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(8,445 posts)Hassin Bin Sober
(26,326 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,784 posts)n/t
ooky
(8,922 posts)yardwork
(61,599 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,648 posts)jimfields33
(15,787 posts)Gotta love Leesburg Florida. Were doing it right. My sister in Indiana has 94 percent and my brother in Pennsylvania has 74 percent. Glad mine is minimal.
Dem2
(8,168 posts)Bad since my state is near the bottom in case rate. This latest spike isn't surprising observing the behavior of people here, however.
tnlurker
(1,020 posts)63 percent
Cousin Dupree
(1,866 posts)tblue37
(65,340 posts)JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,339 posts)xmas74
(29,674 posts)I'm in Missouri
mnhtnbb
(31,384 posts)Mike 03
(16,616 posts)Ms. Toad
(34,069 posts)NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)catbyte
(34,376 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,628 posts)Considering I'd have a better chance of surviving stepping on a land mine, I quit taking risks here. I don't let shoppers get away with wearing a chin strap anymore. The Amish just laugh at me because only God decides if they get sick and die. That's no more idiotic than the GOP calling it an overblown hoax.
ornotna
(10,800 posts)Thanks for the link.
alittlelark
(18,890 posts)I had no idea it was that bad here.
Tech
(1,771 posts)ananda
(28,858 posts)Harris Co, TX, comes out at 47.
dalton99a
(81,472 posts)Cirque du So-What
(25,932 posts)StarryNite
(9,444 posts)Moderate risk for flu.
bullimiami
(13,086 posts)davsand
(13,421 posts)Frankly, I want to barricade the doors and dig a hole in my family room floor. My daughter just called me this morning to tell me she and her room mate are on lockdown AGAIN due to another workplace exposure. I think this is maybe the fifth time now that one or both of them has been exposed between their two workplaces. Sadly, this is most likely going to become even more frequent as the viral spread continues.
I am grateful to be working from home but I am terrified for my husband. He's still doing about half time in his office and I hope to hell he stops before it's too late.
Laura
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)I guess they assume that most fevers are COVID-related these days.
Hekate
(90,673 posts)The CDC should really be using their methods to supplement what they do the way things are now depends on people going to the doctor, and the doctor taking the time to fill out paperwork and send it to the CDC, then CDC people inputting the data. It takes a lot of time to put together and you as an ordinary person only find out when you read the newspaper.
The Kinsa concept is to identify patterns and then changes in those patterns. It started with the flu, in other words before the pandemic was even thought of. People take their own temperature at home routinely kid or spouse complains of aches and has a cough and Mom shoves a thermometer into their mouth. They may or may not go to the doc at all, depending on the results over the next few days. However, the Kinsa computers aggregate all this information immediately. If enough people in your community are running a fever, it shows up as a spike on the charts.
The Kinsa scientists discovered they could predict the onset of flu in a region two weeks ahead of the CDCs ability to do so.
I think its fascinating.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)hedda_foil
(16,373 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(24,467 posts)Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)We have some of the the lowest risk of anyone posting. Maine has been trending poorly in recent weeks. It is important that Mainers take all the recommended precautions so we don't end up with this getting out hand like it is in other parts of the country.
Alacritous Crier
(3,816 posts)Hekate
(90,673 posts)Last edited Thu Nov 19, 2020, 01:10 PM - Edit history (1)
People in risk groups (me) take precautions; minimize social contact
My sisters county in New York is at 54 high risk. Avoid all social contact if in a higher- risk group (she is; she had COVID in January)
I love the whole concept of Kinsa. What an intelligent group.
Akacia
(583 posts)And lots of covidiots here including some family members.
Demsrule86
(68,556 posts)OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)I live in a moderate county but work in a high county. I reckon it's masks and handwashing for a long while more.
obamanut2012
(26,068 posts)Bettie
(16,095 posts)99 Critical Risk
Cases are Very High and Spreading Rapidly
Liberal In Texas
(13,548 posts)we'd might get some realistic containment orders
mvd
(65,173 posts)No surprise. Montgomery County, PA used to be 40-50 cases per day, and now they are over 200 per day.
Midnight Writer
(21,753 posts)He's done with it.
He asked me if I personally knew anyone who has died from it.
I told him yes, I went to a funeral yesterday for a wonderful lady who died of Covid, a dear friend.
He asked me how old she was.
I answered 85.
He said "Well, there you go" and walked away like he'd just made some kind of point.
KewlKat
(5,624 posts)High risk. Very elderly relatives area shows as 99 in OL.
Talitha
(6,584 posts)The Flu is "very low and falling" though, so that's comforting.
2naSalit
(86,579 posts)I have been isolating since Mid March, guess I'll still be here next March.
Poiuyt
(18,123 posts)Fox Valley region of Wisconsin
Silent3
(15,210 posts)...and sparsely populated places in northern NH, where maps of my state show much lower rates of infection (I think, but I'm not sure, lower per-capita, not just in absolute numbers). A range from 62 down to 55, both in the "high risk" range.
33 (moderate risk) is the lowest I could find, just trying this place and that, in Vermont. I'm guessing this means "moderate risk" is the best it gets nearly anywhere in the US, and that most places are "high risk" or worse category.
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)Covid cases / 1000 population vary by up to a factor of 2 or 3 for different local governments within the county.
LizBeth
(9,952 posts)Klaralven
(7,510 posts)LizBeth
(9,952 posts)LizBeth
(9,952 posts)AwakeAtLast
(14,124 posts)I see 600 K-8 a week!
I need a hug. And a drink.
Zing Zing Zingbah
(6,496 posts)or a hybrid of half time remote and half time in person? 600 is an awful lot of kids to be exposed to, so it sounds like your school probably isn't doing hybrid model. Maine schools are doing hybrid model. There's about 10 kids or less per class that way and they do not interact the other classes. According to this website, we are 36%, moderate risk in Maine right now. It's insane that other places aren't doing the same things. I'm glad we have Gov. Mills right now. I read that she is hesitating on doing any new lock down measure, like business closures, at the moment because federal relief funds have dried up. Gee, thanks Republican controlled senate. I think she will take action again and probably soon. She is trying to be smart about it.
birdographer
(1,325 posts)More cases than all surrounding counties for quite some distance. Not surprising. Trump got 14k votes here, Biden 6k. Nobody wears masks (except, strangely, at Lowe's). Lots of idiots here who think it's a hoax. Eight deaths out of 800+ cases.
Pathwalker
(6,598 posts)Yeah, I knew that.
ChazII
(6,204 posts)Maricopa County, AZ
Last Updated: Nov 19, 2020
Low
High Risk
65
High Risk
Critical
Take precautions now
50-74 Area Risk: Higher-risk groups should protect themselves by avoiding all social contact. All groups should limit social contact and practice everyday preventive actions.
intheflow
(28,463 posts)Hellova thing to read as I await my Covid test results.
Edited to add: Western MA