RyanDe680

What we need is some form of leadership. I fully admit that I'm not a fan of Pritzker and his proposals (especially the tax increases) but he has navigated IL through this pretty well and I'd applaud him for that. The only way out of this is if we work together as a team and make it happen. While some areas are trending down, a lot of other areas are not, making this that much more difficult. I know we all won't agree with what needs to be done and I can't figure out how wearing a mask for 15-20 minutes while in a store is really that bad but what other way would someone propose then? I love the people pitching major fits about wearing a mask but offer no other solutions. It's not hard to follow the science and follow the guidance for the greater good and not just yourself.

Oh man.... FL available ICU beds were at 1,250 earlier in the week, down to 800 now.... Texas available hospital bed were at 12,925 earlier in the week... now at 11,500 yikes

How many times can we go over the 'its just like the flu' discussion?

That just means an average of 470 deaths per day until winter. The 7-day average currently is near 600. I dont know if you mean optimistic like we won't get there or we will, but it sure looks like it's going to happen at the rate that we are going.

Both. 7/7 Available beds: 12,925 Available ICU beds: 1,148 Total bed count: 54,744

Texas statewide numbers remain nearly unchanged in the last week.

As a country, we have been below 1k per day (still ridiculously high) for nearly a month now. Hopefully that does not begin to trend upwards as well.

Separately FL hospitalization rates are going down. Hospitalization at 16,201 and ICU avail at 1,302. interesting. Especially with cars having gone up in the last month. Wish there were more demographics on the daily testing.

Hospital beds today at 13,307 ICU availability 1,203

Texas numbers continuing the bad news 7/1 avail hospital beds: 12,894 7/2 avail hospital beds: 11,983 7/1 avail ICU beds: 1,322 7/2 avail ICU beds: 1,181

Yes, the exponential increase in number of cases does not match the increased rate of testing.

Monday FL ICU availability was at 1,400, yesterday 1,209, today 1,042

I can about reach the net

Wow, in FL the open ICU bed was at 1,411 2 days ago... today at 1,207

I'll stop refreshing then...

Totals for all hospitals, not just covid... Here's the data texas: https://txdshs.maps.arcgis.com/apps/opsdashboard/index.html#/0d8bdf9be927459d9cb11b9eaef6101f florida: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/7572b118dc3c48d885d1c643c195314e/ As a side note, some of the dashboards that states carry are easy to read and user friendly. The data still sucks to see, but it is well presented.

Interestingly, watching hospital data in both TX and FL, and hospital admission and ICU bed use going down the last 5 days (sometimes by large amounts), despite cases on the rise there for nearly 3 weeks now.

The hope is that this doesn't spill over into other states....

So then if the 20-40 demographic is taking it to the chin, the 50+ aren't doing anything?

You can do that in IL now too.

At the end of April, the avg. cases load daily was approx 31,000, which at that time had a 2,100 person death rate per day in the US. Recently, that avg. daily case load is approx 23,000, down approximately 25% and the avg per person death rate daily is approx 750, down 65%. Even to say that the death toll is two weeks behind, the avg. daily deaths continued to fall quicker than the avg. daily case load. I can't rationalize the difference in the % changes in cases vs. deaths (this assumes a rolling average to smooth it out) but I have seen a number of articles of healthcare professionals describing the virus as less virulent and many more asymptomatic cases as of late. I'm not sure what to think of all that.... I'm a numbers person and numbers always tell a story, which is why I look at it from this perspetive.

I read that if we stopped testing then there are no cases and the problem is solved?

agreed - it seems as if the numbers have trended downward overall though across the country while cases have remained flat or staring to increase. next few weeks should be telling.

Florida stealing the show in new cases, while IL number of deaths is the highest in the country today.

Well, just going off of this from yesterday. https://fox6now.com/2020/06/16/florida-researchers-track-covid-mutation-that-suggests-virus-is-adapting-to-humans/amp/