Coronavirus positives in Bradenton and Hillsborough Counties (Miami, Tampa: appointed, real estate)

[beach43ofus]

Young people are able to return to work, and many employers are requiring tests to do so. Many of these younger people are asymptomatic carriers that test positive. That is why the % of positive tests are increasing...more testing of asymptomatic young people. My Son lives in a college town, and he told me all of his friends are going though this as they try to return to work, or attain Summer jobs.

I've read asymptomatic carriers are less likely to infect others than originally thought, and if this is so, the spread will not be as bad, nor will the deaths per capita.

Yes, some hospitals are seeing upticks, but that is because of carelessness when the sanctions started being lifted.

If we follow the safety protocols, and don't become complacent, this 2nd wave will diminish, and I do not think we'll see the death rate per million residents spike....time will tell.

Originally Posted by grad_student200

That GIS program at FSU is very rigorous with a lot of scrutiny on peer reviews (both within and outside the university in the general GIS community of researchers). I know that department. Since her story broke out, I am sure her data has been scrutinized to a worldwide level. The dispute over data can only go so far. The cases are spiking beyond control, and the "more tests lead to more positive counts" argument is no longer valid. The percentage of positive tests is going up - plain and simple. It's not a conspiracy - just raw objective data.

I don't know why she had to be castigated so badly when she was simply doing GIS research objectively as she had been trained. By contrast, here in AZ, a woman attacked a display of face masks at a Target and was confronted by cops at her home. She is from "affluent" Scottsdale or the northeast suburb of Phoenix. The woman apparently thinks face masks are unnecessary and part of some conspiracy. She had said she would get millions of views and was right - lol. But it was for her deranged behavior.
https://nypost.com/2020/07/06/arizon...lay-in-target/

[Variable]

Originally Posted by beach43ofus

Young people are able to return to work...

That doesn't make any sense. People of all ages are able to return to work, not just young people. In the Sarasota/Bradenton area, a lot of the people working in stores and shops and salons and restaurants are middle aged and older, because the area tends to have an older population in general.

[Sunshine Rules]

Current data shows Florida in far better shape in terms of the case fatality rate, which on Monday sat at 1.9 percent. DeSantis compared the numbers to Connecticut (9.3 percent), New Jersey (8.6 percent), Michigan (8.5 percent), New York (7.6 percent), Massachusetts (7.4 percent), Pennsylvania (7.2 percent), and Illinois (4.9 percent).

DeSantis: Florida has tested over 2.2 million people since the beginning of #COVID19, which is 10% of our state’s population. The week of 6/29 alone, Florida tested nearly 400,000 people.

[wondermint2]

Florida still not reporting how many hospitalized with COVID. DeSantis won’t say why.
https://www.bradenton.com/news/coron...244048107.html

Under pressure last week as COVID-19 hospitalizations soared in Florida, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office said the state would start reporting daily hospitalization data for all 67 counties.

DeSantis on Tuesday, however, refused to address the fact that the state has yet to make good on its promise when asked by a Miami Herald reporter.

[wondermint2]

COVID-19 patient count and ICU admissions hit new highs at Sarasota Memorial Hospital Tuesday
https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/2...spital-tuesday

Sarasota Memorial Hospital had 82 COVID-19 patients on Tuesday, including 17 in the intensive care unit, both of which are record highs.

After a lull in admissions through late May and early June, Sarasota Memorial has seen a steady rise in COVID-19 cases over the last month.

The hospital had 43 COVID-19 patients on May 11 but dropped down to just 10 on June 1, with none in the ICU.

But since then Florida’s coronavirus outbreak has exploded and both Sarasota and Manatee counties are seeing a big wave of new cases.

There were 110 new coronavirus infections confirmed in Manatee County and 58 confirmed in Sarasota County on Monday, according to data released Tuesday by the Florida Department of Health.

Manatee had a record 287 new cases and Sarasota had a record 246 new cases on Friday.

Sarasota Memorial had 17 ICU beds available Tuesday out of 72. The hospital can expand ICU capacity to more than 100 beds if necessary.


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On Tuesday Florida hit a new high for the rate of positive coronavirus test results: 20.8%
https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/2...ida-on-tuesday

The Florida Department of Health announced 7,347 new cases of COVID-19 in the state on Tuesday, July 7. Florida now has 213,794 coronavirus cases across the state. The number of reported deaths of Florida residents increased by 63 to 3,841.

Sarasota County’s numbers rose by 58 cases since Monday, for a total of 2,249 cases. Manatee County had 105 new cases, for a total of 3,890. There were three new deaths reported in Manatee County.

The rate of positive tests across the state has reached a new milestone: 20.8% for all new tests reported today. In Manatee County the positive test rate was 18%, 17% in Sarasota County.

[wondermint2]

Just 4 states meet these basic criteria to reopen and stay safe
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/ju...fe/ar-BB14HXuy

All 50 states have moved to reopen their economies, at least partially, after shutting down businesses and gatherings in response to the coronavirus pandemic.

But a Vox analysis suggests that most states haven’t made the preparations needed to contain future waves of the pandemic — putting themselves at risk for a rise in Covid-19 cases and deaths should they continue to reopen, which some states have already seen.

States should meet at least five basic criteria. They should see a two-week drop in coronavirus cases, indicating that the virus is actually abating. They should have fewer than four daily new cases per 100,000 people per day — to show that cases aren’t just dropping, but also below dangerous levels. They need at least 150 new tests per 100,000 people per day, letting them quickly track and contain outbreaks. They need an overall positive rate for tests below 5 percent — another critical indicator for testing capacity. And states should have at least 40 percent of their ICU beds free to actually treat an influx of people stricken with Covid-19 should it be necessary.

With these metrics, states can gauge if they have repressed the coronavirus while building the capacity to contain future outbreaks should they come. In other words, the benchmarks show how ready states are for the next phase of the fight.

So far, most states are not there. As of July 8, just four states — Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Jersey, and New York — met four or five of the goals, which demonstrates strong progress. Fifteen states and Washington, DC, hit two or three of the benchmarks. The other 31 achieved zero or one.

[wondermint2]

Manatee County hospitals running out of ICU beds as COVID-19 cases surge
https://www.bradenton.com/news/coron...244086542.html

As cases of coronavirus continue to surge at record levels in Florida, hospitals in Manatee County are nearly out of ICU beds. Overall bed availability is also dwindling.

As of 1 p.m. Wednesday, there were four available ICU beds between Manatee Memorial Hospital, Blake Medical Center and Lakewood Ranch Medical Center, according to the state’s Agency for Health Care Administration. The three hospitals combined have 108 beds total available.

Those available ICU beds are at Manatee Memorial and Blake, each with two.

Nine days ago, the same three hospitals had 32 available ICU beds and 336 available beds overall. At the time, Manatee County had 2,810 cases of people testing positive for the coronavirus.

As of Wednesday, local cases have increased by almost 70 percent, with 4,080 positive cases of coronavirus now reported since the onset of the pandemic.

The state has refused to release current hospitalization data for COVID-19 cases, even as new cases are surging. In Manatee County, local health department and county officials don’t have this data either.

[wondermint2]

Florida reports record high coronavirus deaths in 1 day
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/fl...3q6?li=BBnbcA1

Florida reported 120 coronavirus-related deaths Thursday, a record daily high for the Sunshine State since the pandemic began.

“In April and May, we were dealing with 100,000 cases a day,” World Health Organization (WHO) official Dr. Michael Ryan said during a Tuesday press briefing. “Today, we’re dealing with 200,000 a day.”

“This epidemic is accelerating,” Ryan added.

Ryan also said that the global community should not be surprised if death rates start to rapidly increase, noting the “lag time” it takes for the coronavirus to run its course after cases spiked in June and early July.

“We’ve only really experienced this rapid increase in cases over the last five to six weeks,” Ryan said. “So I don’t think it should be a surprise if the deaths start to rise again.”

[wondermint2]

Florida’s coronavirus death rate is trending up again after rising hospitalizations
https://www.bradenton.com/news/coron...244108172.html

The rate of daily coronavirus deaths reported by the state of Florida has begun to tick up again for the first time since May, a trend that was apparent even before Thursday’s announcement of a record 120 COVID deaths, following weeks of rising hospitalizations.

Volunteer data researchers at The COVID Tracking Project, which is analyzing national coronavirus data during the pandemic, have tracked Florida’s rise in coronavirus deaths using rolling averages to smooth out the spikes and valleys that come with the inconsistent reporting of deaths by the state health department. They said the upswing became apparent this week.

“It’s definitely trending up,” said Olivier Lacan, an Orlando-based volunteer researcher for the tracking project. Each day, Lacan calculates the daily average of newly reported deaths for the previous seven days to analyze the trend line.

This week, the rise in deaths has started to match the death rate of early May, when lockdown orders were still in place.

Florida’s official statistics also only include deaths that are confirmed to be attributed to COVID-19, not cases that were probably caused by the virus — a statistic that some other states report — according to the COVID Tracking Project, which criticized that policy, along with other data quirks, in a blog post on Wednesday.

[wondermint2]

Sarasota Memorial Hospital up to 93 COVID-19 patients Thursday, a new high
https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/2...rsday-new-high

Sarasota Memorial Hospital hit a new high for COVID-19 patients Thursday.

The 93 Sarasota Memorial patients infected with the coronavirus and 17 in the intensive care unit Thursday are both record highs.

Sarasota Memorial had 17 ICU beds available Thursday out of 72. The hospital can expand the ICU to more than 100 beds if necessary.

Sarasota Memorial had 676 beds occupied Thursday. The hospital is approved for 839 staffed beds, but spokeswoman Kim Savage said recently that “right now we have enough staff to easily surge up to 750″ occupied beds.”