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[SoxFan]

Coronavirus Update

Fun Fact: last week was the first week we had over 300,000 new cases. We will break 400,000 this week

Testing is and will be a catastrophe when schools get back. If there are long lines now what the hell is going to happen when schools come back?


+ equals increase over prior day
- equals decrease over prior day

Last 7 days Moving Averages: ending July 13

New Cases: 67,197 + 32st day---------------New Deaths: 884 + 8th day

Number of tests 43,252,833 tested positive 3,479,483 : 8% = 26th day

Serious or in Critical Condition: 15,934 + 7th day

Active Cases: 1,791,767 + 30th day

Recovered - 1,549,469

Case Fatality Rate = deaths/(recovered + dead): 8% = 2nd day


Start on -------------6/16 ----------------- 6/23 --------------------------6/30 ---------------------7/7--------------------------7/13

Total Cases: -----2,208,400 ------------- 2,424,168 ----------------2,779,953 --------------3,097,084 ------------------3,479,483

New Cases:-------25,450 -----------------36,015 ----------------46,042------------------------55,442---------------------65,488 +


Deaths:-------------119,132 ------------------124,281 ---------------130,122 ------------------133,972-------------------138,247


New Deaths:--------- 849 ---------------------- 863 ------------------764 ------------------------994-------------------------465 +



https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

[fuagf]

Miami Becomes New Epicenter Of Coronavirus | Morning Joe | MSNBC

"All the President’s Lies About the Coronavirus "

•Jul 14, 2020

First Wuhan. Then NY. Now Miami-Dade. Estimation given, three weeks to peak.

Many still defiant about wearing masks, washing hands and social distancing.

[fastlizzy]

He’s going into the Guiness book for most lies by a president.

For real!

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How Many People in the U.S. Are Hospitalized With COVID-19? Who Knows?

"All the President’s Lies About the Coronavirus"

The Trump administration told hospitals to stop reporting data to the CDC, and report it to HHS instead. Vice President Mike Pence said the information would continue to be released publicly. It hasn’t worked out as promised.

by Charles Ornstein July 31, 2:15 p.m. EDT


The intensive care unit at OakBend Medical Center in Richmond, Texas, on July 15. Hospitals are supposed
to report data to the federal government each day about the COVID-19 patients they are treating.
(Mark Felix/AFP via Getty Images)

In mid-July, the Trump administration instructed hospitals to change the way they reported data on their coronavirus patients, promising the new approach would provide better, more up-to-the-minute information about the virus’s toll and allow resources and supplies to be quickly dispatched across the country.

Instead, the move has created widespread confusion, leaving some states in the dark about their hospitals’ remaining bed and intensive care capacity and, at least temporarily, removing this information from public view. As a result, it has been unclear how many people are in hospitals being treated for COVID-19 at a time when the number of infected patients nationally has been soaring.

Hospitalizations for COVID-19 have been seen as a key metric of both the coronavirus’s toll and the health care system’s ability to deal with it.

Since early in the pandemic, hospitals had been reporting data on COVID-19 patients to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention through its National Healthcare Safety Network, which traditionally tracks hospital-acquired infections.

In a memo dated July 10 .. https://www.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/covid-19-faqs-hospitals-hospital-laboratory-acute-care-facility-data-reporting.pdf , the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services told hospitals to abruptly change course — to stop reporting their data to the CDC and instead to submit it to HHS through a new portal run by a company called TeleTracking. The change took effect within days. Vice President Mike Pence said the administration would continue releasing the data publicly, as the CDC had done.

Almost immediately, the CDC pulled its historical data offline .. https://www.propublica.org/article/out-of-view-after-public-outcry-cdc-adds-hospital-data-back-to-its-website-for-now , only to repost it under pressure a couple days later. Meanwhile the website for the administration’s new portal promised to update numbers on a daily basis, but, as of Friday morning, the site hadn’t been updated since July 23. (HHS is posting some data daily on a different federal website but not representative estimates for each state.)

“The most pernicious portion of it is that at the state level and at the regional level we lost our situational awareness,” said Dave Dillon, spokesman for the Missouri Hospital Association. “At the end of this, we may have a fantastic data product out of HHS. I will not beat them up for trying to do something positive about the data, but the rollout of this has been absolutely a catastrophe.”

[...]

Making matters more complicated, the administration has changed the information that it is requiring hospitals to report, adding many elements, such as the age range of admitted COVID-19 patients, and removing others. As of this week, for instance, HHS told hospitals to stop reporting .. https://help.cl-teletracking.com/en-us/c19/Content/covid-19/release_notes.htm .. the total number of deaths they’ve had since Jan. 1, the total number of COVID-19 deaths and the total number of COVID-19 admissions. (Hospitals still report daily figures, just not historical ones.)

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Dillon of the Missouri Hospital Association said the administration could have handled this differently. For big technology projects, he noted, there is often a well-publicized transition with information sessions, an educational program and, perhaps, running the old system and the new one in parallel.

This “was extremely abrupt,” he said. “That is not akin to anything you would expect from HHS about how you would implement a program.”

https://www.propublica.org/article/how-many-people-in-the-us-are-hospitalized-with-covid-19-who-knows