re: Louisiana COVID-19 - July 6, 2020 Update: 66,327 cases - 3,188 deaths - 813,645 tested

Hey -- how's this? I spoke with the ADON at my facility today and was told that they're no longer requiring negative tests for NEW ADMITS. BUT they still cannot be admitted without a negative TB test. W. T. F.

Wasn't the homes decision -- either the corporate office OR CMS or whomever. Still testing weekly all residents/employees who haven't been affected already.

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But the retired ER doc who was the doc at the walk in clinic in LFT who saw my daughter & tested her due to exposure (employer mandated it) said that employers shouldn't keep sending their "exposed" people over to be tested. Sigh.

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Doctors aren't wrong here but the problem is the CDC recommendations recommend a negative test before returning to work. Doctors are viewing as a supply chain issue whereas employers/employees are trying to follow federal guidelines.

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is the CDC recommendations recommend a negative test before returning to work.

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I thought they changed that??

From the CDC: Recommendation: For persons recovered from COVID-19 illness, CDC recommends that isolation be maintained for at least 10 days after illness onset and at least 3 days (72 hours) after recovery. Illness onset is defined as the date symptoms begin. Recovery is defined as resolution of fever without the use of fever-reducing medications with progressive improvement or resolution of other symptoms. Ideally, isolation should be maintained for this full period to the extent that it is practicable under rapidly changing circumstances. While this strategy can apply to most recovered persons, either a test-based strategy (if feasible) or a symptom-based strategy with more stringent requirements may be used for recovered persons for whom there is low tolerance for post-recovery SARS-CoV-2 shedding and infectious risk because they are:

Here's the link

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Yes because everyone being admitted for other diseases are being tested. When they find a positive that’s a covid hospitalization because they require isolation even though they are admitted for pancreatitis.

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Guess we are just supposed to be cool with the numbers being manipulated like this?

If they aren't sick, and asymptomatic people don't transmit covid, why do they need to be isolated?

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You're assuming testing remain constant in your chart.

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No, im not

Im simply showing people who expect this death spike to be like the first one are fools, it has already shown its nothing like the first rise in cases

Because the cases now are far different

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Also, I've read two different papers today that state that, because we have all been exposed to coronaviruses before, most of us can mount a strong immune response.

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Link?

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Im simply showing people who expect this death spike to be like the first one are fools, it has already shown its nothing like the first rise in cases

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No, you are hoping it won't spike. You are using limited testing numbers against expanded testing numbers.

We are just now learning of how widespread the virus was at the peak despite testing showing much less spread.

Other factors play into a lower death rate, but your chart doesn't show that.

Here you go .. I also linked it above with a partial quote.

Maybe I just don't understand .. always a possibility lol.

Maybe the reasoning is they are basically quarantined anyway

They have no interaction with other residents