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(5,722 posts)It was stopped in the middle of the Barry Manilow set due to weather.
Baitball Blogger
(46,736 posts)I hope she makes it through without contacting Covid. She is a bright progressive, but her job puts her in the thick of right-wingers and she already caught Covid once from an indoor banquet that was job related. She has also picked up two other respiratory viruses just from the extensive traveling she has to do. Again, job related.
She's been so careful outside of the demands that her job creates for her. Vaccinated and wears masks. So I was very surprised to hear that she went to see Bruce in NY this last weekend. I know she was just so tired of quarantining, she felt like she needed to connect with "normal" if just for a day.
babylonsister
(171,070 posts)through Mandy by Barry Manilow.
afaik Springsteen never performed, at least I didn't see him.
Baitball Blogger
(46,736 posts)DemocraticPatriot
(4,372 posts)MLAA
(17,298 posts)Though I would not have gone even with that requirement.
And they looked miserable with their yellow fans to combat the heat and humidity and from being crammed together, THEN they got rained on. Not a good time at all as far as I'm concerned.
And they looked miserable with their yellow fans to combat the heat and humidity and from being crammed together, THEN they got rained on. Not a good time at all as far as I'm concerned.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)I suck at math but according to Worldofmeters, SD is 41 in number of total cases and current graphs are flat or just a blip
House of Roberts
(5,177 posts)Total cases is a misleading number, since what is relevant is cases since Delta became prominent.
llmart
(15,540 posts)And wouldn't they be counted in their home state instead of S. Dak.?
certainot
(9,090 posts)montana, wyoming, colorado, NM, texas
AllyCat
(16,189 posts)So the total is going to look like not much. When you look at the 7 and then 14 day averages, you get a bigger picture of what is happening there. Ive actually been using NYT lately for those numbers because Worldometers has so many states not reporting on the weekends.
Ms. Toad
(34,075 posts)Typically they use a rolling 7-day average, but the caption doesn't indicate whether it is a snapshot or an average.
According to worldometers, on August 6 there were roughly 123 cases. On august 20, there were 304. That's a 247% increase.
According to the New York Times dashboard, the 7-day average on August 6 was 54. The 7-day average on August 20 was 221. That's a 409% increase.
With numbers that small, getting an accurate percentage increase is difficult, since each additional case makes a significant % change.
AZSkiffyGeek
(11,029 posts)They could have gone from 3 to 10 cases and it would be a 230% increase...
MLAA
(17,298 posts)The longer trend in SD will not reflect the Sturgis death party because the attendees will all have returned to their home states taking death and destruction with them.
SweetieD
(1,660 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,444 posts)Believe it, Covid is still raging there.
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,075 posts)But based on both Worldometers and New York Times dashboards, Alabama is raging slightly less this week than last, and Florida has leveled off (according to Worldometers) and is dipping (according to the NY Times).
wnylib
(21,487 posts)reached a saturation point and have run out of people to infect?
(just being facetious)
Ms. Toad
(34,075 posts)So that may influence the curve if they start reporting more than 7 days in a single dump.
wnylib
(21,487 posts)The county health board dashboard reports figures daily for Monday through Thursday, on the following day for each one. Then on Monday morning, it reports figures for Friday, Saturday, and Sunday in one lump.
But even accounting for the 3 day lump, yesterday's report for the weekend was so bad that it threw me into shock for a few moments as I stared at the screen. It also knocked us up from the substantial category to high. Today's numbers are also terrible. If I divide the 3 day lump by 3, today's numbers are equal to the average for one day of the 3 day lump.
Less than half of the county is vaccinated. Nobody wears masks except CVS employees who are required to again.
Ms. Toad
(34,075 posts)Ohio is still reporting daily cases - but deaths are clumped.
We're starting to see more masks. More employers are requiring employees to mask (most grocery stores, starbucks, drug stores), and one grocery store strongly recommends masks, but isn't enforcing it.
wnylib
(21,487 posts)a strange thing I have noticed in the county dashboard numbers. The total active cases from the previous day and the new cases do not add up to the new total cases.
So, for example, using simple round numbers, the total active cases for a Wednesday might be 100. New cases on Thursday are 20. Then the new figure for total active cases is given as 105 instead of 120. So what happened to the other 15? At first I thought it meant that 20 people tested positive but 15 were asymptomatic and not considered active cases.
But the gap is too large every single day for there to be that many asymptomatic people, especially in a county where the vaccination rate is only 47%.
Ms. Toad
(34,075 posts)My guess is that it is similar to the "recovered" on worldometers.
As people recover they are taken off of the active list. So There were 100 people actively ill on Wednesday. 15 of them recovered, leaving only 85 active cases - so 20 new active cases brings the new total to 105?
Active cases & recovered have always been a bit of a mystery to me, since most people just recover and move on with life - how are they tracking that?
wnylib
(21,487 posts)the recovered cases. I considered that the difference in numbers could be due to recovery, but since I follow the numbers each day, it looks like people are having remarkably quick recoveries. That was more noticeable when the numbers were lower in the beginning of the increase in cases.
The site is not connected with the NYT. There is a web address on the site that connects it with cdc.gov.
(I doubt that anyone in NYC knows that we exist here. This is a rural county several hundred miles from NYC. In fact, we often complain here that even the state government in Albany - also several hundred miles away - doesn't know that we exist. That might improve with our new Governor Hochul who is from a Buffalo suburb near us.)
Botany
(70,516 posts)n/t
ChazInAz
(2,569 posts)Botany
(70,516 posts)BTW When did the dealing with and the fighting of this deadly disease become a political
issue when it should be a medical science and public health issue?
wnylib
(21,487 posts)Maybe too many bikers in MO were in ICUs and couldn't make the trip.
GopherGal
(2,008 posts)so states that were already maxed out (MO, AR, FL) are showing only small increases or outright decreases.
IronLionZion
(45,457 posts)the pic in the OP is showing the change in August.
NoMoreRepugs
(9,435 posts)Pretty sure private school covid numbers aren't being included in the stats and I've NEVER believed anything coming out from the gigantic nursing home industry here in the state.
NullTuples
(6,017 posts)Given that the hospitals are near capacity in some cases, that seems somewhat doubtful.
fescuerescue
(4,448 posts)Also surprised that Oregon and Illinois are near the top.
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)They went up pretty early, so you would think that new cases would start to go down given how many people were falling ill unlike SD, which is getting a massive recent spike due to Sturgis.
ProfessorGAC
(65,076 posts)Florida is shown as +3% over that period.
2.704 million to 3.045 million is a difference of 341,000.
That is not 3% of 2.7 million. It's 12.7%.
Illinois is shown at +47%. I see under 1.44 million going to just over 1.48 million. 41,000 new cases is not 47% of 1.44 million.
In addition, in that timeframe, Illinois went from 3,050 new cases to 4,000 daily. 950 is not 47% of 3,000.
I have no way of knowing how many other values are wrong. So, I can't trust this map.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)Skittles
(153,169 posts)BULLSHIT
misanthrope
(7,418 posts)Alabama has not only been surging but Mobile, Alabama eclipsed its winter surge with a swell that started in the last days of July and lasted through the first two weeks of August. Were this for the last week, solely then I might buy the downturn but not from Aug. 6.