(06-11-2020 05:51 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  Update on the situation at my sister's Senior Residential Living facility:

In addition to the two stafffers I mentioned earlier, three residents have contracted the virus and at least two are hospitalized. My sister was tested and was negative. The facility remains on lockdown - no visitors, no in/out.

(06-12-2020 10:34 PM)westsidewolf1989 Wrote:  

(06-11-2020 05:51 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  Update on the situation at my sister's Senior Residential Living facility:

In addition to the two stafffers I mentioned earlier, three residents have contracted the virus and at least two are hospitalized. My sister was tested and was negative. The facility remains on lockdown - no visitors, no in/out.

I don't know if this is an idea your sister's facility would go for, but my grandmother is in an assisted living facility and my mother was just able to recently "visit" with her for the first time by driving by the circle driveway for the facility and having my grandmother wheeled out by a caregiver to outside the passenger side of the car and rolling down the windows of the car.

The facility my grandmother is at had a resident test positive (asymptomatic) and isolated. My other grandmother is in independent living, but the assisted living building at her retirement home had a few workers test positive.

(06-16-2020 05:44 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  Get ready for a lot of Texas stories nationally on Covid 19 - Texas may end up doubling its single-day high in new cases today alone (it almost certainly will be more than 4000 in the state today). A lot of it is big cities. But a lot of it is prisons too.

Brazoria County had 550 new cases today. They have a few bigger cities in the northern part of the county (Pearland and perhaps Alvin), but I'll bet you most of those cases come from the prison units in the southern part of the county.

Anderson County (Palestine) had 880 new cases today! The entire county only has 58,000 people, but again that county operates some very big prisons I believe.

(06-16-2020 05:44 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  Get ready for a lot of Texas stories nationally on Covid 19 - Texas may end up doubling its single-day high in new cases today alone (it almost certainly will be more than 4000 in the state today). A lot of it is big cities. But a lot of it is prisons too.

Brazoria County had 550 new cases today. They have a few bigger cities in the northern part of the county (Pearland and perhaps Alvin), but I'll bet you most of those cases come from the prison units in the southern part of the county.

Anderson County (Palestine) had 880 new cases today! The entire county only has 58,000 people, but again that county operates some very big prisons I believe.

(06-17-2020 09:40 AM)Hambone10 Wrote:  Significantly more testing is taking place than before. Before, we were focused on the symptomatic and making sure we had resources to care for people. Now we're concerned with the asymptomatic as more of an academic pursuit as our resources were NOT overwhelmed. This shouldn't (though it often is) be confused with a higher transmission rate.

As people go back to work, one of the protocols for returning is mandatory testing. You are by definition going to now catch asymptomatic people.... who DO spread the disease, but at an exponentially lower rate.

(06-17-2020 04:31 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  

(06-17-2020 09:40 AM)Hambone10 Wrote:  Significantly more testing is taking place than before. Before, we were focused on the symptomatic and making sure we had resources to care for people. Now we're concerned with the asymptomatic as more of an academic pursuit as our resources were NOT overwhelmed. This shouldn't (though it often is) be confused with a higher transmission rate.

As people go back to work, one of the protocols for returning is mandatory testing. You are by definition going to now catch asymptomatic people.... who DO spread the disease, but at an exponentially lower rate.

My next door neighbor is the manager for about a dozen urgent care-type places in the Houston area. He was hoping business would pick up because they are one of the places companies can use to test employees going back to work for Covid 19, but he said it's still incredibly slow at his company.

There are certainly more tests being done but the numbers are also going up because people are getting lax in their diligence on social distancing, wearing masks, etc. Look at Hays County with its 155 new cases yesterday - more than half of the new cases are folks in the 20-29 age group. Those aren't people going back to work - those are people partying in the college towns (San Marcos) or going tubing down the Guadalupe. Bexar County is another area where young people in particular are getting infected at higher rates than the national average.

Governor Abbott did seem pretty annoyed with the numbers increasing, and he did single out young people ignoring some of the guidelines. Between that, and the prisons, industrial plants, nursing homes, etc., it's clear that a lot of the cases are coming from obvious sources.

(06-17-2020 04:31 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  

(06-17-2020 09:40 AM)Hambone10 Wrote:  Significantly more testing is taking place than before. Before, we were focused on the symptomatic and making sure we had resources to care for people. Now we're concerned with the asymptomatic as more of an academic pursuit as our resources were NOT overwhelmed. This shouldn't (though it often is) be confused with a higher transmission rate.

As people go back to work, one of the protocols for returning is mandatory testing. You are by definition going to now catch asymptomatic people.... who DO spread the disease, but at an exponentially lower rate.

My next door neighbor is the manager for about a dozen urgent care-type places in the Houston area. He was hoping business would pick up because they are one of the places companies can use to test employees going back to work for Covid 19, but he said it's still incredibly slow at his company.

There are certainly more tests being done but the numbers are also going up because people are getting lax in their diligence on social distancing, wearing masks, etc. Look at Hays County with its 155 new cases yesterday - more than half of the new cases are folks in the 20-29 age group. Those aren't people going back to work - those are people partying in the college towns (San Marcos) or going tubing down the Guadalupe. Bexar County is another area where young people in particular are getting infected at higher rates than the national average.

Governor Abbott did seem pretty annoyed with the numbers increasing, and he did single out young people ignoring some of the guidelines. Between that, and the prisons, industrial plants, nursing homes, etc., it's clear that a lot of the cases are coming from obvious sources.

(06-18-2020 02:45 PM)At Ease Wrote:  Might need to bump him up to an A-.

(06-18-2020 03:51 PM)mrbig Wrote:  

(06-18-2020 02:45 PM)At Ease Wrote:  Might need to bump him up to an A-.

With outbreaks getting worse in Florida, Texas, and Arizona, have there been any additional studies (I haven't heard of any, but I haven't been looking that diligently) on whether experts think Covid-19 will have a strong seasonal component? I know a few people around here back in March seemed to think there would be one, but now that we are seeing lots of 90-degree weather in the southern USA, we might start to get a better picture.

(06-18-2020 03:58 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(06-18-2020 03:51 PM)mrbig Wrote:  

(06-18-2020 02:45 PM)At Ease Wrote:  Might need to bump him up to an A-.

With outbreaks getting worse in Florida, Texas, and Arizona, have there been any additional studies (I haven't heard of any, but I haven't been looking that diligently) on whether experts think Covid-19 will have a strong seasonal component? I know a few people around here back in March seemed to think there would be one, but now that we are seeing lots of 90-degree weather in the southern USA, we might start to get a better picture.

Probably not strong. Maybe weak. Gleaned from press reports, not studies.

(06-18-2020 05:18 PM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  Hays County (San Marcos area) is becoming a hot spot (in addition to the big cities in the state). Over 200 cases today alone in that county and most are in San Marcos and are younger people (30 and under). Apparently, almost all of those cases have been involved in protests, tubing and visiting bars (probably all 3 in many cases).

ETA - Hays County is just over 200K in population so 200 cases in a county that size is a lot - and you can't pin it all on prisons or a meat processing plant.