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More likely every day there won't be a session this year yall. Now comes the part where we decide what happens to the seniors. Do they get another year of eligibility?
 
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Well, it’s possible I misunderstood Butchna’s post. But I thought he was saying that ESD would be more likely now.
You didn’t misunderstand. With the cut in visits and expanded dead periods, it’s more advantageous to allow programs to get their rosters set sooner rather than later...no benefit for the opposite.
 
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) - Tennessee on Friday reported its biggest single-day increase in positive COVID-19 cases since the new coronavirus pandemic began in March.
The one-day total of nearly 1,200 people testing positive narrowly tops the day in May that a slew of results came in from prisoners at Trousdale Turner Correctional Center, where nearly 1,300 inmates and 50 workers ultimately tested positive.

In all, Tennessee’s health department has reported more than 34,000 cases and 515 deaths. The state noted that it added more than 15,000 tests conducted since Thursday.
In Shelby County, the sheriff’s office reported 162 jail detainees and 75 employees have tested positive for COVID-19.

To some that may sound a bit alarming but there’s a back story.

All the way back in April both the Harvard Global Health Institute and the Kaiser Foundation were touting Tennessee’s best in the nation testing for the coronavirus. Damn, we’re good. It turns out we had a simple plan. We told commercial labs we’ll pay up front. No paperwork, no insurance companies, no red tape, just keep ramping your testing as much as you can and keep ramping. Of course state officials are expecting the tab to eventually be picked up by the Federal Government. The Feds have set the cost of the test at $100. As of today’s report we’ve had 727,268 tests in the state so that would be $72,726,800 we’ve spent so far.

The tax dollars are well spent, said Dr. Ashish Jha, faculty director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, which has been tracking testing capacity by state. He said Tennessee’s investment could more than pay for itself since ample capacity is seen as a necessity to reopen businesses. Jha said he’s been recommending this approach to government officials across the country.

“If the state says they’ll just pay everybody 100 bucks every time you do a test, that strikes me as very smart policy,” he said.

Here are a few things we’ve done in addition to free drive-thrus. We’ve tested and continue to monitor and test everyone who lives and/or works in a nursing home. We’ve tested everyone in our prisons and continue to monitor and test the people who work there. The national guard went into public housing communities and tested or are testing everyone there.

The basic metric being used everywhere is your testing as a minimum should be high enough that the rate of positives should be under 10% if you were serious about trying to manage the outbreak. We’re at 5.2%. We’ve now essentially tested over 10.5% of the state population and increasing. As of a couple weeks ago, the last time I saw data on it, our R-naught was 1.1 which is still spreading but pretty slow.

Anyway, Kudos to our guys for now. jmo.
 
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To some that may sound a bit alarming but there’s a back story.

All the way back in April both the Harvard Global Health Institute and the Kaiser Foundation were touting Tennessee’s best in the nation testing for the coronavirus. Damn, we’re good. It turns out we had a simple plan. We told commercial labs we’ll pay up front. No paperwork, no insurance companies, no red tape, just keep ramping your testing as much as you can and keep ramping. Of course state officials are expecting the tab to eventually be picked up by the Federal Government. The Feds have set the cost of the test at $100. As of today’s report we’ve had 727,268 tests in the state so that would be $72,726,800 we’ve spent so far.



Here are a few things we’ve done in addition to free drive-thrus. We’ve tested and continue to monitor and test everyone who lives and/or works in a nursing home. We’ve tested everyone in our prisons and continue to monitor and test the people who work there. The national guard went into public housing communities and tested or are testing everyone there.

The basic metric being used everywhere is your testing as a minimum should be high enough that the rate of positives should be under 10% if you were serious about trying to manage the outbreak. We’re at 5.2%. We’ve now essentially tested over 10.5% of the state population and increasing. As of a couple weeks ago, the last time I saw data on it, our R-naught was 1.1 which is still spreading but pretty slow.

Anyway, Kudos to our guys for now. jmo.
Another excellent post.
 
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