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Brazil reports 10,528 new cases and 987 new deaths.
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Worldometers just updated again and has Brazil with 16,260 new cases and 1,118 deaths. Looks like it may overtake the US in the next few days with the daily max cases and deaths.
 
So, I just applied to a COVID-19 related job at one of the hospitals in this area (it said tent team). I half-wonder if I might actually get this job, considering that most probably aren't interested. Might at least get an interview.

(I would be totally fine with it honestly, I'm trying to go back to school but I'm really not sure I'll be able to get in because they have so few spots for this program and it's been that way for a few years)
 
Interesting studies, just posting what I’m reading so take it as you will.

New Standford study has IFR 0.02 to 0.4%, Spain antibody study had below 70 years old ~0.1% and Denmark antibody study had below 70 years old at 0.08%.
 
+422 cases, 10,122 tests (third highest daily total), around 4% positive test rate, and 544 hospitalizations (down from 585) for today in NC.
 
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Seen this story this morning on twitter feed. I know nothing about the newspaper and I’m not siding with either, just posting because this seems to be another strike against Georgia and their number reporting. I think we’re going in the right direction like alot of other Georgia posters here have said, hospital rates are dropping.
amp.macon.com

Georgia’s COVID-19 positive rate is higher than what state reports. Here’s why.

“If anything, it skews those numbers to make it appear like the level of disease relative to testing is actually dropping much more dramatically than it is,” a public health official told the L-E.
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Very limited beds in Winston-Salem. I have family there that can’t get out of ICU floor because there are no regular beds available. A second person died from Wilkes in Winston hospital today reported but not related to my family.
 
WXII12 Breaking News: Multiple cases of COVID19 in Wilkes County Day Care. Several children and adults.
 
All children in the daycare ordered to isolate for two weeks. Their essential parents will be in a bind. Wilkes officials refuse to comment and the daycare had yet to be declared an “outbreak”. WXII12 sticking their nose where it don’t belong.
 
Snow_chaser said:
Seen this story this morning on twitter feed. I know nothing about the newspaper and I’m not siding with either, just posting because this seems to be another strike against Georgia and their number reporting. I think we’re going in the right direction like alot of other Georgia posters here have said, hospital rates are dropping.
amp.macon.com

Georgia’s COVID-19 positive rate is higher than what state reports. Here’s why.

“If anything, it skews those numbers to make it appear like the level of disease relative to testing is actually dropping much more dramatically than it is,” a public health official told the L-E.
amp.macon.com amp.macon.com
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This appears to be confirmed. And egregious. You could do 20000 antibody tests and 5 sick tests and report 2 positives and then everybody cheers. Thinking out percent positive number is .01, when in fact it would be 40 percent. This is very uncomfortable news when one is attempting to sift through politics and just look at data, when the data given is this flawed.
 
New Permanent closures: Ruby Tuesday of Mount Airy and Ruby Tuesday of Clemons in Forsyth County. Corona is to blame according to company statement.
 
NC Gov. Cooper is announcing the move to the move to Phase 2 as of Friday at 1 PM. Bars/clubs/etc. will remain closed, which is a modification from the original Phase 2. Gyms will stay closed. Seems like they’re troubled by the rising case count.
 
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NC Gov. Cooper is announcing the move to the move to Phase 2 as of Friday at 1 PM. Bars/clubs/etc. will remain closed, which is a modification from the original Phase 2. Gyms will stay closed. Seems like they’re troubled by the rising case count.
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So basically eating out at 50% and hair and nail places at 50% is only major changes?
 
Interesting about the gym part maybe bigger gyms will reopen anyway from what I heard.
 
Shaggy said:
So basically eating out at 50% and hair and nail places at 50% is only major changes?
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Also the Stay at Home order has been replaced with a Safer at Home order. There were some other things, too, but I don’t remember them all, so we’ll see what the document eventually says. Definitely a somewhat watered down phase 2 compared to what I expected, though.
 
So part of phase 2. Meaning gyms could reopen next week or at anytime.
 
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So part of phase 2. Meaning gyms could reopen next week or at anytime.
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Yeah, I’m wondering if the metrics stay stabilized if bars and gyms could open before we enter phase 3 (so like next week, as you suggested)? IIRC, bars and gyms were originally included in phase 2?

Phase 3 is not supposed to come into effect until 4-6+ weeks after phase 2 starts, so if they have to wait until phase 3 that’s a long time left for these businesses and there will probably be many more permanent closures.
 
BREAKING NEWS: 570 people test positive from Tyson in Wilkesboro. Final tally. Unclear how that will impact county wide number but prob not good.
 
So 25% of all Tyson employees were positive here. Which is inline with other states
 
Can someone please explain in a logical fashion how "confirmed" cases can decrease? Either they are "confirmed" or they are not; perhaps "suspect" but "confirmed"? There is no middle ground to "confirmed". This reporting is insane and really about as relaible as an 18Z GFS snowstorm at 15 days in January ... and even the GFS does not "confirm" ...

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Georgia closing down the 200 bed makeshift hospital at Georgia World Congress Center, they seen 17 patients while it was open.
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Georgia to wind down makeshift hospital at Atlanta convention center

The makeshift hospital for coronavirus patients built in the Georgia World Congress Center is winding down, as the sprawling Atlanta convention complex finalizes plans to ramp back up.
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Worldometer updated Brazil's numbers. Now it's 21,473 new cases and 911 new deaths.
 
New York Times had Wilkes County like number 8 in the nation to watch I think tomorrow will be number 1.
 
Im sorry,but im having a hard time rationalizing with the delay, espeacilly in NC to open back up, like watering down phase 2.
The whole purpose of shutting down was to avoid a surge on hospitals. We did that. We arent going to stop this virus as much as we all would like to. A vaccine is at best 6 months away and thats being very optimistic. The only way out of this is herd immunity. Which can be done safely while still isolating the elderly and most vunerable.
Thats the way it seems to me.
Every life is so valuable and this is a tough situation,choice,decession we are faced with.
But we have reached the point where we are gonna have to take this step and get it over with. Staying shut down just kicks this can down the road and creates bigger problems with unemployment, small and large businesses permanently shutting down for good.
 
Former WHO doctor says coronavirus cases are not increasing as expected in areas that reopen
"It's as though something has changed, and none of us can explain why.”
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May 20, 2020 - 5:02pm
 
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