Posted on 05/25/2020 9:01:25 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The longer we stay locked down, the worse it gets
an entire 7 days worth of so what, because adding any more days, ruins the graphics being implied.
“the nearly 1,500 cases added over the last 24 hours constitute the biggest one-day jump in at least a week. Virginia also reported 1,208 deaths and 4,269 hospitalizations.”
SCARY... Except deaths and hospitalizations were the cumulative numbers, since March. And no mention of number of tests.
Yahoo news is Urinalism for Millenials
Exactly. Since the majority of “cases” produce no symptoms, or mild symptoms, the headline is meaningless.
Some may not be cases at all if VA is counting positive antibody tests.
Covid in Virginia...
Demoncrats controlling the vote.
Yet another reason we need to wall those places off from the rest of the state.
OH NOES
“biggest jump in cases in a week ...”
Agree...every week will have one day like this. Where was the headline
“biggest drop in class in a week” when it happened?
The use of the word “case” is fraudulent. It actually means “tested positive for the virus,” but the public understands it as “sick and being treated for the virus.”
Another number that is not fraudulent, but misleading, is the number of anything by county, or state, or city. A better number would be the number in proportion to the total population. They’re saying that Brazil has the second-highest number of cases after the USA. Population USA 330 million, Brazil 210 million.
And cases don’t mean hospital beds. AIB (asses in beds) is what we need to keep an eye on. Increased testing results in more cases—that’s a no brained. But “sick” people is the key.
If there is room in the hospitals, we are OK. If the rooms are running out, we need to do something. It’s pretty simple.
“Increased testing results in more cases—that’s a no brained.”
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Though wouldn’t it also “result in less cases” - I mean, in a sense - not being Zen there. That sooner or later the cases left go to a trickle, you get around to the more far flung areas and there just aren’t as many cases as there in New England to report? Dunno if that’s clear, heh.
“But “sick” people is the key.”
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Being as that state is somewhere between “new case” and “ex-parrot”, doesn’t it seem likely that number would also be trending down along with the other two measures? i.e. the three are linked by nature?
Infection = infectious contact x time
In other words, an infection that makes someone ill is a particular viral load, which is usually obtained with sustained contact over some period of time, not by a random passing on the street contact. And sooner or later those staying in must go out, for necessities, on occasion.
So where is sustained contact over time occurring most - with the stay at homes.
In NYC a survey of folk hospitalized for the virus found 2/3 were NOT from the “essential” workers who continued to go to work every day, continued their prior level of public contact, continued commuting on the mass transit system; no, that 2/3 was from the people who had been staying home.
If you are hill, stay home, if not GET OUT, GO OUT.
More people are tested. Most of the positives don’t even know they have it until they’re tested. This is all BS. Number of cases doesn’t mean people are dropping dead in the streets.
My question is what a out the incubation period? 14 days to stop the spread. We are three months in.
They also tested more people on that day than any other: 11,874. But the percentage of positive tests remains right in line with the recent downtrend.
Maybe Virginia should open up.
Looking at Worldometer for the US,
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Yesterday, Virginia had 37 deaths and 1483 new cases.
Looking at the wayback machine, since Friday compared to Monday:
https://web.archive.org/web/20200522222128/https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Virginia did ( 289,579 - 249,940 = ) 39,639 tests, to find (37,727 - 34,950 = ) 2,777 positives over Memorial day weekend, for a positive rate of 7%. They are having to mine deeper and deeper to get their case numbers up.
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