Posted on 05/12/2020 6:43:05 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Coronavirus infection rates are spiking to new highs in several metropolitan areas and smaller communities across the country, according to undisclosed data the White House's pandemic task force is using to track rates of infection, which was obtained by NBC News.
The data in a May 7 coronavirus task force report are at odds with President Donald Trump's declaration Monday that "all throughout the country, the numbers are coming down rapidly."
The 10 top areas recorded surges of 72.4 percent or greater over a seven-day period compared to the previous week, according to a set of tables produced for the task force by its data and analytics unit. They include Nashville, Tennessee; Des Moines, Iowa; Amarillo, Texas; and - atop the list, with a 650 percent increase - Central City, Kentucky.
On a separate list of "locations to watch," which didn't meet the precise criteria for the first set: Charlotte, North Carolina; Kansas City, Missouri; Omaha and Lincoln, Nebraska; Minneapolis; Montgomery, Alabama; Columbus, Ohio; and Phoenix. The rates of new cases in Charlotte and Kansas City represented increases of more than 200 percent over the previous week, and other tables included in the data show clusters in neighboring counties that don't form geographic areas on their own, such as Wisconsin's Kenosha and Racine counties, which neighbor each other between Chicago and Milwaukee.
The spiking infection rates suggest that the pandemic is spreading quickly outside major coastal population centers that were early hot spots, while governors of some of the states that are home to new hot spots are following Trump's advice to relax stay-at-home restrictions.
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If cases are spiking during the shutdown, then the shutdown would appear to have been an ineffectual remedy.
Comcast = Commie Cast
Are cases spiking b/c of more testing.
I’m not biting.
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And how many of those were incarcerated? They tend to skew the data as we are finding that infection rates among prisoners tend to be considerably larger than among us free birds.
Clever way to create stats.
Exactly...Herd testing in progress...
Give that man (or woman) a cigar!
If the report is unreleased, then how does Comcrap know about it?
That chart is unreadable. The article cites increases without giving hard numbers in these heartland communities. If Gopher Gulch, ND goes from 2 cases to 5, it is not a big deal. Some of these counties may be peaking because they started later. Some could be suffering from a single outbreak in a nursing home which would have happened regardless. Also, there are a LOT of heartland counties. If you have a thousand of them, dozens will go up even if they are stable overall.
Overall, an uninformative article.
Nobody was locked down.
Some businesses were closed.
Everybody made daily trips to walmart, kroger, lowes, home depot, sonic, etc.
Big box stores and chains made a killing. Mom&pop stores probably won’t make it.
Nobody stayed at home.
Yes.
A month ago, they would only test people with symptoms. Now that there's lots of test kits, they are testing lots of people, and naturally finding lots of case.
Notice that the data is in the 10’s and 100’s of cases, not tens of thousands. I’m afraid. 2 is twice that of 1. Oh my God, we are all going to die!
according to undisclosed data the White House’s pandemic task force is using to track rates of infection, which was obtained by NBC News.
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Somebody in a trusted position is leaking.
Who cares? My concern is number of deaths! Are deaths increasing?
Yes, that is why the Dumbocrats are insisting on increasing the level of testing.
Nevermind that 98% are asymptomatic, and have no physical or medical symptoms.
The Dumbocrats want the numbers inflated, even if they need to move active patients into nursing homes
where the staff is unqualified, understaffed, under trained, lack most medical protection equipment.
Inflated numbers means more Federal money reimbursement.
They could also spin this to mean “lock downs don’t work!”, if it served their agenda.
As it stands, the “flatten the curve” chart that Fauci/Birx touted predicted that social distancing stretches out the pain over a much longer period of time. No one should be surprised.
I was in Montgomery on the day they announced their first case. I was in New Orleans the day they announced their first case. (a few days before the first Montgomery case) in two months New Orleans has had how many cases and deaths? And how many in Montgomery?
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