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Things don't seem bad at all around here. I don't know anyone who's been hospitalized or died. Looks like the people who do get it, which is far and between here, are good to go over-night in most cases. Even a friend who had a work friend on Chemo therapy said he did fine through it.

Almost everything is back open here, and I see the social distancing starting to back off, with normalcy returning. Looking like the initial "we all gonna die if we reopen" rhetoric didn't pan out. Thankfully!
 
Things don't seem bad at all around here. I don't know anyone who's been hospitalized or died. Looks like the people who do get it, which is far and between here, are good to go over-night in most cases. Even a friend who had a work friend on Chemo therapy said he did fine through it.

Almost everything is back open here, and I see the social distancing starting to back off, with normalcy returning. Looking like the initial "we all gonna die if we reopen" rhetoric didn't pan out. Thankfully!
I really, really, really and truthfully hope you can re-post this in November ... ;)
 
When I was in La Fayette, GA this weekend, it was almost as if nothing was going on. The hotel lobby was closed (despite the hotel being open, and having been open all along), we sprayed a good bit of Lysol when we first entered our room, but otherwise it was mostly normal. Maybe it was the time period that I headed out, but I would say 90%+ of people (outside of some workers, and some of them had their mask around their neck) weren't wearing masks when I went in two stores for a short time. It makes you wonder some, although back in April you probably did have several more wearing masks.

The hotel parking lot was pretty filled up for a small town.

Having said all that, like I had alluded to earlier, most of our time was spent either in the hotel or in/around my aunt/grandma's house. When we were out on the road and not in town, we only made 2 stops combined. Had brief contact if anything with anyone outside of family and 2 good friends.

My aunt had made my grandma wear a mask and gloves to go to Walmart, but she also talked about how their area hasn't had many issues, and about coming down when the high risk shelter in place ends.
 
Wilkes had 3 Covid deaths last week. It would have been 4 because the hospital begged one family to put COVID19 on someone’s death certificate despite it not being COVID19. The hospital gets paid thousands for each COVID19 death. That family denied and may be contacting WXII12 news about this.
 
I know the daughter of someone in that family and she was fuming the hospital would try to do that.
 
Wilkes had 3 Covid deaths last week. It would have been 4 because the hospital begged one family to put COVID19 on someone’s death certificate despite it not being COVID19. The hospital gets paid thousands for each COVID19 death. That family denied and may be contacting WXII12 news about this.
Yep, the true stats will never been known, fluffing numbers to fit agendas in the new normal.
 
I was a bit concerned we’d see a huge spike in deaths reported nationally today after the holiday weekend backlog, but it looks like we’re going to come in relatively low. Over 1,000, but lower than any weekday (besides Mondays) in awhile. I guess I should wait for the final numbers come out in a few minutes, though.
 
I was a bit concerned we’d see a huge spike in deaths reported nationally today after the holiday weekend backlog, but it looks like we’re going to come in relatively low. Over 1,000, but lower than any weekday (besides Mondays) in awhile. I guess I should wait for the final numbers come out in a few minutes, though.
I'd wait until Thursday ... there is so much "cleaning up" that nothing is even close to certain as far as current numbers go, right now ... hell, our local health official said today he suspects based on testing data that 13,000 --- Yes, 13,000 unreported and undocumented in this County have had it but showed no symptoms ... take that for what it's worth ... one way or another ...

Recent antibody testing for COVID-19 indicates that perhaps more than 13,000 local residents have at some point had the infection even if they never showed symptoms, according to the top officials for the state Department of Health in Alachua County.


Heard (yes heard) immunity????????????
 
Really love how "confirmed" can go down/down ... enough for tonight ... enjoy whatever you're doing ...

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79 new cases in South Korea. This is not good.

It's really not surprising. Mitigation will not stop this, only slow it down. Either you completely shut down your borders, or you lock down every time you get a case until the vaccine is out. Otherwise the virus will have to burn through 10-20% of the population.
 
I noticed our favorite IHME model updated again and downgraded NC to just 1,400 deaths now, down from 2,400 last week and over 4,000 earlier this month. So, who knows...
 
I noticed our favorite IHME model updated again and downgraded NC to just 1,400 deaths now, down from 2,400 last week and over 4,000 earlier this month. So, who knows...

Yeah that models credibility goes down with each shift. As many guesses as its thrown out its bound to have been right one of those times.
 
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Saw this elsewhere.

Dr Harvey Risch is Professor of Epidemiology in the Department of Epidemiology and Public Health at the Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine.

Hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin has been widely misrepresented in both clinical reports and public media, and outpatient trials results are not expected until September. Early outpatient illness is very different than later hospitalized florid disease and the treatments differ. Evidence about use of hydroxychloroquine alone, or of hydroxychloroquine+azithromycin in inpatients, is irrelevant concerning efficacy of the pair in early high-risk outpatient disease. Five studies, including two controlled clinical trials, have demonstrated significant major outpatient treatment efficacy.

These medications need to be widely available and promoted immediately for physicians to prescribe.



 
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