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COVID-19 cases creeping up — and hot weather could be to blame
timesunion ^ | 08/01/2024 | H. Rose Schneider

Posted on 08/02/2024 8:23:51 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

If it seems you’re getting more and more messages from co-workers, friends or attendees at that family barbecue about a positive COVID-19 test, it’s not in your head. While COVID-19 hospitalizations are still far lower than previous years, they’re steadily trending up this summer — both statewide and in the Capital Region.

“We have seen a jump this month, but the good thing is we’re nowhere where we were two years ago,” Albany County Department of Health Interim Commissioner Maribeth Miller told the Times Union.

With at-home testing prevalent, officials now rely on hospitalization rates to track the disease. Last month, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced COVID-19 hospital admissions were more than twice as high as this time last year, though still well below rates during the same period in 2022. In the statement, state Department of Health Commissioner Dr. James McDonald suggested the summer heat may be partly to blame. Miller agreed.

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KEYWORDS: cases; covid; hot; weather
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I am not getting any messages from anybody about Covid. Rose is demented.
1 posted on 08/02/2024 8:23:51 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Here we go. SMH


2 posted on 08/02/2024 8:25:28 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There is nothing the left can’t blame on climate change.


3 posted on 08/02/2024 8:25:31 AM PDT by dartuser
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Its’ election season. The covid scam is going to make an appearance. Just as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west.


4 posted on 08/02/2024 8:27:57 AM PDT by Indy Pendance (Jesus can't get here soon enough!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27
Hot weather, cold weather, wet weather, dry weather.

Fear-mongering propaganda is so easy.

5 posted on 08/02/2024 8:29:44 AM PDT by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell>)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I know 3 people who have got it over the past 3 weeks.
All reported flu like symptoms and were over it in a week or less.


6 posted on 08/02/2024 8:31:07 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Vax weakened immune systems.


7 posted on 08/02/2024 8:31:41 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

There must be bodies everywhere.


8 posted on 08/02/2024 8:35:51 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire, or both.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Idiot alert!


9 posted on 08/02/2024 8:37:01 AM PDT by StrictConstructionist
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Time to wear masks that don’t work and take boosters that don’t work or lose your job.


10 posted on 08/02/2024 8:37:17 AM PDT by bray (It's not racist to be racist against races the DNC hates.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Check out the author’s bio.

She’s part of the paper’s “rapid response team”.

WTH is that?!

Rapid response to what?!

Threats to Deep State...?

If that’s the case, then that would explain a lot, wouldn’t it.


11 posted on 08/02/2024 8:40:42 AM PDT by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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Perfect. Tie scamdemic to climate change.


12 posted on 08/02/2024 8:43:33 AM PDT by xoxox
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cuz it was really the flu.


13 posted on 08/02/2024 8:44:02 AM PDT by xoxox
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s like a cold or flu, people get it, people get over it.


14 posted on 08/02/2024 8:44:58 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Funny…i don’t remember many Americans catching the Flu (or COVID) prior to the vaccines


15 posted on 08/02/2024 8:51:38 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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***and hot weather could be to blame***

I don’t think so. It is obviously the coming election that is to blame (see election of 2020).


16 posted on 08/02/2024 8:53:24 AM PDT by systemjim (Lifetime Lover of Music)
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I don’t know, it put my 83 yo mom in the hospital last week. She’s been vaxxed and boosted. Third time she has had covid. She passed out, hit the floor and my dad called the ambulance. The hospital didn’t do any scans to see if she suffered a stroke. I guess they just didn’t think it was necesary. She also suffers from dementia these days.


17 posted on 08/02/2024 8:53:54 AM PDT by TBall
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To: ChicagoConservative27

C ommunist
O rignated
V ote
I ntegrity
D estroyer.

Notice that the Dems are the only ones obsessively “testing” and then trumpeting their alleged “positive” results.

I call it the Donk Disease.


18 posted on 08/02/2024 8:54:15 AM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: 1Old Pro

I guess the term “summer cold” is now archaic?


19 posted on 08/02/2024 8:54:27 AM PDT by Right Brother (From Biden to Harris. From pee pads to kneepads.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

20 posted on 08/02/2024 9:03:53 AM PDT by Allegra (Make America Weird)
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