All ICUs in the Jackson and Meridian areas are on diversion right now.Quote:
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All ICUs in the Jackson and Meridian areas are on diversion right now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Liverpooldawg
I was told all results should be in this afternoon. They will retest my Mom in 7 days. She has some other things going on right now so I don't know if those are creating some similar symptoms. I don't know the accuracy of tests, but I was told it's only about 80%.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cooterpoot
Based on the precautions the LTC was required to take I believed they were doing everything possible to prevent exposure. I now believe we don't know when someone is contagious.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cooterpoot
Some of y'all may have read about how Chattanooga is emerging as a hot spot lately. Figured I'd share some of the recent local data since I'm here.
This is all from the local paper, The Chattanooga Times Free Press. First, new positive tests since mid-April:
https://i.postimg.cc/FHYpz1Yr/New-cases.png
Here are the positive test rates for Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia:
https://i.postimg.cc/52D3C1zw/Postivie-test-rate.png
Since the Chattanooga metro area includes several northwestern Georgia counties and northeastern Alabama counties, the paper's been giving those states' numbers, too. The county's' positive test rate, which isn't listed on the chart, is around 10%.
Here are the county's total available hospital beds (on the left) and adult ventilators (on the right) since May 2:
https://i.postimg.cc/Dyj571yp/Beds-and-ventilators.png
And here are the county's COVID-19 hospitalizations and ICU numbers since April 6 (dark red are non-ICU hospitalizations, pink are the ICU numbers) as of the end of last week:
https://i.postimg.cc/wBf9Vf6c/Annota...-02-215942.png
The latest news today is that two more COVID-19 patients in the county died, one of whom was a 40-45 year old with no underlying conditions, and total hospitalizations went up by four over the weekend from 29 to 33.
Also found out that the retirement home where my wife's great aunt lives -- it's not an assisted living center or nursing home -- had its first positive case yesterday, so that's a huge bummer.
I guess we?re over that shit now. Fake news was calling out states a week ago for opening up and condemning folks for going to the beach. But these ?protests? are fine. May the Covid run rampant!!!
In all seriousness, if there aren?t massive outbreaks in cities where these protests are, it would provide evidence that social distancing just isn?t necessary anymore. Would encourage people to read Clay Travis? mailbag today, which included emails from several doctors about how a lot of what we?re being told doesn?t make sense. Really beginning to hope for a normal or close to normal football season
I was thinking the same thing. If the virus is as Contagious as experts keep saying there should be massive spikes in all these cities where protest and riots have been going on cause social distancing was sure not being practiced.Quote:
Originally Posted by JPdog
These cities are about to have a major medical issue.Quote:
Originally Posted by Commercecomet24
Oh come on now guys. Don't you know it's ok? They all wore masks!!!!!*****
Lol I did notice that! Practicing safe looting I guess!Quote:
Originally Posted by Bdawg
I am curious to see the results of this.Quote:
Originally Posted by DownwardDawg
The formula for catching it: Proximity x Time = Sick You must be around a contaminated person for more than just a short time to to get an adequate viral load.
Don?t blink to quick. Rumor has it that the state is worried we are about to hit hospital capacity in the Jackson area.
The potential is there for a massive increase in cases in the Black Lives Matter crowds due to protest. I have been listening to 24h news nonstop while working. They are still discussing the risk of covid, but obviously with the protest and the dumbass looters, there are more items to discuss that people are waiting to see. If the cases do not increase in these areas, then opening up things seems to be safer than previously thought. Luckily, the protest are outside and not in an enclosed air space. I am sure I am like all of you, I want the protest to be peaceful, I want the protest to fundamentally change how we approach race issues moving forward, and I want those people to be safe from both being attacked and COVID. Unfortunately, the scum of the earth right now is looting rioting. Like, 17n get a clue dumbass bitches. If i had it my way, the protesters would protest, and the second it starts to get out of hand, the thousands of people squash it immediately with extreme prejudice. Protesters get my full support, rioters and looters are 17n bullshit and deserve getting their asses kicked.Quote:
Originally Posted by WinningIsRelentless
I wish the protesters could stand in their way and just stop it, but in reality they are looting using guerrilla warfare tactics.
edited to add, I stand with the BLM people protesting peacefully. 100%.
Mississippi is getting really close to overloading the ICU/COVID wards in at least one place. It's going to be heck if we have to go back on lockdown. I suspect it will be county by county if it happens.
You got a link?
I have a good friend who works ICU in Jackson works with C19 patients and he is off this week. I would think if it was as bad as you say then he wouldn't be able to take off.
It depends on how many nurses they have in relation to the need. It could be his area is over staffed. You don't need every nurse in the entire hospital to be at work at the same time. Yesterday, every ICU in the Jackson and Meridian areas was on diversion. Now, that is obviously not all due to COVID, and it's not abnormal to be on diversion. But I guess the issue is all of them being on diversion at the same time. The healthcare infrastructure is not great in this state to begin with. But you can always airlift to other hospitals. You can always open up ERs and ORs as ICUs. That happens during flu season. We know what to do. The problem comes in when you have something like a stroke or heart attack where time really does matter.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dawgfan77
True, true. Journalistic spin at its finest. If it don't fit their narrative, don't use it.Quote:
Originally Posted by DownwardDawg
All models have shown already to be BS. This will bear out in the next 3-6 months. For a month social distancing and congestion everywhere I've been has been normal to excessive. Just got back from Smokey Mtns last week. Most crowded I've seen in some time. If any predictions were worth two cents, half world would be dead now.Quote:
Originally Posted by JPdog
Yes virus is real but severity and reaction are not. There is a reason they didn't call it something flu. Flu doesn't scare anyone. Corona virus didn't stick either because virus doesn't scare anyone. A new name for a new disease gets everyone scared and ready to follow whatever they are told. Covid19 sounds bad. Psychological warfare 101.
The real threat isn't fleeting contact, esp outdoors. It's contact greater than 5 minutes, esp indoors. You still should wear a mask indoors in public spaces always. If you are going to be sitting next to someone at an outdoor event you need to too.
I was in the Smokies last weekend as well. I have NEVER seen it so crowded. Friday night wasn?t bad but Saturday the streets of Gatlinburg were packed. Took 3 hours to go thru Cades Cove and every major trail had overflow parking. I?d say less than 10% of people wore masks. Ate at the Local Goat in Pigeon Forge Sunday and it seemed to running at around full capacity. Servers were gloved but no masks. If you weren?t aware of the pandemic you?d never know it had happened by being there.Quote:
Originally Posted by R2Dawg
I think the heat and being out side is going to save them. Plus I didn't see any old people or oxygen machines. They will probably be ok. Who knows in a wierd way it might enable football to return with fans in the stadium.Quote:
Originally Posted by Commercecomet24
Hahaha!!Quote:
Originally Posted by THE Bruce Dickinson
Heard Chicago shut down it's testing centers
The protests are going to have the side affect of limiting the testing done. I wouldn't be surprised to see the numbers dipped regardless as the unrest continues to mount.
This is true. Testing centers have not operated the past couple days. I'm not 100% sure, but they'll likely reopen tomorrow, as things finally started to calm down on Tuesday afternoon. I think testing will have to resume in some capacity given the outbreak potential - we went into Phase 3 on Wednesday, access to the Loop was restored after being cut off for 3 days (bridges were raised, ramps blocked, and CTA service suspended), and although looting has subsided, peaceful protests continue apace. The last three months have been rough. Although shelter-in-place has been lifted, there is now a city-wide curfew between 9pm and 6am.Quote:
Originally Posted by dantheman4248
The lancet retracts their Hydroxychloroquine study
https://www.thelancet.com/lancet/art..._medium=social
What's this mean?Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
This explains it better...Quote:
Originally Posted by confucius say
https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/04/...malaria-drugs/
Well ain't that some ****Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7
My older brother who had Prostrate cancer that spread to his back and has been in and out of nurshing home tested positive. He is over weight and sick. He's pretty tough. He is in good cheer. I think he will be ok. He believes he caught it at the doctors office.
Decent article summarizing what is going on in Georgia and why there may not be a spike due to re-opening (don't discount it just because its Vox) https://www.vox.com/2020/6/4/2126776...es-deaths-data
I would add one more thing from my observations - while Kemp didn't shut things down until April, a significant number of Georgia's urban centers and small cities shut down a week to 10 days earlier, with Atlanta being the primary one. Add to it, that I know many people who were on "work from home" status by March 20th-ish. So, while the state may not have done the best job, pro-active cities and counties probably made a difference.
That sounds like a good job to me. Viruses don't spread on a statewide basis and it doesn't make a lot of sense for the state to dictate to counties and cities how to operate on something like this. Make information available and offer guidance, but unless state law is set up where local governments don't have the power they need, there doesn't seem to be any reason to shut down on statewide basis. Where I live shut down before the rest of the state (as we probably should have at the time based on the information available, even if it was unnecessary in hindsight). Our local leaders were bitching, but they were just bitching about having to make a tough decision, since the governor obviously didn't actually need to do anything.Quote:
Originally Posted by BrunswickDawg
It was really interesting to watch, since I work in local govt. Georgia is a home rule oriented state - and Kemp and the current legislature have been pretty aggressive on exerting some power in places where traditionally the State has left things up to locals.Quote:
Originally Posted by Johnson85
In this case, the locals were ahead of the game - and put out some good local based restrictions. When Kemp finally did act, he wiped away all the local actions and gave no flexibility to local govt. to tailor anything to their needs. An area like ours needed to be able to create restrictions based on our economy and what we know - which is why we closed beaches in March (before Kemp reopened them, then DNR closed them, then they got reopened). We were in the height of Spring Break season - it probably was the difference in us having one of the lower per capita infection rates in the state. The flip side of that - the 33 counties with under 10,000 people probably could have easily just social distanced and kept everything open, and focused concern on the chicken plant they all work in and been much better off.
The Chinese virus “shutdown” is over... after these last few days the cheerleaders for this pandemic have zero case ...
let’s get on with our lives.. this is getting comical
Use common sense, be smart, sanitation, wash hands, basically be ****ing smart human beings. If you don’t feel safe going or doing something Don’t do it...
I agree 100%. Now we’re seeing what this was all about. It was a scare tactic but now there’s a better story.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ari Gold
In all seriousness, it’s amazing how the media flipped the script. It’s like Covid ain’t shit now as long as you are a protester. But damn you if you go to the beach or eat at a restaurant!!!
Some of you socially distanced before it was mandatory and it shows.
I went fishing today. It’s much easier from my couch than it was on the reservoir this morning. You so easy bro.Quote:
Originally Posted by dantheman4248
Michigan had an awful report today
High numbers???Quote:
Originally Posted by msstate7