Coronavirus in DFW - News & Discussion (Houston, Dallas: suburban, countries)

[Waytoodeep03]

Originally Posted by chipper21

Covid hospitalizations by day for trauma service area in Texas. Dallas and Houston have spiked up the last few days.

https://dshs.texas.gov/coronavirus/T...TimebyTSA.xlsx

exactly yet they are still proceeding with the next phase tomorrow.

There was never any plan to halt a phase. It was all just to save face. At the end of the day their goal was to open up no matter what

[As Above So Below...]

Originally Posted by TurtleCreek80

You have to look at where in Cali though. SF went on the firmest lockdown and is still not very open and their cases are very low.

Inland where they were faster reopening is where the issues seem to be.

I think if Clay Jenkins had been able to call the shots for Dallas County still, we would be in a better position.

Hows that different than Texas though? Northern California is doing better but not Southern California and they locked down far more aggressively than anywhere in Texas.

The counties that have the highest rising number of cases (per capita) are all rural and most are homes to meat packing plants or prisons. The only exception I can find is Jefferson County (Beaumont). The urban county increases in Texas are comparable to Southern California.

Average Daily New Cases by California County:
Los Angeles: 156
Orange: 31
San Diego: 36
Riverside: 87
San Bernadino: 2

Average Daily New Cases by Texas County:
Harris: 114
Dallas: 94
Tarrant: 49
Denton: 5
Collin: 19
Fort Bend: 30
Montgomery: 10
Travis: 28
Bexar: 58

[move4ward]

I took the COVID19 test this morning in Carrollton drive-through site. They went deep up BOTH nostrils. It felt like getting salt water up your nose, while in Galveston.

If meat processors ask for weekly testing, workers might ask for fewer safety regulations.

[Waytoodeep03]

I heard on the news Houston is getting ready to go back under lockdown


yet


Abbott err I mean Dan Patrick isnt saying a word on halting the phases.

[serger]

Originally Posted by Waytoodeep03

I heard on the news Houston is getting ready to go back under lockdown


yet


Abbott err I mean Dan Patrick isnt saying a word on halting the phases.

Yeah, apparently all is good we have plenty of hospital beds available.

Oh, and they also use as a metric the number of hospitalizations / the number of active cases. Claiming since it's not changing all is good. I mean you can't make this stuff up.

[Ralph_Kirk]

Originally Posted by serger

Yeah, apparently all is good we have plenty of hospital beds available.

Oh, and they also use as a metric the number of hospitalizations / the number of active cases. Claiming since it's not changing all is good. I mean you can't make this stuff up.

But wait...dang, the medical community created that metric themselves.



Remember their graph with the curve representing cases and the flat line representing their capability? They did claim, over and over again, that as long as the curve of cases stayed below the line of their capability, all was well.

[As Above So Below...]

Originally Posted by Waytoodeep03

I heard on the news Houston is getting ready to go back under lockdown


yet


Abbott err I mean Dan Patrick isnt saying a word on halting the phases.

The odds of getting people here to comply with a new lockdown here are the same as flapping my ears and flying to Mars.

The same people who were telling us to stay at home lest we kill grandma were just telling us to go out and protest. I agree with the protesters cause but it is ridiculously hypocritical to do a 180 like that. Lina Hidalgo our county judge (whom I do like) did just that so now when she says we need to stay at home, it’s hollow and won’t be adhered to.

Besides the states orders override the county’s.

Originally Posted by Ralph_Kirk

But wait...dang, the medical community created that metric themselves.



Remember their graph with the curve representing cases and the flat line representing their capability? They did claim, over and over again, that as long as the curve of cases stayed below the line of their capability, all was well.

This. The whole flatten the curve thing was solely based on keeping hospital resources from being overwhelmed. It was NEVER about reducing the number of total cases, but rather spreading those cases out over time.

[move4ward]

Originally Posted by Ralph_Kirk

But wait...dang, the medical community created that metric themselves.



Remember their graph with the curve representing cases and the flat line representing their capability? They did claim, over and over again, that as long as the curve of cases stayed below the line of their capability, all was well.

Texas is doing great on flattening the curve. Estimated hospital beds available are 28k with an estimated 714 used. October projections predict a peak of less than 10% of capacity.

The University of Washington (IHME) chart for Texas hospital resources - https://covid19.healthdata.org/unite...-america/texas

[serger]

Originally Posted by move4ward

Texas is doing great on flattening the curve. Estimated hospital beds available are 28k with an estimated 714 used. October projections predict a peak of less than 10% of capacity.

The University of Washington (IHME) chart for Texas hospital resources - https://covid19.healthdata.org/unite...-america/texas

Currently about 2166 (as of June 12th) people are hospitalized for COVID 19 in TX.

https://apps.texastribune.org/featur...rus-cases-map/


P.S. I'm sure in AZ they also thought at some point that they have plenty of capacity..

[serger]

Originally Posted by As Above So Below...

The odds of getting people here to comply with a new lockdown here are the same as flapping my ears and flying to Mars.

The same people who were telling us to stay at home lest we kill grandma were just telling us to go out and protest. I agree with the protesters cause but it is ridiculously hypocritical to do a 180 like that. Lina Hidalgo our county judge (whom I do like) did just that so now when she says we need to stay at home, it’s hollow and won’t be adhered to.

Besides the states orders override the county’s.



This. The whole flatten the curve thing was solely based on keeping hospital resources from being overwhelmed. It was NEVER about reducing the number of total cases, but rather spreading those cases out over time.

reducing the effective reproduction number, reduces the total size of the epidemic. reducing it below 1.0 leads to a decrease in the number of active cases.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/usa/texas/

https://www.worldometers.info/corona...untry/germany/