Coronavirus Thread

[bronco]

So My cousin who was tested Tuesday Morning just got his results back and he is negative. He was pretty stressed all week so he is relieved and he can go back to work now.

He is only the 3rd person I know to get tested and all have been negative. 75,000 cases in a small state and I still don't know anyone with it.
That sort of implies others here might know multiple people with it as within Mass its not exactly evenly distributed. Brockton and Chelsea being two places loaded with cases , my town supposedly has 150 but we do have a few nursing homes so they may be clustered within those.

[volvolugnut]

Glad to hear the test was negative.
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[volvolugnut]

More statistics on US states and COVID-19 growth rates. My raw information is from Worldometer. Any errors or misrepresentations are my own.

These tables show all available US states and territories and the COVID-19 data for the last 5 days. I have sorted the states alphabetically and added growth rates for last several days for all states with ranking of each day. Of course, this information changes daily. I have presented the table in two parts because of the screen shot, but it is actually one table in Excel.

Again, results change daily.

State growth rates for May 8, 2020. All information is based on reported information and actual results may be different.

For your information, the top 5 states or territories yesterday in growth rate (the worst containment) are: South Dakota (0.283) with 3144 cases, US Virgin Islands (0.250) with 68 cases, Minnesota (0.204) with 10,088 cases, South Carolina (0.116) with 7367 cases, and Puerto Rico (0.106) with 2156 cases. States in Bold have reopened to various levels.

South Dakota has made the worst five and doubling growth rate lists the last two days. The state has relatively few cases.

The best 10 states in growth rate yesterday were: Guam, Hawaii, Florida, New Jersey, New York, Washington, Georgia, Vermont, Connecticut, and Louisiana.

Worldometer https://www.worldometers.info/coronavir ... rus-cases/ has started to add state curve information to their website.

A column on the right shows the current growth rate divided by the 5 day moving average. Montana, South Dakota, and US Virgin Islands yesterday were over 2.00.

My calculated growth rate for USA is 0.0291 for yesterday, down from previous day of 0.0303. This is not population or case number weighted.

We are in a critical time now as some states start to loosen restrictions. Continue to do your part to stay healthy and keep virus spread down.

Stay safe out there. Keep your family close and others at a distance.

volvolugnut

[Phainein7]

so they may be clustered within those

I didn't memorize your state's details, but they listed nursing homes....most positives here are cluster related.
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Nebraska - Gov. Pete Ricketts announced that state health workers will no longer
be able to report COVID-19 data from meat processors
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Gov. Pete Ricketts said Wednesday that the state won't be releasing
specific numbers of cases at meatpacking plants, saying it's a matter
of privacy.
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Katie Miller (@VPPressSec), seen here chitchatting with members of the
press yesterday(!), tested positive today for COVID.

Oh. She's the one without the mask. Right there on the right.
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How common are these rashes?

It's well known that some viral illnesses, such as chickenpox, measles
and hand, foot and mouth disease, can cause rashes. But virus-related
rashes are more typically seen in children, Shinkai said. "That's why
it's much more striking" to see numerous reports of rashes in adult
patients with COVID-19, she said.

Exactly how common the rashes are remains unclear. In one early study
of more than 1,000 COVID-19 patients in China, published Feb. 28 in
the New England Journal of Medicine, rashes were noted in only 0.2% of
patients. However, in a more recent study of about 150 hospitalized
COVID-19 patients in Italy, rashes were found in 20% of patients. The
latter study, published March 26 in the Journal of the European
Academy of Dermatology and Venereology, was conducted by
dermatologists, who "are going to be able to detect more subtle skin
changes" than doctors in other specialities, Shinkai said.
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The big, ugly paradox hovering over Trump's latest deceptions
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"Without a credible plan to address the public health crisis, tell me
how consumers start buying cars, small businesses sign leases &
employers start hiring?"
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Investor note from MoffettNathanson research indicates that COVID-19
is causing a major acceleration in TV cord cutting.

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California Gov. Newsom: State identified nail salons as source of
coronavirus community spread

California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) on Thursday said that the state's
first case of community spread in the coronavirus pandemic happened in
a nail salon.

[MoVolvos]

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Interesting!
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Dr. Anthony Fauci's Ex-Employee, Jailed, Tells All (Full Video)

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Dr. Fauci Compares Covid-19 To Seasonal Flu

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California Doctors Debunk Covid-19 Media Hysteria (Full Video)

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[Phainein7]

Interesting!
.Dr. Anthony Fauci's Ex-Employee, Jailed

Fact Check: Was Dr Anthony Fauci's Ex-employee In Prison For Exposing COVID-19 Pandemic?

Fact check: Recently, netizens were claiming that Dr Judy Mikovits was sent to prison for exposing the COVID-19 pandemic, but it has been proven false.

[Phainein7]

.Dr. Fauci Compares Covid-19 To Seasonal Flu

I would highly suggest reading the full article...he was making an assessment on what was known at that point in time. He indicated "If one assumes...," which was a condition for suggesting Covid-19 being similar to the flu.


On the basis of a case definition requiring a diagnosis of pneumonia, the currently reported case fatality rate is approximately 2%.4 In another article in the Journal, Guan et al.5 report mortality of 1.4% among 1099 patients with laboratory-confirmed Covid-19; these patients had a wide spectrum of disease severity. If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%. This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.2

[Sveedy]

Still, it's food for thought. The two docs seem to make some valid points.

[Phainein7]

two docs seem to make some valid points.

Well, here's a valid point:
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Birthday Party In Pasadena Exposes 30-40 People To Coronavirus

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The Pasadena Public Health Department has identified a cluster
outbreak of coronavirus that started at a birthday party on Easter
Weekend.

Lisa Derderian, a spokesperson for the city, told LAist that at least
five attendees have now tested positive for COVID-19, but many others
were exposed. Derderian said there were about 30 to 40 people at the
party, both inside and outside the host's home.
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Derderian said that several more guests at the party are now
"significantly ill." The Pasadena public health department encouraged
them to get tested, she said, but they don't have the authority to
force them.

[subzerocarfanatic]

Lol, I like it.