Hoosier
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I think that is actually the cumulative rate. The weekly average has been higher (like 13 or 14 percent) and on the rise.
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Just today I found out about 3 more people who have it. One has actually been in the hospital for a while. Don't know any of them particularly well but it is sort of a microcosm of what is happening in the country with cases on the rise.
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Just here to advise against starting a Midwest Childbearing & Delivery thread.
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Man that is sick.
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Indeed Hospitalizations peaked around 60,000 each time in the spring and summer waves. Pretty clear we are going to fly by that mark, it's just a question of how much. You would hope that people adjust their behavior more as things get more and more serious, but who knows. It is especially tough to give up the holidays.
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Almost 45,000 hospitalizations now nationally.
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I don't see how it won't (especially for people hanging out indoors) but we are on the upswing anyway so it may just blend in to the overall trends.
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We are getting too far off into politics.
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Italy's lockdown was sort of in between what China and the US did.
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Just one factor to consider, but the diabeetus could be playing a role
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Plus our election situation would throw fuel on the fire because one way or another, a lot of people aren't going to like the outcome.
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51 deaths in IN, which is the first time over 50 since June 2. With the amount of hospitalizations we are getting, 50+ may become a weekly occurrence for a while on Tuesdays and maybe some other days.
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Maybe we wouldn't be talking about lockdowns if everybody would take this seriously. I don't think there is a clean end to this. We have come to tolerate about 15,000-40,000 flu deaths (sometimes even more) per year. If we can get this down to that level, then I think people will generally accept it as a part of our lives.
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To actually develop a new medicine (not something already in existence), trial it, then mass produce it... I can't imagine how long that would take.
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One of the bigger breakthroughs would be if we had at home rapid result testing. And ideally at a cost that is dirt cheap.
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Legit
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10th anniversary of the Octobomb. Besides being about the deepest non-tropical system you will ever see in the lower 48, it brought a very unusual tornado outbreak from a temporal perspective. It got started after 4 am in Illinois and was basically over in this sub by noon. Not going to find many tornado outbreaks in the Midwest that fall in that time window.
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https://chicago.eater.com/2020/10/26/21531051/illinois-restaurant-sues-pritzker-covid-19-indoor-service
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Lake co. with the daily high in cases again, despite Marion having twice the population
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Speaking of lockdown protests, Italy has had some significant ones in the past couple days.
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Regarding El Paso... hospitalizations have gone up by 300% this month. Yikes. https://www.wfla.com/community/health/coronavirus/el-paso-residents-urged-to-stay-home-for-2-weeks-as-covid-hospitalizations-soar/
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I saw El Paso is doing some kind of stay at home thing. The spring type of closures should be a last resort. I think you have to target restrictions to higher risk places (sucks for them) and see how that goes.
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Yeah that seems like a popular theory... that it will go away. The virus obviously won't just go away and we should hope that the media coverage won't go away either as that would just result in more complacency.
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Europe is the place to judge the US performance against, imo. In late spring and summer, they showed what is possible when you get serious -- extremely low numbers. And now they are showing what happens when you relax and the weather gets colder. I don't think it is fair to compare the US to smaller countries surrounded by water.
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Gov Holcomb actually wanted a fine for people not wearing a mask, but the state atty general pushed back on it and it never happened (a factor could've been that there's some personal beef between the two which posters in IN may know what I'm referring to)
