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Correct you are I am a polygamist. Someone else fired first but I did respond.
I have noticed as well the past week the area I live in went from very few masks to now I see everyone wearing them where needed.
Mandatory in Nassau as well as Duval, not seen anything about Clay.
This says that all 3 Clay County hospitals are at max for ICU. Does this correspond with what your wife is telling you?
Are you saying that positives are overstated. If so aren't negatives also overstated. The number tested would at least be overstated by a factor of 2 and it could be way more as negatives may be tested 2 x per week as in LTC facilities, meat packing plants etc. That would mean positive results are overstated, % positive understated and death rate also way understated as there can only be 1 death for 2 or more positives. Scary!
If I had to attach numbers to your criteria, mind you I didn't get to run any calcs on the data. I would say that positive test are about 25% overstated. Every positive person having to at least take 2-3 tests. From what I gathered, they didn't report on the negative rate. It wasn't part of the infected/death ratio which is how they are running their numbers. I would also say that the death rate is also overstated by about 10-15%. The way that they were determining C19 related deaths is if both flags were flipped to 'Y' for positive and deceased. So there could be other factors within the cause of death other then C19 which there was in about 10% .
Note: Not every deceased took more than one test. Once deemed infected and hospitalized, they usually don't administer a second until you are recovered(from what the local admins were saying).
But I thought that every case required 2 positive tests (nose and throat swab presumably). If the positives are overstated then the death rate almost has to be understated as it's deaths/cases.
At least two, one in the initial screening and one at discharge. However, if the second one came back negative it wouldn't have the same flag. In about 20% the second came back positive and wasn't counted correctly. That was my concern.
Edit: You are correct from an overall view. I was looking at it simply 1 to 1.
Another case record set again today!!
oh wait, that’s not good 🤔
I mean, if you want good news, it was reported today that the latest batch of MLB tests came back with 0.5% positives in over 2,000 tested. Also the death rate, nationally, seems to be plummeting.
Deaths typically lag confirmed cases. Deaths this week in total have been up over the previous week. Next few days will tell a lot.
I'm hoping for good numbers. How about you?
no I only want death and destruction like a good little bedwetting liberal.
cmon man. We all want good news on this thing. I just wish some people were more on board with preventative measures than they present themselves to be.
distance. Wash your hands frequently. Mask up. Still not seeing many people doing that. Until we all do that life is gonna keep going like this.
Yes, the death rate will plummet when cases spike drastically for a disease that takes several weeks to kill. We won't know the true effect on the death rate for another couple weeks when we can tie case outcomes to this latest spike in cases. Given a higher proportion of younger people are being infected than before, I would expect the overall death rate to go down. However, many people are ending up in the hospital with conditions such as pulmonary embolism which can create chronic health issues and reduce quality of life.
edit: posted before seeing Kasey's comment
Catching up...
I think there is some major psychological warfare going on against our people. At first I got it, is this the apocalypse? Well we quickly learned that it wasn't. Some have turned something real into an enormous scam... or hoax if you will. Stop being afraid. Life has risks. Be smart and move forward.
In a normal year these are the leading causes of death in the US. Only a little over halfway through the year COVID-19 would be the 6th leading cause of death for the entire year. At the current pace COVID-19 will be the third leading cause of death in the US for 2020.
This graphic is also misleading as it looks at deaths for the entire world when the response to COVID-19 has varied greatly from country to country with varying levels of success.