish we could drop by half again though.
NY / NYC has counted a few thousand probable COVID deaths. I don't think the "excess pneumonia" thing is something to really look at, it seems like a lot of murky misconstrued data reading.
This is not to say COVID deaths aren't undercounted. They are probably significantly undercounted. But the "excess pneumonia" feels like bad data to use.
I don't bother with that. I only deal with the hard data we do have not trying to tease out suspected malfeasance from other data sets. Hospitalizations are the main metric I use. If the hospitals are close to empty then things are stable right now.
I know what you mean. Wish it would just go away lol. With things reopening I think we can't expect it to get much lower than what it's at now. Atleast until a proven treatment or a vaccine shows up.
I also wish NY made it's new hospitalizations visible. I know they have it, Cuomo showed it sometimes in the updates. At this point we've had 600-900 daily cases for weeks. We must have a decent picture of what the real hospitalization rate is.
Well, NYC shows its own, but I think there's significant city/state discrepancies and too much to extrapolate. (It seems high if I ballpark estimate it.)
Well, NYC shows its own, but I think there's significant city/state discrepancies and too much to extrapolate. (It seems high if I ballpark estimate it.)
I knew it was airborne. That shit must have been lingering in my apts' hallway for at least an hour when I got it.
Reminder: this mutation is the one that devasted Europe and New York.
Looks like most of the country is progressing well towards their new normal. South Dakota, West Virginia and the Northeast are slacking.
NJ Daily Numbers:
+398 new cases (173402 total)
+23 deaths (13355 total)
Significant drop in hospitalizations. Hard to tell if it's because of the holiday weekend or not. It would be nice to keep this as low as possible heading in to schools reopening in 2 months.
917 in hospitals
210 in ICU
151 on ventilators
+398 new cases (173402 total)
+23 deaths (13355 total)
Significant drop in hospitalizations. Hard to tell if it's because of the holiday weekend or not. It would be nice to keep this as low as possible heading in to schools reopening in 2 months.
917 in hospitals
210 in ICU
151 on ventilators
i would love to build a wall. just not in the place trump wants it.
Yeah, that's concurrent hospitalizations though (and it might be a rolling average, too). Which is the most important, but I'm talking about new admissions per day--you can only get the net number from concurrent hospitalizations.
COVID-19
forward.ny.gov
Jesus Christ...
Take care, everyone. Wear a mask. Social distance.
I've lost all hope that it's going to get better in the US. There is almost no leader in this country at any level who is willing to do what it would take to tackle this thing without compromise.
Even if all the sudden everyone magically started perfect mask wearing of their own accord it feels like it won't make much difference if we otherwise go about our daily business. We are so obsessed with the mask "debate" without even worrying about the myriad of other ways it will spread.
Even if all the sudden everyone magically started perfect mask wearing of their own accord it feels like it won't make much difference if we otherwise go about our daily business. We are so obsessed with the mask "debate" without even worrying about the myriad of other ways it will spread.
Is there an Unemployment thread or OT? I swear someone started one for the pandemic assistance, but I couldnt find one using the search.
Theres something going on with unemployment in multiple states that wont allow people to file their weekly claim this week. Not sure whats going on, but man its already such a pain the ass just to get your application in, if I have to go through that all over again. Especially with only 3 weeks or so left.
EDIT: I found this on Reddit regarding what may be going on with people's benefits for this week:
I'm not sure if this will help any of y'all but in Alabama right now they are redetermining claims with the year end date of 7/4/20 as required by law they have to redetermine eligibility of pua claimants every quarter. & since they have started a lot of people's trackers are showing theirs is ended and needing to refill a claim but adol says not to that it will automatically roll over and determine eligibility and they say it shouldn't break any claims so hopefully we still get paid as normal.
Says its for Alabama, but Im assuming other states are going through the same.
Theres something going on with unemployment in multiple states that wont allow people to file their weekly claim this week. Not sure whats going on, but man its already such a pain the ass just to get your application in, if I have to go through that all over again. Especially with only 3 weeks or so left.
EDIT: I found this on Reddit regarding what may be going on with people's benefits for this week:
I'm not sure if this will help any of y'all but in Alabama right now they are redetermining claims with the year end date of 7/4/20 as required by law they have to redetermine eligibility of pua claimants every quarter. & since they have started a lot of people's trackers are showing theirs is ended and needing to refill a claim but adol says not to that it will automatically roll over and determine eligibility and they say it shouldn't break any claims so hopefully we still get paid as normal.
Says its for Alabama, but Im assuming other states are going through the same.
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I thought we would see a bigger dip today due to the 4th but we are already at 28k with most states not reporting yet
Chile Update July 5th
+ 3.685 new positives, 295.532 total, 330.183 with probable cases
+ 116 new deaths,
- Daily positivity is 20,5%, 25,0% overall. A slight improvement.
We are still among the most affected countries in the world by the pandemic, but things seems to be stabilizing.
We expect a lot of talks about reopening to start now. Government is hiring to start a "safe reopening campaign" for the State workers (state offices and such). Budget is 130.000.000 Chilean Pesos, or 432 minimum wages, to do a communication campaign on reopening state services. This would be the second time they are attempting this.
+ 3.685 new positives, 295.532 total, 330.183 with probable cases
+ 116 new deaths,
- 6.308 total by government numbers
- 6.888 total by the counting of DEIS (Health Information and Statistics Department)
- 9.734 total with probable cases (every symptom, no PCR performed)
- Daily positivity is 20,5%, 25,0% overall. A slight improvement.
We are still among the most affected countries in the world by the pandemic, but things seems to be stabilizing.
We expect a lot of talks about reopening to start now. Government is hiring to start a "safe reopening campaign" for the State workers (state offices and such). Budget is 130.000.000 Chilean Pesos, or 432 minimum wages, to do a communication campaign on reopening state services. This would be the second time they are attempting this.
We had so much time to set up drive thru testing and tracing like South Korea did, but what happened? Jack shit, testing is backed up and I won't get my results for 7-10 days. I hate this country so much.
The US gave up weeks ago. Weak leadership will do that to you.
Pennsylvania had a chance to be in the Yellow and potentially green for progress, but nope. Gotta open up our state.
Fucking idiots.
Fucking idiots.
It seemed ppl stopped caring as well. Where's Trump? He's basically ignoring this.
A lot of the US still hold confederate values so they just threw up the white flag.
It's important to remember that this graphic isn't the same one that has been posted over the past few weeks or shown on news channels. It's a pretty useless graphic because it doesn't show what criteria it is using to categorize each state.
And the dipshits here in non-Chicago Illinois Land are all jerking off over a judge ruling that Pritzker can't use emergency powers to issue public health regulations. So, until this is settled I assume he couldn't lock down again or anything.
LOL.
HIs polls are cratering and many pundits think his weak response to coronavirus is the reason. Yet, he's acting like an ostrich with his head in the sand.
You'd think he do something just for the politics, but the administration is letting the US burn literally.
I'd say what's happened in the U.S. is a lack of initial planning, a poorly thought out push to re-open, people not caring, and leadership failing spectacularly. We're at a point now where the Trump administration's messaging starting next week is supposedly "we need to learn to live with it."
Unfortunately, I don't really think there was ever going to be a solution to people no longer caring. Part of it has to do with the economic situation being as bad as it is in the U.S. People aren't able to pay the bills (this is entirely a failing of the U.S. government, not halting rent, electricity, water payments), and their Trump bucks are out. it turned out 1200 dollars was never going to get anyone very far.
This has resulted in people saying fuck it and trying to return to their normal lives, in part because they have to go back to their jobs and pay the bills. Some are doing it in a way that at least minimizes their chances of getting the virus (wearing masks, social distancing etc), while others are being much more reckless and not even wearing masks.
I spent the longest amount of time outside that I've probably spent since the pandemic started and I was extremely disheartened by the amount of people not wearing masks, not bothering to social distance (I'm in Georgia).
So it's just idk what to say other than for the next few weeks and months, things are looking pretty grim in the U.S.
Tension starting to simmer in BC, Canada about US license plates being spotted around the place, here's a post from the Vancouver subreddit:
www.reddit.com
Basically, people can cross the US/Canada border into Canada if they say they're going to Alaska. Many aren't, and are going on vacation in Canada instead. Understandably, people here don't want them and are starting to react
Reddit - Dive into anything
www.reddit.com
Basically, people can cross the US/Canada border into Canada if they say they're going to Alaska. Many aren't, and are going on vacation in Canada instead. Understandably, people here don't want them and are starting to react
The wealthiest nation in the history of humanity ladies and gentlemen.
That means he actually has to do something!!! God forbid he gets off Twitter/watching TV.
And he knows it's something that he can't win against so it may as well not exist.
I know Baker isn't requiring MA residents who travel to other New England states to quarentine on return or require people from other New England states to quarantine if they visit MA but this worries me as it feels like it doesn't matter how well the northeast is currently handling it seems inevitable that the rising cases in all the other states are going to make their way and ruin all the progress that has been made and cause cases to spike in MA/other states closeby again. Currently scheduled to get my job back the week of August 2nd after being laid off since March but if the rest of the country spiking causes the infection rates in the Northeast to go up again who knows if I'll even end up getting it back =/
As long as the New York tri-state area is under some degree of lockdown (no restaurants/bars open) and has high mask usage than it will act as a firewall for the rest of the NE. I doubt their is a large amount of folks from the worst hit states making their way to New England in droves right now.
Anyone know the link for reporting violations for Illinois. I know for a fucking fact my stupid aunt and that whole family will be parading around after getting back between Illinois and Wisconsin when those idiots should be locked in for 2 god damn weeks.