Coronavirus - U.S. hits highest single day of new cases with more than 45,500,

[bigkid]

Kept hearing about people now showing up for tests and then getting a positive result back.  Wasn't sure what to believe bc everyone had a friend and I didn't have any 1st person knowledge of that going on down here in FL.  That was until yesterday when a friend of mine and her family cancelled their vacation and didn't show up for their testing appt.  All 8 of them received a positive test result today. 

[Thin Lizzy]

Kept hearing about people now showing up for tests and then getting a positive result back.  Wasn't sure what to believe bc everyone had a friend and I didn't have any 1st person knowledge of that going on down here in FL.  That was until yesterday when a friend of mine and her family cancelled their vacation and didn't show up for their testing appt.  All 8 of them received a positive test result today.

I’d bet there are already scammers who have figured out how to trigger false positives and use them to their advantage.


https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/testing/serology-overview.html

Common question
What do your results mean if you test positive for antibodies for the coronavirus disease?

A positive test result shows you may have antibodies from an infection with the virus that causes COVID-19, or possibly from infection with a related virus from the same family of viruses (called coronavirus), such as one that causes the common cold.

[Jizmonkey]

Well, looks like close to 400 testing centers were having their testing totals reported as 90% positive tests when they were actually closer to 9%.

That's a pretty big miss! Looks like Florida's "spike" isn't so.

Yes it is.
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/conspiracy-theorists-and-virus-deniers-amplify-and-distort-minor-data-error/2262792/%3famp

[GigantorX]

Yes it is.
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/conspiracy-theorists-and-virus-deniers-amplify-and-distort-minor-data-error/2262792/%3famp

It's really not.

Thanks for playing!

[Teutonic Knight 1]

How is nursing home life-style grandpa dearthy .............

[Humble Narcissist]

They would shut down the country for the rest of the year if they could.

[GigantorX]

More testing = more positive tests.

How many negative test results?

How's the death rate looking?

We are around the level where the CDC no longer calls this an epidemic.

[Teutonic Knight 1]

Live updates: SOMALIA blows past coronavirus record with more than 70,000 new cases in one day

Well, piss off back to Somalian refugee camp (allah will protect you ) & be happy.

[AbrahamG]

More testing = more positive tests.

How many negative test results?

How's the death rate looking?

We are around the level where the CDC no longer calls this an epidemic.

Running out of hospital beds in many hard hit areas.  Square that circle for me.

[Thin Lizzy]

Running out of hospital beds in many hard hit areas.  Square that circle for me.

Elective surgery was not allowed for three months. When the restrictions were lifted there was a backlog of patients. Everyone who goes to a hospital gets tested for COVID.

Moreover, the so-called hard hit areas experienced a heat wave in the past few weeks with temps over 100. You’re going to get an increase in the heat related illnesses. You’d think no one ever got sick prior to 2020.

[harmankardon1]

WHY IS ANNOYING COLOURED WRITING NEEDED?.

[Humble Narcissist]

Elective surgery was not allowed for three months. When the restrictions were lifted there was a backlog of patients. Everyone who goes to a hospital gets tested for COVID.

Moreover, the so-called hard hit areas experienced a heat wave in the past few weeks with temps over 100. You’re going to get an increase in the heat related illnesses. You’d think no one ever got sick prior to 2020.

Good catch.

[GigantorX]

CDC was/is also combining antibody tests with standard PCR tests.....thus inflating numbers. Several other areas of the nation were caught doing this as well.

And why can't we get actual numbers on who is in the ICU's and what they are in the ICU for?

[Thin Lizzy]

CDC was/is also combining antibody tests with standard PCR tests.....thus inflating numbers. Several other areas of the nation were caught doing this as well.

And why can't we get actual numbers on who is in the ICU's and what they are in the ICU for?

Because the whole thing is a fraud, not hoax, fraud. There’s a difference.

[Humble Narcissist]

The Kleenex company is loving this.

[GigantorX]

Health experts urge Americans to wear masks and take other precautions as coronavirus cases continue to climb

More than 150,000 people are now projected to die of Covid-19 by August 8 -- and though the US knows how to fight the virus, a health expert warns the battle is not going in the country's favor.
"We're certainly not winning the battle against coronavirus," Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the National Institutes of Health, told CNN's Wolf Blitzer Friday.
Currently, more than 3.6 million people in the country have been infected with the virus and 139,266 people have died, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. By August 8, an ensemble forecast published by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention projects that the death toll will exceed 157,000. The previous forecast, published July 9, projected roughly 147,000 coronavirus deaths by August 1.
"The jurisdictions with the greatest likelihood of a larger number of deaths include: Arizona, Florida, Idaho, Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, the Virgin Islands, and West Virginia," the CDC said on its forecasting website.

In Florida, Broward County is curtailing parties and social gatherings by implementing a nightly curfew, Mayor Dale Holness told reporters. He cited climbing cases, hospitalizations, and diminishing ICU availability as motivation for the decision.
And though the projection for the future looks bleak, Collins said the nation has gotten on top of the virus before and can do it again, if the public finds the motivation again.
"We shouldn't feel hopeless here and we know what works," Collins said. "We know that if we could, as Americans, agree to take those recommendations to heart, that we would keep our masks on when we're outside, we'd stay more than six feet apart from each other and we would avoid indoor gatherings where there's a big chance of spread, we wash our hands and all that, then we could implement what we know has worked," he said.

Cases aren't necessarily climbing. Positive test results are.

[Teutonic Knight 1]

GOP senators sound alarm as coronavirus surges in SOMALIA

 

[Teutonic Knight 1]

Health experts urge Somalians to wear masks and take other precautions as coronavirus cases continue to climb

More than 150,000 Somalians are now projected to die of Covid-19 by August 8 !.

   

[tommywishbone]

Somalia. Somalia?

There are people in Somalia that don't even have names. They simply don't count... as anything. It is absolutely impossible for any meaningful statistic to ever come from Somalia.

The virus is weak. It was always weak.

[The Scott]

Hopefully it'll take out all the Soymalians here in the U.S.A.

Dr. Fuchi (that's pronounced "FUCKIE" for Straw Manlet) is doing his midgetty bestest to pull the wool over the lower have of our face.  More and more people are testing "positive" because more and more people are being tested.

The Red Cross told me prior to my last donation that they don't test because it's not a blood born pathogen.  Now they keep calling me telling me how they would LOVE to test me.  Seems they want to find anti-bodies or any evidence of this flu.

I've decided they no longer get my rare blood.  Fuck 'em.  The real losers are all those libtards that would've been saved by receiving my blood.  Talk about being raised from the brain dead to the real world. My blood is the Red Pill for libtards.

[joswift]

Older children spread the coronavirus just as much as adults, study finds

n the heated debate over reopening schools, one burning question has been whether and how efficiently children can spread the virus to others.

A large new study from South Korea offers an answer: Children younger than age 10 transmit to others much less often than adults do, but the risk is not zero. And those between the ages of 10-19 can spread the virus at least as well as adults do.

The findings suggest that as schools reopen, communities will see clusters of infection take root that include children of all ages, several experts cautioned.

“I fear that there has been this sense that kids just won’t get infected or don’t get infected in the same way as adults and that, therefore, they’re almost like a bubbled population,” said Michael Osterholm, an infectious diseases expert at the University of Minnesota.

deaths in the UK under 19 years of age with no other conditions is 4

[Teutonic Knight 1]

Somalia. Somalia?

There are people in Somalia that don't even have names. They simply don't count... as anything. It is absolutely impossible for any meaningful statistic to ever come from Somalia.

The virus is weak. It was always weak.

I like movies about Somalia like Captain Phillips & Black Hawk Down 

[Teutonic Knight 1]

Live updates: Somalia marks another record-setting day as Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed complains about coronavirus case counting

[Ron]

Andrew Kaufman on the Highwire w/Del Bigtree 7-16-20

[Hypertrophy]

We all know SF1900 is our new resident left wing spammer. He took over from a few others here- maybe they all agree to take turns.

This is the latest on the accuracy of Covid-19 tests:

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200717005397/en/CDC-Coronavirus-Test-Kits-Generate-30-False

But then he knows that.

Getbig used to be fun when it was 50% bodybuilding 50% politics and other stuff in the G&O. Now its 10% bodybuilding.

We really need a block button to eliminate the clogging of this board by political operatives.