It's not that hard actually...Stick to discussing Covid in this thread.. yes politics unfortuntly have a part in the handling of this but we don't need full blown attacks on each side that branches off completely off topic.
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Gotcha. I will concede that a higher than normal number of deaths aren't because the person was sick with the virus, but was a byproduct of the toll the virus has taken in other ways. However you want to slice it, mortality rate has increased this year and the only significant change is that we've had a novel virus introduced to society.
In all of the mail in voting discussion yesterday, apologies to Scooba and Gutter for my part in that, I didn't see this posted concerning the change in guidance from the CDC concerning testing for asymptomatic people.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/polit...ts/ar-BB18ogme
We must have some funky stuff going on with processing tests. Just had our lowest thursday since June. I'm thinking maybe our sharp decline was driven by not getting as many tests processed or reported and then the subsequent spike was partly catchup, and that we've been on a gradual decline the whole time as far as actual cases.
Just a shot in the dark, but it seems weird how lumpy the results have been since we hit the peak.
Mississippi's test reporting is awful, so no idea on how much less if any that's being done. You can look at this chart though, and see things are getting much better...
https://i.postimg.cc/c4bNfxQT/AF8-FD...BC0015-CBC.jpg
That doesn't explain the spike and immediate drop. There would just be a decline. And it would probably show up in hospitalizations and deaths if it were something other than how we're processing or reporting tests. Could just be random fluctuation around the trend, but seems pretty significant to be that.
Here's an article from yesterday on how Collin Co in TX just last week had 4,736 active COVID cases and after an investigation it's been reduced to only 81: https://starlocalmedia.com/allenamer...6f2fd31b6.html
"In the previous week, Collin County’s COVID-19 dashboard had begun sporting a disclaimer stating that it had been made aware of inaccuracies in reporting from the DSHS and that the county had no confidence in the data it was receiving."
There have been stories like this all over. How can anyone still believe the numbers that are being reported? Strange also how the numbers in these cases are always on the high side.
Due to the White House Task Force Guidance and not from the experts inside the CDC...
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/26/u...trump-cdc.html
And the number of tests are down in Texas...
https://www.texastribune.org/2020/08...testing-texas/
And in Mississippi
https://covidtracking.com/data/state/mississippi
It's almost like someone is pushing to reduce the number of tests for some reason....