Coronavirus COVID-19 - Global Health Pandemic #67

[155etta]

I think we should be ready and prepared to go back into lockdown at any time going forward over the next months, jmo.



Yeah I wasn’t going to say it.

Just dropped a bundle at Walmart preparing. In my mask. MOO.

 

[Tillicum]

I keep a 30 day stock of everything. 90 days for prescriptions. And a lot of cash. It's even more imperative now with what looks to be a busy hurricane season, as well.

I'm up to 90 days for everything. I learned the hard way if you get sick, even if it isn't covid, you can't leave to go shopping because it could be covid.

 

[margarita25]

Colorado:

Denver's reopening in jeopardy if COVID-19 numbers keep rising, mayor says

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COVID-19: Worker at King Soopers With Deadly Outbreak Tells All

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Colorado and Denver officials stress importance of masks in keeping COVID-19 increase from spiking

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Coronavirus Pandemic: Mayor Hancock Explains What It Would Take To Rollback Reopening In Denver

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Doctors note new COVID-19 symptoms in young adults | FOX31 Denver

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Crowds grow at Denver airport, but are hiccups ahead?

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Denver paramedic pulls back the curtain on the trauma and burnout healthcare workers face

 

[Lilibet]

Asked for comment on the obstacles states are reporting with testing, a spokesperson for Health and Human Services said, “HHS and FEMA [Federal Emergency Management Agency] send states COVID-19 testing supplies, namely, swabs and transport media -- to each state and territory based on what the state or territory has requested each month."

States need to be allowed to request testing supplies more than once a month! Situations are changing rapidly.

I'd be pretty ticked off if I lived there. Why are they allowing people who don't even live there to come in, dump the virus all over town, then leave when their fun is done?

Regarding Sturgis...it would be impossible to prevent people from showing up on their motorcycles. They gather in towns all around the Black Hills, in addition to Sturgis. They’d have to put up roadblocks, which wouldn’t be allowed. So I think their preparations are the best they can do and hope for the best. If I were local, I’d be staying home!

 

[MimosaMornings]

41 people infected with COVID-19 after family gatherings in Catawba Co.

“She said over 16 days, 41 people in nine different families and eight different workplaces tested positive for COVID-19.

"We just felt like a visual description of what we're seeing related to the spread of COVID-19 would be helpful for the community to better understand how quickly the virus can spread from person to person," McCracken said about publicizing this case study.”
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I don’t think a visual is going to help. JMO

 

[CSIDreamer]

Indiana, US

748 new positive cases
9 new deaths (between 7/3 and 7/9)

While our positives are rising, our deaths are not. It looks like we started trending up 6/27 or so. I'm guessing a few days (3 or so?) and we will see if deaths start trending up as well.

ISDH - Novel Coronavirus: Indiana COVID-19 Dashboard

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[MrX]

We are up to a 14.6% positivity rate in my county. I just spent 4.5 hours in my small office with two clients doing a zoom mediation. Ugh. We were all wearing masks but it worries me. Client was sighing heavily a couple times.

Hopefully more testing will bring that positivity rate back down. I was encouraged to hear the Governor, yesterday, say that he understands the rate is skewed because only sick people are being tested. It will be interesting to see what happens to all of our numbers now that everyday is over 110 degrees. It's our equivalent of Winter, where everyone just stays home because it's too hot to do anything else - our annual nature-induced lock down.

 

[BlueShoe]

RBBM
As I read it, they absolutely did tell them not to ask if they attended a protest. How convenient.

If they did ask the protesters, how would they know if they were telling the truth? I think a number of them would say "no," even if they had been there. I don't see the point of asking this. Much better just to keep accurate information about where outbreaks are occurring and any known recent contacts. If the number of cases were rising dramatically after protests, then we could infer that those protests had an effect. However, New York is still doing well, with or without the protests. At least as far as I can tell. MOO

 

[margarita25]

I agree @margarita25. On every Instacart order I try to add a little to my supplies without hoarding so that I’m always ahead of what I need.

Yes I’m doing the same thing but with a focus on shelf stable and freezer goods. If we can do this now while we have the opportunity, to slowly build, no hoarding, we put less stress on supply chains going forward, a couple extra cans of this and that. With winter, hot soups and stews are more popular. Add the covid situation and the further demand of shelf stable goods and I anticipate some issues. Then if there are more meat shortages, there may be an even higher demand and strain on certain items...

I couldn’t get certain things back in March, still can’t find some of them. Every day I’m on the hunt lol. Walmart Online has bleach and I highly encourage everyone to get a bottle.

 

[Victoria Chambers]

In the UK, kids of essential workers have still been going to school since March I believe and some schools went back in June as I know some teachers who went back. There hasn't been any reports nor problems with those kids of essential workers AFAIK.

My sister is a Junior School teacher and both her school and the school that my children attend will re-open for the new school year in September. I received their school reports today for this year, with barely nothing to report on! Still, very proud of them X

 

[Alice253]

This is where I live. Masks have been mandated for all inside public places and I will say when I went to the grocery store the other day, for the first time ever, everyone was wearing a mask except for a handful. Most I've seen since this began. However, the problems are gatherings outside without masks or social distancing, and I really believe they opened up the bars and restaurants a little too soon. It's to the point I don't even want to go to the grocery store and that's the only place I've been for months now.

KCHD: Knox County flagged by CDC and feds as a COVID-19 hot spot

 

[margarita25]

Glad to know someone is prospering.

That was my first thought

 

[gitana1]

Hopefully more testing will bring that positivity rate back down. I was encouraged to hear the Governor, yesterday, say that he understands the rate is skewed because only sick people are being tested. It will be interesting to see what happens to all of our numbers now that everyday is over 110 degrees. It's our equivalent of Winter, where everyone just stays home because it's too hot to do anything else - our annual nature-induced lock down.

Not only people sick enough to get care are being tested. Those who come into contact with positive people are also being tested. Clearly. Because otherwise there wouldn’t likely be an 85% negativity rate. That many people aren’t feeling ill.

It’s clear the positivity rate is among those being tested and not the population as a whole. But as I have been educated, it’s a good indication of what’s going on in the county. And it’s not great.

 

[CharlestonGal]

Right on schedule.

Mandatory mask order in Tulsa coming next week, mayor says

TULSA, Okla. — An ordinance requiring people to wear masks in public places is coming to Tulsa next week, Mayor G.T. Bynum announced Friday.

Bynum shared his announcement on Facebook after he says Dr. Bruce Dart of the Tulsa Health Department recommended the mandate to protect against the spread of COVID-19.

 

[Lilibet]

Yes I’m doing the same thing but with a focus on shelf stable and freezer goods. If we can do this now while we have the opportunity, to slowly build, no hoarding, we put less stress on supply chains going forward, a couple extra cans of this and that. With winter, hot soups and stews are more popular. Add the covid situation and the further demand of shelf stable goods and I anticipate some issues. Then if there are more meat shortages, there may be an even higher demand and strain on certain items...

I couldn’t get certain things back in March, still can’t find some of them. Every day I’m on the hunt lol. Walmart Online has bleach and I highly encourage everyone to get a bottle.

It sounds like we’re on the same page...a little bit here, a little bit there. I was able to score some bleach today on my Instacart order. Woo hoo!

 

[gitana1]

If they did ask the protesters, how would they know if they were telling the truth? I think a number of them would say "no," even if they had been there. I don't see the point of asking this. Much better just to keep accurate information about where outbreaks are occurring and any known recent contacts. If the number of cases were rising dramatically after protests, then we could infer that those protests had an effect. However, New York is still doing well, with or without the protests. At least as far as I can tell. MOO

True. But I prefer transparency across the board. People need to know the effect of mass gatherings. When people are shouting or chanting or singing...or aren’t. When people are mostly masked, or not.

This is all valuable data for use in research, if nothing else.

So we should at least try to collect as much data as possible.

 

[CharlestonGal]

Not only people sick enough to get care are being tested. Those who come into contact with positive people are also being tested. Clearly. Because otherwise there wouldn’t likely be an 85% negativity rate. That many people aren’t feeling ill.

It’s clear the positivity rate is among those being tested and not the population as a whole. But as I have been educated, it’s a good indication of what’s going on in the county. And it’s not great.

I think no matter how you slice it, +60,000 testing positive every single day is a problem.

 

[gitana1]

I think no matter how you slice it, +60,000 testing positive every single day is a problem.

Its horrible. If 20% of those are sick enough to need medical care, and have more than “mild” symptoms, that’s 12,000 per day. And if 2% die that’s 1200 per day.

That’s a lot on our health care system and economy.

 

[MrX]

Not only people sick enough to get care are being tested. Those who come into contact with positive people are also being tested. Clearly. Because otherwise there wouldn’t likely be an 85% negativity rate. That many people aren’t feeling ill.

It’s clear the positivity rate is among those being tested and not the population as a whole. But as I have been educated, it’s a good indication of what’s going on in the county. And it’s not great.

True. For the first time I am running into people who have tested negative. They sought out tests either due to contact or for their jobs.

The negativity rate still concerns me. The sheer difficulty in getting tested here would seem to imply that the majority of people getting tested are feeling sick. Makes me wonder if the tests aren't accurate, or if there's some other bug that's also floating around. I guess it could also be anxiety, which can mimic these symptoms.

 

[margarita25]

California Will Release Up To 8,000 Prisoners Due To Coronavirus

“More than half of the prisoners could be released this month. The corrections department says it's reviewing the roster of prisoners who have fewer than 180 days left on their sentences; it anticipates roughly 4,800 people could be eligible for release by the end of July.

To be freed, prisoners must meet certain criteria — including that they are not currently incarcerated for domestic violence or other violent crime, and that they won't have to register as sex offenders.”