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Posted on 06/24/2020 3:39:00 PM PDT by lightman
Gov. Tom Wolf said Wednesday he expects COVID-19 to surge again in Pennsylvania this fall. But he said preparations and lessons learned during months when the state was shut down may enable us to weather it without a repeat of the shut down.
The advantages if faced with a second wave include increased hospital preparedness and capacity, expanded testing and expanding contact tracing to find and isolate people who have been exposed. Wolf said Pennsylvania now has capacity for 16,000 tests per day -- more than the total tested in March -- and has nearly 600 contact tracers, with plans to add more.
“I think we are in a much better place,” he said. Still, he noted he can’t predict the future.
Wolf also said people and businesses now fully understand how to social distance and the need for it, as well as the need for things including staying home and getting tested if sick, frequent hand-washing and wearing a mask in public.
Wolf and Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine spoke during a visit to Penn State Health Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.
Both repeatedly stressed the need to wear face masks in public, and said it makes no sense that it has become a political issue of Democrats largely complying with the recommendation and many supporters of President Donald Trump dismissing the need.
Levine said “study after study” prove that wearing a mask can block some of the droplets from people who are carrying COVID-19 but feeling no symptoms, or who are in the early stage and not yet feeling sick. Scientists believe both groups can spread the disease through droplets released during coughing, sneezing, talking and breathing.
She said wearing masks is essential to getting through a second wave with minimal harm.
Wolf likened wearing a mask in public to obeying stop signs.
“Imagine if only liberals or only conservatives stopped at stop signs,” he said.
Wolf and Levine visited the medical center to stress the COVID-19 preparations that are in place against a resurgence and to thank the medical center staff for their work in caring for the sick and preventing spread.
Wolf said that based on a seven day rolling average Pennsylvania has the longest streak of declining cases in the country.
“All of you are on the front lines and all of you are responsible for that statistic I talked about,” he said, referring to the streak.
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here is what is happening in texas
from texags:
eidetic784:53pAG
test TATs are still variable. Depends on the lab, their capacity, the demand, etc..
My lab (Tx med center) is getting ~70% of tests reported out in ~24 hours, ~92% of tests out in less than 48 hrs and >98% in under 4 days.
But there are some that have to be re-run due to either too low of a human signal (which can signal a poor sample collection, mishandled sample, etc...), or if only one of the two viral genes being tested for is found (could be false positive, or could be true positive but on the limit of detection of the assay)
Samples falling into those situations are re-run a second time to make sure before being reported out.
We’ve also seen our demand as well as positive rate shoot up this past week.
As an anecdote, we were averaging a 4-5% positive rate for April and May. Our positive rate is relatively low because we process about half congregate site blanket testing and half drive-up sites. Of the ~600 tests we’ve processed so far today (again about half and half from congregate sites and drive up), our positive percentage on the day is ~19%
“Gov. Tom Wolf said Wednesday he expects COVID-19 to surge again in Pennsylvania this fall”
You mean he hopes their is a second wave so he can continue being the king.
IOW...no Trump rallies in September...October...OR November!
Here’s a novel idea: Just remove all CCP Virus-related regulations and let the virus do its thing. Then there won’t be a new surge in the fall - it will have played out as herd immunity takes over.
This “need” (for Wolf’s and now Newsom’s soul/economy-crushing diktats will persist right up to the first Tuesday in November. The Democrat/Left has already moved the ever-changing goalposts to “control” this Chinese flu to within six weeks of Trump’s re-election. It’s crystal clear that all of this — ALL of it — is primarily, if not purely, political. Should Trump win, the Democrat/Left loses all — politically, they’re OUT should he win!
This is a very intelligent virus that only attacks the elderly, taxpayers, law-abiding citizens, and small businesses. It has no effect on shoppers in Walmarts, curbside pickups from restaurants, looting, rioting, and malcontents who call themselves peaceful protesters. Just amazing.
“...offers hope it won’t force new round of school and business closings”
Don’t worry, it won’t.
We played along with you this one time...
There will be no more closures ever. My freedom will not be stolen from me.
20-29 year olds in hayes county texas continue to have a huge spike
the mayor of one of the towns posts on texags
Or it will have completed its mission to kill everyone it intended on killing and retire quietly....
Yep.
I want to catch this virus so I can train it to make my bed and a cup of coffee before I leave the house every morning.
Right you are. These Rat bastards are also banking on a federal bailout of their states if Biden steals the election. Count on it.
Biden (really his puppet masters) will give $50 billion from the Treasury to each Rat state, and zero, zilch to Republican states.
If Biden gets in, expect gold to go up ten thousand an ounce.
Here’s a novel idea: Just remove all CCP Virus-related regulations and let the virus do its thing. Then there won’t be a new surge in the fall - it will have played out as herd immunity takes over.
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Sure. Who needs all those old people anyway?
PA Health Secretary - transgender / Rachel Levine moved his mother from nursing home as deaths skyrocketed
.. while ordering assisted living facilities to accept sick patients / killing elderly residents. for more federal Medicare money..
The transgender has blood on his hands for killing at risk, with pre-existing conditions, seniors..
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3844726/posts
I don’t put it past him to spread it using a crop duster with a new and improved virus from the ccp. He and his “buddy” Rachel might even just hit the rural counties.
...or if only conservatives or only liberals paid taxes. Oh, wait...
He’ll do it just to be on the safe side. (/sarc)
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