Tuesday, May 5, 2020

Covid-19 Update: 32 New Deaths & 330 New Cases

Lauderdale County reports 33 deaths. 

The Mississippi State Department of Health reported 330 new cases of the Wuhan Virus as well as 32 deaths today.   The total number of cases is 8,207. The virus has caused 342 deaths.   Yesterday was the highest number of deaths caused by the Coronavirus in one day in Mississippi.




List of notable counties (deaths)
Adams: 151 (10)
Desoto: 308 (4)
Forrest: 259 (14)
Harrison: 186 (6)
Hinds: 565 (9)
Holmes: 168 (10)
Jackson: 270 (9)
Jones: 193 (2)
Lauderdale: 436 (33)
 Leake: 257 (2)
Leflore: 175 (18)
Lincoln: 155 (12)
Madison: 298 (11)
Monroe: 177 (16)
Neshoba: 243 (10)
Pearl River: 183 (20)
Pike: 160 (9)
Rankin: 221 (6)
Scott: 404 (3)
Yazoo: 154 (2)

 More information and a complete list of infected counties can be found at the MSDH website. 

The Governor and State Health Officer consider this chart to be the most important one.   The hospitalizations haven't broken the upper line of support while ICU's edged upwards.   The number of patients on ventilators has stayed flat for the past ten days. 


30 comments:

Anonymous said...

I love it when I see people walking around with their masks pulled below their nose, pulled below their chin, or even better with no mask at all.

We could reach 1 million dead by Christmas! Keep up the good work!

-Team Chaos

Anonymous said...

There is community transmission without any doubt. Contact tracing is going to be impossible. Nothing is declining over the past month, and every indication is the infection rate is getting worse. The reopening of Mississippi's economy should be slow and deliberate at this point, yet here we are with almost everything open and Tater saying the safer-at-home order will expire in less than two weeks.

The sad thing is we shouldn't be in this situation. Other countries have successfully contained the virus fairly effectively with adequate testing and follow-up. When this is all finally over the U.S. will be used as the international example of what not to do during a pandemic.

Anonymous said...

The FreeDUMB nuts will definitely keep pushing theses numbers up.

You people know exactly who you are.

Anonymous said...

So the day with the most deaths is when the governor decides to "open it back up?" Fools, all of them (and many of you).

Fuzzy Math Statistics said...

Their stats are misleading. Just because they say xx people died yesterday, doesn't mean they actually died....yesterday.

It just means the deaths were reported...yesterday...via a death certificate. The patients could have died a week or two ago.

Anonymous said...

I went to Wendy's at lunch to order my weekly triple Baconator and 10 piece spicy nuggets and they WERE OUT OF BEEF

WTF??1!!
When did we become North Korea?

Anonymous said...

@2:00 That would make sense except for the fact MSDH specifically called out the spike in deaths a few days ago to 20 was attributed to 9 deaths from earlier periods. They said nothing with this one. Also, the deaths that are reported are based on hospital & coroner reports to the MSDH, they don't wait for a death certificate. The numbers should be no more than a couple of days old except under extraordinary circumstances.

I'm more inclined to think Tater deliberately held back on the death numbers over the past few days to support his decision to reopen nonessential businesses and now he is letting it get caught back up.

Anonymous said...

OPEN IT ALL UP!

-- Team Chaos

Anonymous said...

I don't think infection rates are going up at all, I think we didn't have availability of testing a month ago. Plenty of people who had symptoms were told not to come in for a test. The hospitals are half empty and as long as they are not over flowing, we need to keep opening up.

Anonymous said...

My fellow Mississippians. We have plenty of catfish and chicken. Replace your burgers with fried catfish poboys, fully dressed.
My great grandpa states that never ate beef until he joined the Army in 1947.

Anonymous said...

The people who died today caught the virus about two weeks ago. They didn't catch the virus the same day or the day before.
Take a look at what we were doing two weeks before today.

Anonymous said...

You would think if deaths spiked that much that you would presumably see a corresponding decrease in the number of ICU patients.

Anonymous said...

and every indication is the infection rate is getting worse

Incorrect.

Anonymous said...

Dr. Dobbs did say 14 of the deaths were attributable to prior periods, so I'll admit the deaths are less than what it appeared. The 18 that are current is still a record number so we are definitely heading in the wrong direction.

Anonymous said...

@2:06, are North Korea's Wendy's not getting enough beef either?

Kingfish said...

There ya go. Encourage people to eat more fried food and get fat while there is a pandemic of a disease that preys on older fat people.

Anonymous said...

@Kingfish,
Carbos make you fat, not oils. Fat Free usually means MORE SUGAR

#Learn2Keto

Anonymous said...

I love the Team Chaos person. Keep up the good work! You give me a laugh a day.

Try an air fryer instead of frying everything. Well-seasoned food is actually pretty, pretty good from those contraptions.

I am doing my best to limit my personal and family exposure to the virus for the foreseeable future. Part of me thinks I have had it already, and the symptoms were just very mild.

Stay safe and stay smart. Let us not let Team Chaos have the last laugh.

Kingfish said...

Oh please. Even the keto stuff says avoid fried.

Anonymous said...

@3:26
Team Chaos is more than one person. We are like Project Mayhem but with social distancing.

---Team Chaos

Anonymous said...

If anyone tells you contact tracing could "contain" this virus, you can immediately disregard everything else they say.

Contact tracing is a tool for illnesses with low transmission rates, and works only when you implement it before large segments of the population are infected.

If 5% of the population have contracted an illness, contact tracing is basically impossible. Virtually everyone has been around someone with the virus.

You can't quarantine them all ... unless of course you do, which is called "aggressive social distancing," requires no contact tracing, and can't be sustained without annihilating the economy.

Given what we know about how much asymptomatic spread there was in the U.S. before March, contact tracing was a non-starter from the beginning.

Anonymous said...

Seems to be four types of people

1.) Ones trying to for the most part follow guidelines and do their part
2.) Defiant ones (includes, but not limited to, hoax ones, selfish ones, young ones who are probably asymptomatic and just spreading it around)

Well, young ones... why not? Boring is a good one to start
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3.) Complete idiots
4.) Getting desperate ones who are or are getting in a jam

Anonymous said...

every herd needs thinning from time to time-

Anonymous said...

While out and about today I would say 80% were wearing mask. If we can keep this up for the foreseeable future and continue to wash our hands we will see positive results.

Anonymous said...

@3:57 (nice)
Very nice reference, very nice! The old always blame the YOUNG ONES!

But what about the Father Ted's and Father Dougal's? And don't you go forgetting the cramped hotels and bars like Fawlty Towers

Anonymous said...

3:57: We're talking about people, not cattle you prick

Anonymous said...

@1:27 PM @1:32 PM @1:38 PM

The first three comments are made by idiots. Are they really that obtuse? I was just tested for Covid 19. I DO NOT HAVE ANY SYMPTOMS. The reason I am being tested is because I am having surgery. Before we were only testing people who had symptoms. Now we are broadening our scope and testing people who do not have symptoms but are going in for surgery. OF COURSE THE NUMBERS ARE GOING TO GO UP YOU IDIOTS. How the hell do you expect them to go down when we are testing a lot more people? It's not because we opened up the economy, it's because we're beginning to find out how wide spread this is. This new testing is going to give us a much better picture of how spread it is because we'll actually have a random sample and a percentage of those people who currently have Covid 19. Once we know how many people have had it, we'll be able to understand how dangerous this is.

And JJ, do some research into the small pox outbreak during the American Revolution and how we defeated that. Some people self quarantined, it was illegal to not report that you had small pox, and the man who would become the first President tried some alternative methods, which he was accused of wanting to kill people. Horatio Gates who wanted to replace Washington with himself used Washington's unconventional method as a means of criticizing him. But Washington's answer actually worked and saved his army.

Anonymous said...

It's just the same as the flu.

Anonymous said...

9:01 pm You take anedotal information a long way.

You have no evidence that you aren't the only person awaiting surgery who tested positive. I know 3 people and they tested negative. I'm not silly enough or dumb enough to suggest that my 3 people means only 25% of those awaiting surgery will test positive.

I hope some of you pandemic deniers are trolls who imagine yourselves either clever or more relevant. Otherwise, you are just plain stupid and stupid is killing us.










Anonymous said...

@9:01 Yes, increased testing is going to result in increased positive results. However, the number of hospitalizations shouldn't be affected by asymptomatic individuals. That number is going to be the most reliable indicator of what the virus is doing.

The hospitalization numbers are steadily increasing which would indicate the infection rate is also increasing.


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