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Posted on 8/19/20 at 9:57 pm to The Boat
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I'm sure Louisiana is cooking the books, too.
By starting with, ......a roux. You guessed it.
Posted on 8/19/20 at 9:58 pm to BRgetthenet
This post was edited on 8/19/20 at 9:58 pm
Posted on 8/19/20 at 10:02 pm to Privateer 2007
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Shouldn't "case" and "death" curves be the same shape, yet just shifted 3 weeks or so?
On a bar napkin theory level - sure.
Changing demographics actually getting sick, or getting tested as well as differences in regional health care, and evolving treatments among a variety of other factors can change it.
Posted on 8/19/20 at 10:08 pm to Bullfrog
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they continue to test more and find more cases to make decisions on.
Decisions should be made mostly on the basis of hospital capacity but they’re not.
It’s a multi prong approach. More tests means more cases documented but also ideal should mean lower positivity rate.
Rate and density of spread through a population will obviously effect the anticipated hospital needs.
Where I see the discussion fall apart is people thinking cases only went up due to high testing despite positivity rate also rising. Heavy testing and inclusion of lower risk people should see the positivity rate drop and indicate less risk to health care facilities even if picking up a few more cases in the total count
Posted on 8/20/20 at 4:27 am to The Boat
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"Covid deaths are a lagging indicator"
Are they?
Yes.
What kind of question is this?
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People love to say that to reason with why Louisiana's deaths are staying suspiciously high. Hospitalizations and deaths in Arizona. The charts rise, peak, and fall at the exact same time. The deaths chart is slightly offset so it looks a little off but they both peak in the July 15-17 time frame.
There are only two ways to become “un-hospitalized”.. you either go home or you die.
Show me the LA chart with suspiciously high death rates that you’re referring to? The Arizona chart is kind of useless without that context. I’m willing to bet money that the difference has to do with the “date” being the actual date of death (meaning new deaths reported today are plotted against the day they occurred, effectively changing the past data each day) vs. the date of report (meaning all new deaths reported today, regardless of when they happened, are plotted on today’s date).
That’s why your AZ chart shows less than 20 deaths per day for the past week (falling to basically zero) despite the fact that Arizona reported 105 new deaths today and 148 new deaths on August 12.
Posted on 8/20/20 at 7:41 am to The Boat
We have a bunch of black people that don't abide by any social distancing or mask wearing policies while out in the street. I saw a bunch of BLM protesters and the only people not wearing masks were some black men.
Posted on 8/20/20 at 8:03 am to NoSaint
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Changing demographics actually getting sick, or getting tested as well as differences in regional health care, and evolving treatments among a variety of other factors can change it.
I was thinking more along the lines of when a guy who tested positive dies in a car wreck driving home from the clinic is added to the death list it tends to skew the numbers a bit.
This post was edited on 8/20/20 at 8:05 am
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