(06-25-2020 04:59 PM)green Wrote:  

(06-25-2020 04:51 PM)cuseroc Wrote:  

(06-25-2020 03:19 PM)green Wrote:  rising infection without commensurate hospitalization or mortality implies herd immunity ...
for the uninitiated, that’s a good thing ...

YOUR WISH IS MY COMMAND

From the article:

New cases, hospitalizations and the percentage of positive tests have been on the rise for weeks, indicators that the coronavirus is spreading rapidly. Since late May, the average number of newly reported cases each day has more than doubled to about 3,500, up from 1,500. That is not just the result of more testing: The percentage of tests coming back positive has soared from 4.5% to about 9%. Hospitalizations are also on the rise.

https://twitter.com/MassivMetro/status/1...9080243201

you also neglected to mention mortality ...

SLIP ‘N SLIDE

From my understanding, doctors now know how to fight against the virus, for instance, they now know that flipping a patient on their stomach as opposed to just leaving them on their back helps to reduce the mortality. (I never knew our lungs are closer to our back than our chest) They also know that drugs like remdesivire(spelling) also reduces the mortality rate.
We likely wont see mortality rates as high as we had in in the tri-state area because of what doctors now know about the virus. Also that tri-state area has a lot more population with folks living on top of each other and during the initial onslaught of the disease it was almost unmanageable.

Keep in mind there are 4 international airports in the area that had people bringing the virus to the area from other parts of the world. It was a perfect storm and very disastrous. But the point is that this virus is spreading like wildfire in the areas that opened up too soon. Anybody could have seen this coming, except the folks in charge who opened up too early. This didnt have to happen.