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I miss your breakdown Mr.Mayor.I’m sure that you don’t miss the negativity however. Be well.
Exactly. The negativity was getting overwhelming. The point is to make the information available, not to have daily conflict. Good job balancing
I also miss Claycord’s daily chart
@Susan – It’s possible the Mayor is on vacation. The previous daily updates were created manually and I suspect were time consuming as they appeared to be manually created screen-shots and then cropping of the data that appears on https://www.coronavirus.cchealth.org/ plus a screen shot and then cropping of the Cases by Location table at https://www.coronavirus.cchealth.org/dashboard plus computing the number of active cases and mentioning that in the article.
The new updates seem to be created automatically at exactly 11:30 each morning. The Mayor can focus on more interesting things.
Today the county reported the 50th death from COVID-19. It was someone in the over 90 age group.
Well I am glad this hyperbole is subsiding.
as of 06/17 @ 11:30am:
2,071 confirmed cases in CCC with 50 deaths = 2.41% death rate.
According to Dr. Deborah Birx and other experts the death toll is inflated by as much as 25%.
As of 6/17 @ 11:30 am:
2,071 confirmed cases in CCC with as few as 38 deaths = 1.83% death rate among confirmed cases.
47 more cases than yesterday. The daily average is climbing up, up, up.
The daily average is climbing up, up, up, because of more TESTING, TESTING, TESTING.
So does that mean that infections are less infectious?
Testing should’ve been up up up 3 months ago….
Got my hair cut today at Lenny’s, in the Clayton Station. Very happy indeed!
Wouldn’t most important numbers to follow be people in hospitals and deaths?
@Frustrated – I suspect people under 50 almost never end up in the hospital. Only one person under age 50 has died in CC county. That person was in the age 31-40 group and died on 5/20/2020.
There’s a tricky aspect in that when there is a COVID-19 outbreak in a long term care facility (LTCF) that the hospital and death numbers surge. People are in LTCFs because they are medically and/or mentally at risk. They are already at high risk of complications from any disease.
As the county does not report on the ages of people in the hospital the only thing left is to look at deaths in the age 51-60, 61-70, and 71-80 groups. While not everyone in the age 81-90 and over 90 groups is in an LCTF we don’t know if their deaths are via an LTCF outbreak or if they were living independently.
I started paying attention to the by-age data on 5/11/2020. At the time, the totals for the three groups of interest were:
Age 51-60 had 3 total deaths.
Age 61-70 had 6 total deaths.
Age 71-80 had 4 total deaths.
Only one age 51-60 death has happened since 5/11/2020 and it was on 6/10/2020.
Only one age 61-70 death has happened since 5/11/2020 and it was on 6/8/2020.
There have been four age 71-80 deaths since 5/11/2020 and they were on 5/20/2020, 6/2/2020, 6/10/2020, and 6/15/2020.
There’s not enough data there to say if the number of cases is changing though it’s curious that there seems to be a cluster of deaths in June compared to May.
We could look at the older groups but my feeling is that outbreaks in an LTCF are more about bad luck than the prevalence of COVID-19 in the community. As they have high risk residents the staff was already aware of and using practices to minimize the chance of transmission of contagious disease.
Perhaps someone nice here can volunteer to put that chart like the one Claycord was doing! it was just so easy to read and understand all the numbers specially the recovered vs the active!