Somehow i missed your reply until now. Thanks for the link. Looks like an interesting book (since I’m so late I may give it for birthdays rather than Christmas)
Yes, the way we process information has significantly changed. Fascinating subject
the city decided to shut the center down in 2018 as a cost-saving measure. They consolidated their operations with a dispatch center in Mundelein. That consolidation was finalized in June of this year.
So they couldn't staff a center they were in the process of shutting down? Therefore, it's an emergency that retirees have to cover for free.
Gee, I'd love to see the actual wording of the state law and the retiree's retirement/separation verbiage.
Case numbers may be ‘juiced’ a bit (how they are counted, increased testing etc), but the increase is real here in So Cal. Some early indicators suggest we may be close to a peak, but will have to wait and see.
NY,NJ,CT,MI had their outbreak in March/April—no “curve flattening”. Other states flattened their curve. Flattening the curve was to delay or slow the outbreak to prevent hospitals from being overwhelmed. It was not designed to eliminate the disease. What you are now seeing is the delay in the states that “flattened the curve”
NY had positive testing rates as high as 50% in the midst of their outbreak in early April. They have been as low as single digits in the last month or two, hovering around 10%
Dont forget the transfer of COVID19 patients into the nursing homes. Havent looked at state policies on COVID19 patients into nursing homes, but off the top of my head - NY, NJ, PA, MI, VA
Here’s another article from 5/18/2020 with some information on the reactions. If this is what they are talking about, this is typical of vaccines which stimulate an immune response
. . . Of the 30 patients who received the two lowest doses, only one reported a side effect considered to be grade 3: redness around the injection site. Three people who got the highest dose, 250 mcg, developed grade 3 systemic symptoms, including fever, muscle pain and headache, Moderna Chief Medical Officer Tal Zaks, M.D., Ph.D., said on a call discussing the data. Although the side effects were temporary and went away on their own, Moderna wont carry the highest dose into future trials. . .
Grade 3 Severe or medically significant but not
immediately life-threatening; hospitalization or prolongation of hospitalization indicated; disabling; limiting self care ADL**.