godisney14
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What is the opposite of “more cases because of more testing?”
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Florida is now below 20,000 tests per day in the past 2 days.
In contrast, CA has twice the population of FL, yet CA is doing almost 6x as many daily tests.
That’s not accurate. Today Florida reported 54,571 negative tests with 3,327 positive tests.
186 cases today. I expect we’ll hit a steady state and stay at it until a vaccine comes out. I’m expecting future spikes around holiday gatherings. But it should be manageable.
Not sure this means anything. Early on there were not enough testing centers so testing was getting backed up. As testing increased, so did cases, because those backed up test were performed all at once. Now there ARE enough tests - enough for everyone that wants one and then some. Less testing now just means fewer people to test. and really, I don't understand why positivity rate should have any meaning at all. Say you had a 10% positivity rate. That means 90% of the people tested, came back negative. Why were they even tested in the first place? Should we just round up big groups of people at random and have them all tested? Your positivity rate would plummet - but would that mean anything?What is the opposite of “more cases because of more testing?”
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Florida is now below 20,000 tests per day in the past 2 days.
In contrast, CA has twice the population of FL, yet CA is doing almost 6x as many daily tests.
Isn't it like 110 in the shade there right now? Who goes outside in that heat? Indoor gatherings and cases should go down once everyone can go back outside.I hope so...but I have no faith in people and I think once the weather starts improving here in AZ more people will get together and it will spike some more.
Isn't it like 110 in the shade there right now? Who goes outside in that heat? Indoor gatherings and cases should go down once everyone can go back outside.
I hope so...but I have no faith in people and I think once the weather starts improving here in AZ more people will get together and it will spike some more.
2 confirmed re-infection cases in Europe now as well.It’s difficult for media to report follow-ups on a previous case in the US because that would require good contact tracing and privacy consent by a patient. A really hard “no” for many, if not most, in the US.
There’s nothing to be suspicious of with this latest report from HK because it is based on whole genome resequencing of the same exact patient at two different time points. I’ve been with a company that specializes in one method of WGS. This is definite proof of reinfection. The fact that this was shown to occur in Hong Kong (or any Asian country) is not surprising. And, it happened by chance, since this subject patient probably would not have been investigated had he not flown internationally. Its hard for me to believe that any US lab has collected, sequenced, and stored any one patient’s sample—again due to privacy regulations.
Isn't it like 110 in the shade there right now? Who goes outside in that heat? Indoor gatherings and cases should go down once everyone can go back outside.
But they’ll interact outside. We should improve into winter as the Midwest gets worse.
BUT, as brutally hot as it's been AND with many outdoor activities being cancelled, HAVE people been outside as much as they normally would be?The hopeful argument back in March (when it was still winter for parts of country) was that cases would go down in the summer as people start going out more. The argument now cannot be that case counts should improve going into winter. Colds and viruses are more prevalent during the winter.
The infectious nature of this pandemic has shown it is not seasonal.
BUT, as brutally hot as it's been AND with many outdoor activities being cancelled, HAVE people been outside as much as they normally would be?
BUT, as brutally hot as it's been AND with many outdoor activities being cancelled, HAVE people been outside as much as they normally would be?
But AZ is backwards. People stay in when it gets to 110. Indoors = bad.The hopeful argument back in March (when it was still winter for parts of country) was that cases would go down in the summer as people start going out more. The argument now cannot be that case counts should improve going into winter. Colds and viruses are more prevalent during the winter.
The infectious nature of this pandemic has shown it is not seasonal.
2 confirmed re-infection cases in Europe now as well.
https://news.sky.com/story/coronavi...h-covid-19-for-a-second-time-reports-12056933
But AZ is backwards. People stay in when it gets to 110. Indoors = bad.
But AZ is backwards. People stay in when it gets to 110. Indoors = bad.
Which is why I think we’ll be fine this winter. But I expect the Midwest to see cases go up. IL is already seeing their cases go up.
And the snow birds will bring it with them when they come here.