Friday, July 10, 2020

C19 Update: Same Ole, Same Ole

Mississippi continued to receive more bad news on the Covid-19 front.  The Mississippi State Department of Health reported 1,031 new cases of the Wuhan virus yesterday as well as 11 new deaths.   The total number of cases is 34,622. The virus has caused 1,215 deaths. Nursing home deaths comprise 48% of overall Covid-19 deaths in Mississippi. There are 22,167 recoveries.  More information and a complete list of infected counties can be found at the MSDH website.  The Rt factor is 1.18.


Hospitalizations, ICUs, and vents? Just look at the damn chart below.   Nothing is improving.


The Rt value continues to remain above 1.0 as well.   Match up the dates from the hospitalizations and Rt charts. 



27 comments:

Anonymous said...

All of this, as in these numbers, yet the popular attitude in Madison and Rankin Co’s seems to be:

"I’m not wearing no mask!”

Source: https://www.wapt.com/article/metro-residents-businesses-prepare-for-increased-covid-19-restrictions/33278447

Anonymous said...

Went to Zeek's in Flowood this evening and only one employee was wearing a mask. When we asked one of the employees why she wasn't wearing a mask, she seemed nice at first and said she didn't know what the rules were. Then after further discussion she dropped the act and got pissy saying she knew what the rules were but the governor couldn't make her wear a mask. My friend said he thought the health department could fine the business (I don't even know if this is true?), to which she said she didn't care because it wasn't her business. Then she tried to act like it was ok because she was in the back not interacting with customers...though she was about 3 feet from our table when we asked her why no mask. Then throughout our time there, we saw her delivering food to tables, taking orders at the register, cleaning tables and she even took our empty trays at our table while we were still there.

Anonymous said...

10:47 You can actually call the health department on these businesses next week.

Anonymous said...

So why didn't you leave the restaurant if you saw multiple employees not wearing masks? If you feel that masks are necessary, why would you let an unmasked server get within 3 feet of you and late remove items from your table? Can't you do common sense things to protect yourself without relying on government to do it for you?

Anonymous said...

10:47, next time maybe you could just leave and go eat somewhere else, and tell the staff (or manager) why you're leaving. Just a thought.

Or, would you rather stay fight for your right for others to wear masks, while they fight for their right to not be told what to do, all the while exposing yourself to what you clearly believe to be an unsafe environment?

Anonymous said...

Hospitalizations have gone up 40% in just two weeks. The death rate is starting to rapidly increase. Any semblance of control is gone and the spread is untraceable. It is going to take a wake up call to get people to act responsibly. The spread is worst among the younger crowd so shut down fraternities, bars, nightclubs, and sports. Try to stop the large gatherings where the spread is rampant.

For what it’s worth, the Washington Post shows Mississippi’s weekly COVID death rate as second highest in the nation and increasing. We’re close, Just a little more effort and we can pass Arizona for #1.

Anonymous said...

If you dine-in at a public restaurant in a location considered to be in the midst of an outbreak during a global viral pandemic, you are obviously brave. Your mask shaming hints you probably brought along a loved one considered to be at a higher risk. Maybe stay home and make your own gyros next time?

Anonymous said...

Deaths rates are decreasing. Let's get back to normality and stop taking the bait.

Anonymous said...

@10:47pm - I have no idea why anyone would go inside any restaurant right now unless you’re trying to get infected.

Anonymous said...

Defensive ignorance seems to be the Mississippi baseline.

Anonymous said...

We are screwed any way we go, politics has us by the short hairs, until we replace them all.

Anonymous said...

no need to fear. only an iceberg. just grazed the side. it’s going to melt. white star says this ship is unsinkable..

yeah. make the choice yourself. uncomfortable with unmasked people/employees? just do takeout. don’t listen to the porter. get to the lifeboat yourself.

with the poor decisions being made by our society, expect another year while most of the world goes on..

Anonymous said...

Al Gore invented the face mask.

Anonymous said...

@12:20 The death rate is a trailing indicator. In other words, deaths lag infections. You have to be infected before you can die from it. Because the infections are surging, the denominator is this equation is increasing. Give it a month and the deaths will catch up.

Anonymous said...

Can anyone, with clarity and not just throwing numbers about, tell me the total number of tests that have been performed in this state? I'd appreciate a link versus a SWAG, as I have yet to find one. I'd also like to find the number of tests that were negative for infection. Statements used to stir panic or discord, "Hospitalizations have gone up 40% in just two weeks. The death rate is starting to rapidly increase. Any semblance of control is gone and the spread is untraceable. For what it’s worth, the Washington Post shows Mississippi’s weekly COVID death rate as second highest in the nation and increasing. We’re close, Just a little more effort and we can pass Arizona for #1." also don't do any good. The so called being second is a straight up bald face lie. If you can't help, get back into your closet.

Anonymous said...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1103688/coronavirus-covid19-deaths-us-by-state/

Anonymous said...

12:20 Did you look at the death-by-date chart on the MSDH site? It has started climbing a lot in the past week. That’s what happens after the epidemic gets out of control, the young bring it home to parents, grandparents, and coworkers, and then they too get sick. It takes a few weeks to see the impact, and we are now seeing the fruits of the massive ignorance of even minimal mitigation after Memorial Day. It is going to get much worse, but people are too stupid to comprehend how an infectious disease works.

Anonymous said...

856. We’ve have had weeks of 700-900 daily new infections. Treatments aren’t improved enough to prolong life. We should see daily deaths in the dozens....we aren’t.

Anonymous said...

An increased number in positive Covid cases could be directly related to a Jackson annual 4th of July River Party. Supposedly, a number of private high school students that were positive attended the party, anyway. They infected many of the hundreds in attendance. Young adults seem to think they are immune.

Calm Down said...

With all of this angst over whether to wear a mask, you might think that there was a definitive study that masks actually are effective at preventing viral transmission. I haven't seen one.

Anonymous said...

What treatment is being used? My understanding is that hydrochloriquine and zinc method that has been used successfully in other states and countries is not used in MS, only the rendesivir family of drugs is being used. Shouldn’t every available treatment be offered and used in order to treat this illness? A treatment that works for me may not work on another, so it seems shortsighted to be limited to one family of drugs.

Anonymous said...

9:31 is that some sort of answer, or just babble? Infections do not equate to the same number of people being ill. Their is no true and fast treatment other than what we are seen used (see 10:23).

Anonymous said...

Hey 11:11 where can I pick up my shorts and brown shirt?

Anonymous said...

So why not convert the trade mart, coliseum or vacant office/retail to corona virus only treatment centers. There is slot of vacant space and the government did much larger projects in New York.

Anonymous said...

A few thoughts:

1. Again, I would suggest correcting the reporting on "Presumed Recovered" and "Rt factor." Even the sources of this information do not present them as absolute numbers but rather as presumptions or assumptions. The difference between the two is very important.

2. As others have pointed out here and many other places, deaths will absolutely lag "tested positive"/"number of infections" numbers.

3. Most importantly, COVID-19 is not, repeat *not*, a binary outcome illness. Most of those infected will have an outcome on the spectrum of possible outcomes, i.e., most will neither die nor simply "get well" in a couple of weeks. Most will have weeks of unpleasant effects (or worse), many will have life-altering effects, and only some will either simply "get well" in a couple of weeks or die.

One thing every medical professional I know (and I know a lot of them, both professionally and socially) finds truly mind-boggling is the number of people who would normally and generally trust us when we tell them simple medical facts (and that mirrors what the vast majority of other meds are also asserting as fact) yet absolutely refuse to trust or believe what they are being told by the vast number of medical professionals about this virus and COVID-19. It is like telling a person they have appendicitis and need an appendectomy and they respond by saying that they don't believe you and they will be fine if they eat a pepperoni pizza (and only pepperoni, not sausage or ham or...) and rub pickle juice on their scalp.

What makes it all the more difficult to understand is that the sources of their completely misinformed ideas are totally devoid of any medical education, training or experience. One very understandable but very troubling consequence of this widespread trend is that many medical professionals are being pushed towards giving up what appears to be beating their heads against the seeming brick wall of willful ignorance. I can say without the slightest hesitation that the last thing anyone wants is an apathetic doctor, nurse, or other healthcare professional providing healthcare to you or anyone you care about.

Fully knowing I'm beating my head against the brick wall of willful ignorance, if for whatever reason you now believe that masks and distancing aren't crucial, please reconsider. Neither will guarantee that you will not become infected or infect others, but nearly every medical professional can and will guarantee that if everyone would do so, it will absolutely and without question reduce the rate of transmission. That will reduce the number of people who will fall somewhere on the spectrum of illness as well as those who die. The alternative is that the rate of transmission is not reduced and the state and federal governments will be obligated by the very constitutions that so many cite to take increasingly restrictive actions.

Anonymous said...

Why are the people demanding that everyone wear masks coming out in the public?
Don't they know they are passing along the virus? Why can't they stay at home where they belong instead of taking the chance on giving the disease to other people?
Stay at home. You can wear all of the masks your little heart desires. You will not get the virus. What is wrong with staying at home? If you are too delicate to get around other people staying home is the right thing to do.

Anonymous said...

Punishment for not wearing a mask? Will a person simply be cited, or will a brazen cop actually arrest someone for this? Jail? Fines? Probation? Death penalty?


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