That curve "looks good" because of the drop in cases in NY. Without NY that graph is flat. Lotsa luck.
And testing in Texas is in the bottom third of the nation per capita https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Without New York, the U.S. wouldn't be "leader of the world" in deaths. Thanks, DiBlasio and Cuomo for throwing all the nursing home residents together.
Compare New York fatalities to California, Florida and Texas (Florida and Texas are the two-flat lines at the very bottom). I'll stay here, thanks. WITHOUT NEW YORK...California, Florida Texas Covid Deaths. https://www.bing.com/covid/local/newyork_unitedstates?vert=graph
Sure. But I'm asking why the people there are so careless. They're the ones spreading it around, after all.
Yes but it should have stopped happening at least a month ago, once it was clear there was a problem with staff. In my country, new infection protocols were instituted, and so there have been no further nursing home clusters. Why would these facilities not have instituted new and much stricter protocols? Why would STAFF not do it automatically? Why would you state authorities not make those new protocols mandatory?
That's what I would love to investigate, since it seems only De Santis had common sense throughout all of this.
HUH? If you're around infected people you get infected and you infect others If you're in tight spaces like jails and nursing homes and ya know...meat packing plants...people need to be tested...often
Nursing home protocols are mandatory, and the state has started testing all nursing home residents and employees. Not that it will help much since you can't make the employees stay and live at their jobs 24/7. Texas has 150,000 nursing home workers and 80,000 residents. That doesn't include assisted-living home numbers, where residents are not a end-of-life and the staffing level ration are lower. Assisted-living centers have fewer cases and deaths with fewer employees going in and out. Texas has had 578 nursing home deaths and 940 nursing home recoveries. Gov. Abbott mandated isolating infected residents from the non-infected in mid-March, so our numbers show the huge difference from New York policies where they threw everyone in together and infected/killed 5,000 more nursing home residents than would have died with comorbid Covid infection, if Cuomo had isolated cases.
This ain't looking good... I know some of the case increases are due to increased testing, but nobody is increasing testing by upwards of 20%........ the cases are out there... that's a fact. I wish states were reporting WHO is being tested, symptomatic or asymptomatic people... SNIP Alabama had the biggest weekly increase at 28%, Missouri’s new cases rose 27% and North Carolina’s rose 26%, according to the analysis of data from The COVID Tracking Project, a volunteer-run effort to track the outbreak. Kentucky posted a nearly 30% drop in new cases and New York was down 23%, according to the Reuters analysis. ENDSNIP https://www.reuters.com/article/us-...ronavirus-cases-are-on-the-rise-idUSKBN2321WY As always, it all goes back to the lack of leadership at the federal level.... 50 different states doing essentially 50 different things on a national pandemic is just a terrible idea...
Sure, but why weren't NEW policies instituted back in March? Or April, at the latest. This would have prevented staff from bringing it in.
Particular when people are still free to travel around from place to place. Basically it renders any other efforts useless.
Nah. Some of us are pretty darned happy with our governors running the response at the state level. Half the country would be dead if someone like Cuomo or Di Blasio were in charge of national response and not just limited to "taking care" of their state and city. State sovereignty ensures the entire country doesn't sink if the wrong guy is sitting in the White House.
Not allowing family in was a new policy. Separating the infected from the get-go was a new policy (proving out how much better Texas and Florida have done with nursing homes over mismanaged states). Having all staff wear masks at all times and have their temperature taken when they get to work and sporadically through the work day was a new policy. Nothing will prevent some asymptomatic employee from going to their job for a few days before they have any symptoms. I see that 30% of Australia's 100 deaths are also related to nursing homes and those getting end-care in their homes. It's nice to live on a small, underpopulated island when a 100-year pandemic hits.
As Lesh mentioned nursing homes, prisons and meat plants have been the ground zeroes in most of the country. Manage those and have people who know they have other chronic health conditions continue to protect themselves, and things get back to normal fairly quickly.
I don't mean those obvious things, I mean pandemic level infection control protocols. Even if you're infected, if you wear all the right gear and do all the right things, you're not very likely to pass it on.
Wait .. what? How can that be? Our returning citizens go into quarantine facilities for two weeks, under police guard. Started early, and continues to this day.
It's not about "staying here" or not. The POINT...was that US numbers look reasonably good ONLY because of the DROP in numbers from NY. Remove NY and as shown above...the numbers for the rest of the country look pretty bad
