Eskimo Joe

IMO, it seems that Maryland and DC are are the peak and Phase 1 re-opening between May 10th - 18th appear reasonable.

Oooo, what nursery?

The lawn mowers will be going full force this weekend.

I don't think people understand how nefarious this virus is. As things open back up, people need to keep their guard up and continue extra measures for disinfectant and sanitizing surfaces. Because if this gets in your office/facility/whatever, it runs through fast.

Looks like WPC bumped up the DY 1-3 QPF to 2"+ from US15 east.

IMO, antibody testing is not a cure all and shoudn't be touted as a reliable indicator of any partial or full immunity until more reliable studies on it come out.

Big Ooof

eh?

NWS Charleston, WV just issued a flood watch for their eastern zones so I wonder if/when CTP and LWX will be hoisting a watch.

More likely we get flooding. If you read the morning AFD from LWX it sounds like we're getting a flood watch later today.

Ask me Wednesday.

7 calendar days of this and ICU decrease. There was +202 in hospitalizations reported today.

Yes.

This is just a casual observation, absolutely not scientific in any way, but it seems like we go from overcast and 47 degrees to full summer a lot quicker since the early 2000s.

Two question for the lawn folks: 1.) Do you have a recommendation for a de-thatcher/aerator that isn't overly expensive for a home owner to buy? 2.) We have a lot of wild violets on our lawn. We have a lawn service that does some light spraying for us, but the violets just laugh at it. Are there any suggestions on how to slowly reduce their numbers?

Watch DCA hit 90 before May 10th.

Yea that's not the greatest number to see unfortunately.

Numbers tail off because some of the private labs don't run on weekends.

Folks be wary of the onslaught of "recent studies". Question the source and see if there was a control group. Otherwise the conclusions are likely dubious.

Yea. Appears +74 fatalities...ICU utilization from COVID patients up 25% though.

No, that was a poor explanation on my part. I should have said that is what was report on Thursday.

I answered Yoda's incorrectly so I deleted the post. He was looking for a data aggregation source, not the means on how to calculate.

It's good to see testing and timely results coming in. As others have said, that will definitely spike the cases and that shouldn't alarm folks. This will allow public health to isolate infected individuals. For transitioning from phases to phase of re-opening we will be looking closely at supply chain integrity of PPE, ICU bed counts, hotspots in places like nursing homes, and number of vents being used. This needs to continue through the summer and into the fall so we can maintain the isolation protocols.

We call that Friday night in the EMS world.