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All I did was ask a question. Quit being so defensive.
What makes it a conspiracy theory? I heard a similar story as someone else in a totally different state and totally different situation. Same results though.
I have no agenda. Pretty strange coincidence.
Good info on herd immunity studies. We are much closer than we think. NY seems to have reached it.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.the...rticle/614035/
Then there is this:
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1....09.20148429v1
It doesn't really make sense to falsify the numbers of positive test cases to make them higher because that would decrease the death rate.
I suspect it's more about laziness than trying to push numbers one way or the other.
Give 1,000 tests, get back 150 positive results, and just report 150 positive tests and don't take the presumably 7 seconds it would take to report the negative results. Or maybe a clinic isn't even keeping a running tally, so they go back and count the positive results but don't bother counting the tests given. Who knows.
Agreed. Case count matters, but in an ideal world - if you have a high positive case count, you want to see low hospitalization and mortality rates. Mortality is only important to track the potency of the virus, but the hospitalization number is the key. As long as hospitals can treat and release without getting overwhelmed - we're in good shape.
I said this a month or so ago, whatever numbers your reading - they're manipulated. You can find data to support whatever position you have, as the situation is too political. It's sad because there are a lot of areas and hospitals that are on diversion and the general public believes that is a hoax as well.
No clear answer yet, but many believe the answer to immunity lies in T cells. Not the presence of antibodies alone.
Either way, I think if we can get to 70k documented cases in MS we will be ok. NY has 430k cases, 20 million people. Little over 2%. Using the cdc x 10 factor, between 20-25%. That's where we need to get to, 70k documented cases (700k cases using the x 10 factor). Late August.
New death highs in Alabama. That darn media trying to panic me again.
https://www.al.com/news/2020/07/alab...mpression=true
Last 3 day avg including today's 40 deaths is 16.7. Here's Alabama's 3-day avg chart...
https://i.postimg.cc/FzDXm473/5-DFC4...1371-D5868.jpg
So we really aren't seeing anything alarming, yet. Let's see what the next few days bring.
One of my best friend is an ICU nurse in Jackson hours cut back this week
I think you should look at both. I actually like 7-day avg the best. In this case though, Alabama had 3 deaths and 7 the previous 2 days, so I think a big day was expected soon. Yesterday's 7-day was tied with March 12th for the highest at 17. Today's is 21. Something to keep an eye on for sure.
Mods don?t get mad it?s just the OG covid thread is 50 miles long
https://twitter.com/fox35amy/status/...430340610?s=21