Coronavirus in DFW - News & Discussion (foods, title)

[As Above So Below...]

Originally Posted by carrcollie

Except only a tiny percentage of people in Texas have been tested.

True, but we dont need a large percentage to learn things from the results.

Texas has given 314,790 tests and of those 27,054 tested positive. That means, of those who have taken the test in Texas, 9% have tested positive.

By contrast New York has tested 872,481 people and 299,691 have come back positive. That means, of those who have taken the test, 34% came back positive. In Michigan, 24% of tests came back positive.

California has done some of the best testing of states not hit that hard. Only 8% of test given came back positive. Utah has the highest per capita testing rate outside NY. Only 4% of people tested positive of tests given there.

Its sort of an excuse when people start talking about Texas not having tested enough to know anything. We can clearly infer from the data we have that people in Texas who test are far less likely to have the virus.

[serger]

Originally Posted by DPatel304

Thank you for sharing that! If we are solely going off of this metric, it seems like Texas is fine to start re-opening?

The flaw here is that this website tracks Texas as a whole. I'm sure most of rural texas is doing great and, if so, I support the decision to re-open, but the major cities could be an entirely different situation.

There was a major change in their estimates several days ago, with values going down across the board, I'm not sure what they did.

There is also this site:

https://epiforecasts.io/covid/posts/...united-states/

[4Movingeast]

Gov Abbott did not approve the guidelines sent to him by the TX State Board of Dental Examiners. They met yesterday, sent him the guidelines, and upon hearing he did not approve them, they scheduled another meeting which was supposed to be today. The meeting has since been canceled, not sure why but I bet we will know more later today. Should be a story on NBC5 DFW at 4 or 5 this evening.

Also, do you feel comfortable knowing that hygiene students that graduated this year will not be required to take a clinical board exam because I'm not. I'm not trying to make things hard on these students but if you value your license you will accept that we have to keep standards high. They should be able to complete all other testing and do their clinical boards later. We can't work right now anyway.

[Capitalprophets]

Originally Posted by tcualum

I have mild claustrophobia and find wearing a mask to be quite uncomfortable. I am also at greater risk because of asthma. My solution is to get curbside pickup and delivery as much as possible (just placed an Instacart grocery order and did curbside at Target today) and wear my mask properly when I have to go out in public such as when I got my allergy shot today. I don't consider skipping the mask to be an option.

That being said, wearing a mask doesn't really help if you don't wear it properly. I've seen way too many people wearing a mask with their nose sticking out and at the shot clinic, one woman's homemade mask was way too loose around the bridge of her nose to the point where she might as well have not been wearing it over her nose.

claustrophobia vs contracting Covid and spreading it to the others. For once, lets put our wants and likes aside for the sake of humanity. I mean do I need to state the obvious?

[SenorChip]

You cannot base your decision to leave or not on the statewide data, it is appropriate to look at the data for each county and see if the curve is indeed going down.

So, can we have this data?

[As Above So Below...]

Originally Posted by SenorChip

You cannot base your decision to leave or not on the statewide data, it is appropriate to look at the data for each county and see if the curve is indeed going down.

So, can we have this data?

Of course:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...rus-cases.html

[SenorChip]

Originally Posted by As Above So Below...

Of course:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...rus-cases.html

Great, it seems Dallas County is doing OK, right?

[As Above So Below...]

Originally Posted by DPatel304

Thank you for sharing that! If we are solely going off of this metric, it seems like Texas is fine to start re-opening?

The flaw here is that this website tracks Texas as a whole. I'm sure most of rural texas is doing great and, if so, I support the decision to re-open, but the major cities could be an entirely different situation.

The last statement isnt really true. Many parts of rural Texas have much higher transmission rates. This is especially true in places where animal processing plants exist.

The top 16 counties in Texas (for transmission rate) all have under 100k residents. In the top 20, only Lubbock, Potter, and Galveston counties are in any way sizable.

The area of Texas with the lowest rate is the Rio Grande Valley and the areas near the border. The areas with the highest are the Texas Panhandle and East Texas. DFW, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio are all in the middle of the pack.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/...rus-cases.html

[DPatel304]

I stand corrected, then.

I wasn't basing my assumption on anything other than my limited time spent and understanding of rural Texas. I haven't been following their numbers at all, so it appears I was definitely way off base there.

[move4ward]

Originally Posted by DPatel304

I stand corrected, then.

I wasn't basing my assumption on anything other than my limited time spent and understanding of rural Texas. I haven't been following their numbers at all, so it appears I was definitely way off base there.

Texas has more cattle than any other state with 12.5 million. Nebraska is a distant 2nd with 6.8 million. Source: https://www.beef2live.com/story-top-...attle-0-110713

Texas is one of the highest risk states for outbreaks in meat processors, due to the highest beef production. Here's a story on our meat processors with the Coronavirus outbreaks: https://www.dallasnews.com./news/pub...essing-plants/

Other states are having issues with migrant workers picking crops. They work closely together and usually carpool. When they are sick, they keep working. For crops that can be harvested by machine, those counties should be fine to reopen. Work life is very socially isolated compared to a manufacturing plant or meat processor(Tyson).

The big cities aren't too bad either. Public transit in the urban centers is nothing like the trains in London, NYC, or Paris. The terminals pack millions of people in them every day. You don't see the same speed of infection in other cities without large subway terminals and rail stations.