[WRnative]

Originally Posted by whatsgoingon4

It is going to go away at some point. The talk that it will be here forever, at the intensity it is now, is just media sensationalism. Either there will be a vaccine that prevents people from getting it, or most people get it and recover and become immune to it. (Which is looking more likely given increasing research on T-cells and the fact that people had memory cells to SARS years later, which this is very similar to). How many people have to get it for it to run its course is unknown, it could be lower or higher than predicted.

But at some point it is going to run its course, just like every other pandemic in history has.

The immediate problem is the immense incompetence with which the U.S. has dealt with the pandemic, with few of the lessons of other nations being learned and applied in the U.S., especially the importance of mask wearing. The resulting cost in lives, health deficiencies of survivors, educational deficiencies and treasure will have serious repercussions in the years ahead; in this way, the current generation of Americans will live with this pandemic for many decades into the future.

See post 875 in this thread regarding the importance of mask wearing.

https://www.city-data.com/forum/flor...l#post58734453

Heightened levels of food insecurity and homelessness risk are ignored by the apologists for the inept pandemic response by our leaders.

<<This week the US Census Bureau published results of a survey in which nearly 30 million out of 249 million respondents said they did not have enough to eat at some point in the week before July 21. It was the highest number of people reporting insufficient food since the Census started tracking that information in early May.

According to the data released Wednesday, about 23.9 million people said they "sometimes" did not have enough to eat, while 5.4 million said they "often" did not have enough to eat -- a statement Webb says applies to her.>>

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/us/fo...vey/index.html

There is little research being conducted about the health impacts on those who tested positive but were asymptomatic, let alone on those were hospitalized to treat the infection. Florida doctors especially are concerned about these health consequences. See post 187 in this thread.

https://www.city-data.com/forum/flor...l#post58803666

Even if the virus is eradicated, which is not anticipated at this time among most experts even if we obtain vaccines and effective treatments, the consequences of this pandemic will be long-lasting, and in so many ways will weigh on the U.S. relative to much of the developed world.

Until the virus is eradicated, we need a heightened public service function, just as was undertaken with AIDs and with TB, especially when TB was a rampant infection in the U.S. prior to the development of antibiotics during WWII.

Those expect the virus to be eliminated don't understand that mankind never has developed a successful vaccine for a coronavirus, and a mutation of the COVID-19 virus may make vaccines even more difficult to develop and render current vaccines under development ineffective.

Unfortunately, U.S. cultural norms may have to change to deal successfully with COVID-19, let alone any future pandemic.

[SanyBelle]

Corrie or anyone else who has been keeping history of the Florida numbers, I have a question on # of total tests performed each day. According to Worldometers here are the number of total tests, my date might be one off from the actual reporting date:

Date...Total Tests....Increase
10/23 5,873,041
10/24 5,945,372 Increase of 72,331 tests from the prior day
10/25 5,969,050 Increase of 14,678 tests
10/26 5,992,068 Increase of 32,018 tests
10/27 6,021,829 Increase of 29,761 tests
10/28 9,774,192 Increase of 3,752,363 tests from the prior day


The number of daily tests since I've been tracking in early July 2020 have averaged 30,000. Could the 9.7 million number reported on the Worldometer website today be a typo?

Thanks!



PS. Okay, I did some research. Florida changed the way we are reporting. The 6M number is the number of unique people tested, the 9.7 million is the number of tests. https://covidtracking.com/data/state...da/tests-viral

confusing!!!

[SanyBelle]

Additional info: from https://covidtracking.com/data/state...da/tests-viral explaining the 6 vs 9.7M numbers.


Total PCR tests (people) ↑
Total number of unique people tested at least once via PCR testing, as reported by the state or territory. The count for this metric is incremented up only the first time an individual person is tested and their result is reported. Future tests of the same person will not be added to this count.



Total PCR tests (test encounters) ↑
Total number of people tested per day via PCR testing as reported by the state or territory. The count for this metric is incremented up by one for each day on which an individual person is tested, no matter how many specimens are collected from that person on that day. If an individual person is tested twice a day on three different days, this count will increment up by three. If we discover that a jurisdiction is including antigen tests in this metric, we will annotate that state or territory’s data accordingly.

[Racer46]

Originally Posted by SanyBelle

Corrie or anyone else who has been keeping history of the Florida numbers, I have a question on # of total tests performed each day. According to Worldometers here are the number of total tests, my date might be one off from the actual reporting date:

Date...Total Tests....Increase
10/23 5,873,041
10/24 5,945,372 Increase of 72,331 tests from the prior day
10/25 5,969,050 Increase of 14,678 tests
10/26 5,992,068 Increase of 32,018 tests
10/27 6,021,829 Increase of 29,761 tests
10/28 9,774,192 Increase of 3,752,363 tests from the prior day


The number of daily tests since I've been tracking in early July 2020 have averaged 30,000. Could the 9.7 million number reported on the Worldometer website today be a typo?

Thanks!



PS. Okay, I did some research. Florida changed the way we are reporting. The 6M number is the number of unique people tested, the 9.7 million is the number of tests. https://covidtracking.com/data/state...da/tests-viral

confusing!!!

Check this site too and you can check by zip code and county.


https://fdoh.maps.arcgis.com/apps/op...2a615dc7837c86

[SanyBelle]

Originally Posted by SanyBelle

Additional info: from https://covidtracking.com/data/state...da/tests-viral explaining the 6 vs 9.7M numbers.


Total PCR tests (people) ↑
Total number of [u]unique people tested at least once.



Total PCR tests (test encounters) ↑
Total number of [u]people tested per day.

I understand why DeSantis changed the reporting numbers. The total number of unique people tested at least once averages 20 to 30K a day, the total number of people tested per day averages 70 to 80K a day. The larger reported number decreases the daily positive percentage from around 10% to <4%. This is probably why I didn't understand how the daily percentage was calculated when I asked about this months ago.

[mojo101]

https://gisanddata.maps.arcgis.com/a...23467b48e9ecf6
if this site is accurate,look at India.
the numbers just keep climbing!!!!!!!

[beach43ofus]

UPDATE: Pfizer has announced today that they have a vaccine that is 90% effective. Stock market up 1,600 points on the great news.

Mod edit: political info is not a part of this news.

[Gulf coast jon]

"Mod edit: political info is not a part of this news."

Thank you Mod. City-Data has carved out a place for political expression. Please keep it there.

Originally Posted by beach43ofus

UPDATE: Pfizer has announced today that they have a vaccine that is 90% effective. Stock market up 1,600 points on the great news.

Mod edit: political info is not a part of this news.

[SanyBelle]

11/20/20- Rick Scott tests positive for coronvirus and encourages mask wearing and social distancing.

https://www.wesh.com/article/rick-sc...itive/34739310

[cfenn006]

Numbers keep going up because we keep ignoring guidelines and denying there is even a pandemic. Getting a bunch of grown adults to wear a mask and distance is damn near impossible, and the White House and govenor have undercur every effort to mitigate spread.


Did they not see this happening when they reopened with daily cases in the thousands, then opened schools on top of that???


I really gave no idea how anybody is shocked by this.