How are your states/region doing with covid?

[PA_jen]

In my part of Western PA the city I live in and the next town over are reporting no ICU beds and nursing shortage. Children's hospital was reported as closing wing due to staff shortage.
The city my mom lives in it was reported the votech superintendent was telling kids you don't need to wear mask and encouraging kids to get doctor notes saying they can't wear mask due to medical reasons.
My friend works at an office. The main section is a room with cubicles filling the room. She told me higher up was sending emails reminding people to wear your mask in the bathroom and moving around the room but in your "personal space" is cubicles you don't. The cubicles are in a huge room so if a person doesn't have a mask on at their desk their breaths/terms are being spread by the air system so only wearing a mask while walking in the room is a must point.

We are averaging 4000 cases a day..in the state

[roamer65]

1. Good website.

http://covidactnow.org

[PA_jen]

2. Thanks

[msongs]

3. averaging 400 -800 new cases a day with a few deaths on average mask use is high and

anti vaxxers are clogging hospitals

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2021/09/13/state-sees-461-new-covid-cases-vaccination-rate-reaches-655/

[sakabatou]

4. Let's see, in my county...

Vaccinated with 1 or more doses: 78%
New cases: 322, with 261 average.

[Maru Kitteh]

5. Wow. Tell me what it's like . . .

*sigh*

[sakabatou]

6. What is it specifically?

[Maru Kitteh]

7. Well, our positivity is 29.68%.

Tell me about the SANE people. I fear I've not seen any for a very long time now.

[sakabatou]

8. Pretty much everyone is masked up when outside, or try and keep in a wide birth of others.

Everyone wears masks indoors.

[mwooldri]

9. Observations from my missus...

She works as lab tech in a community hospital in northern NC. As of late the Emergency Department has been packed, no beds, gurneys pressed into use in hallways. Multiple times the hospital has declared code black - meaning that ambulances had better not bring patients there as the hospital cannot take them. Covid testing in the ED has changed somewhat - the antigen rapid test is used first - if that comes up negative then a specimen is sent to the lab to process for a PCR test, as the antigen test does have a high rate of false negatives.

City of Greensboro has reintroduced a mask requirement for being indoors in public spaces. The redder areas north of GSO haven't reintroduced any such requirement.

[Diamond_Dog]

10. My dumbass county

Stuck at 48% vax rate. NE Ohio

[mucifer]

19. If it's fully vaxxed the national average is 53%

[Buckeye_Democrat]

11. Not too good in Ohio.

The last time that I checked, even states like Alabama were catching up to us with percentages of the vaccinated.

[Diamond_Dog]

22. I know,right?

My area years ago was such a Democratic stronghold. Now there seem to be so many dumbass Trumpers here. It’s frustrating.

And I could just punch DeWine for making that statement the other day that “Biden made a mistake “ with the mandates. Well, Mikey, your ideas went nowhere, Vax a Million didn’t move the needle much, and we need results NOW. Like Joe said, we’re out of patience.its been over 8 months and all DeWine’s pleading and begging and lottery contests haven’t done squat.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

26. DeWine has no spine, in addition to being a Republican.

That's why I call him DeWorm sometimes.

He was following the advice of infectious disease experts initially, and Ohio could've been the first state to mandate masks last year. That was in the works, but then DeWine backed off because of the crazy right-wingers who proclaimed it was overreach for a "hoax".

I think he MIGHT be sensible at heart, but he made his bed by being a Republican.

[cinematicdiversions]

12. My state is getting smarter and better looking on average every single day. NT

[tinrobot]

13. Los Angeles is fine. Over 75% vaccinated, most people wear masks.

Our cases are trending down.

Today cases were around 1200, way down from January's peak of almost 20k.

[GulfCoast66]

14. I'm beginning to realize it is too localized to decide.

In Orange County, the largest in Central Florida and Democratic masks are common and vaccination rates are decent for Florida. Just 40 miles away, Pasco County, also in Central Florida although west central there have been no real efforts from the git-go. Very red county.

Orange County has 3.2 million people and have had 1,300 deaths.

Pasco County has 562K residents and 800 deaths.

You do the math. But unless I figure it wrong, which is possible, residents of Orange County have a .04 percentage chance of dying from Covid. Pasco a .1 percent chance. Keep in mind, this is all residents, not Covid positive people.

And our ICU rates are also not indicative over our very local conditions. Many of the people in them have been transported from rural areas with little or no real ICU space.

This is truly a killing of the unvaccinated people. I know we read anecdotal accounts of breakthrough cases on DU including some of our valued members. And I’m still taking all my precautions. But I no longer fear dying. No more than from other activities in my life. But don’t want to get sick and perhaps kill an unvaccinated idiot.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

16. It's indeed a regional problem, even more defined than...

... counties and some cities.

Here's a website that provides a map of "vaccine hesitancy" by zip code.

http://www.healthdata.org/acting-data/covid-19-vaccine-hesitancy-us-county-and-zip-code

My zip code is better than many in Ohio, but we're surrounded on all sides by greater hesitancy. And that makes sense to me, given how the people in those surrounding locations are more likely to vote for Republicans.

By the way, I could never see their zip code maps with my smartphone for some reason. Only on my PC.

[GulfCoast66]

18. I'm actually in Lake county, west of Orange County(Orlando)

But on the county line and my city is higher educated, diverse and a bedroom community for Orlando. Masks are prevalent in most stores and we have a good vaccination rate. 20 miles away in North Lake County it is a different world. Few masks and anti-vaccers abound.

So 15-20 miles can make a world of difference. Most of the ICU cases in my city’s hospital are not from my city.

[CTyankee]

15. Thank god I'm in a deep blue state of CT. Blue state, blue Senators and reps, New Haven has a

progressive mayor. For now, everyone is obeying the commonsense regulations and living their lives.

[mvd]

17. Fellow PA resident here

Yes I miss those brief times where the state had around 250 cases a day. My county (Montgomery) has increased to 100-150 cases per day. I do see more people in stores with masks, and the vaccination rate is decent. Deaths aren’t so bad in my county. I hope the state and county have peaked in cases.

[greenjar_01]

20. Chicago is doing OK

We're under 20 cases per 100,000 a day, our hospitalizations are moving in the right direction, and deaths are nudging down again, but remain low relative to population (about 4 per day). Our positivity rate remains under 4%.

No problems with the hospitals. We've been having mostly vaxxed concerts and ball games all summer. Vaccination matters. The story is similar in other major cities in vaccine-positive states.

[liberal_mama]

21. We are doing sort of okay in Erie County, New York (Buffalo) with about 175 new cases daily and

150 weekly cases per 100,000 people, but the Buffalo Bills season just started and we had a full screaming maskless stadium yesterday. Schools are back in person since last Wednesday. We have a lot more cases this year than last year at this time. Not many people wear masks when I'm at the grocery store. Last time, I'd say about 20% of people were wearing masks. We do have a higher than average vaccination rate, but a lot of Covidiots here. I'm hoping we don't get a surge soon of Delta or Mu here. We were hit pretty hard last winter.

[MiniMe]

23. My county in Maryland (Montgomery County) is 82% with at least 1 dose of vaccine

11.1 new cases per 100K. Positive test rate is 3%. So we are doing pretty good. I'm still wearing my mask.

[Celerity]

24. those are really good numbers

[MiniMe]

25. True, but I live on the northern edge of the county and I haven't seen numbers by zip code.

My guess is where I live (which is a red area of a very blue county), the numbers are not that good. I will continue wearing my mask.