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ohhbother said:
The health system where I work in SC is at capacity. Our ICUs are at 115% capacity. All hospitals in the region are full. This week, the National Guard sent clinical staff to five area hospitals to try and help.

We've had more 50 of our team members test positive for the virus to date. One of our physicians who treats COVID patients was just hospitalized himself. He received remdesivir and convalescent plasma and thankfully is recovering.

We're averaging a daily COVID-19 inpatient census of 45-55. We stopped inpatient surgeries again trying to free up space. The percent positive in SC continues to hover around 19-20%.

At this point, we're basically begging people to wear a mask and social distance. And we're praying hurricane season spares us.
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Hang in there. Hopefully more people will make the changes necessary to make a difference, sooner rather than later.
 
#68,003
#68,003
ohhbother said:
The health system where I work in SC is at capacity. Our ICUs are at 115% capacity. All hospitals in the region are full. This week, the National Guard sent clinical staff to five area hospitals to try and help.

We've had more 50 of our team members test positive for the virus to date. One of our physicians who treats COVID patients was just hospitalized himself. He received remdesivir and convalescent plasma and thankfully is recovering.

We're averaging a daily COVID-19 inpatient census of 45-55. We stopped inpatient surgeries again trying to free up space. The percent positive in SC continues to hover around 19-20%.

At this point, we're basically begging people to wear a mask and social distance. And we're praying hurricane season spares us.
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Rough. Hope it turns around soon for you and the systems you work in.
 
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#68,004
ohhbother said:
The health system where I work in SC is at capacity. Our ICUs are at 115% capacity. All hospitals in the region are full. This week, the National Guard sent clinical staff to five area hospitals to try and help.

We've had more 50 of our team members test positive for the virus to date. One of our physicians who treats COVID patients was just hospitalized himself. He received remdesivir and convalescent plasma and thankfully is recovering.

We're averaging a daily COVID-19 inpatient census of 45-55. We stopped inpatient surgeries again trying to free up space. The percent positive in SC continues to hover around 19-20%.

At this point, we're basically begging people to wear a mask and social distance. And we're praying hurricane season spares us.
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When did you stop the electives? Good luck and stay safe.
 
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volbeast33 said:
Tennessee has 800,000 more residents than Maryland...... has administered 300,000 more tests...... 8,000 more positive cases but 2,400 less deaths.... yesterday Tennessee had more positive cases but the same amount of deaths..... I would argue that Tennessee has been much more open but doing a much better job than Maryland.
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Disagree. Aside from being partially based on one day of statistics from one stage, this analysis ignores geographical differences between these two states and how those differences affected the spread of Trump Virus.



You may recall that there was widespread groaning from folks here, you may have been one, when Lee issued stay-at-home orders because “the virus was only affecting blue states and cities.” Trump Virus affected areas with high population density, heavy international shipping, and international travel sooner. If you plot the distribution of new cases over time, it is obvious that Trump Virus arrived earlier in Maryland: While TN had a long low curve, Maryland had a fast early spike that then came largely under control before trending up again recently.



We all understood this at the time, now you ignore it to attempt this argument and it hurts the argument.



The early arrival of Trump Virus in Maryland is noteworthy for a number of reasons:



First, medical knowledge (both testing and treatment) and public awareness of the virus have increased over time (as evidenced by the downward trends in reproduction value and death rates over time) and this has informed the response of states. TN has had the benefit of these advancements.



Second, TN’s stay-at-home orders probably inhibited spread so and occurred before the State’s viral load got out of hand. This bought more time. As we know, deaths are a lagging indicator, so basically Tennessee having fewer deaths is likely a result of the progression of the virus being behind Maryland’s in addition to the geographic advantages Tennessee has.



Maryland also had geographic disadvantages such as a busy international shipping port, international airport with one of the busiest passenger and cargo hubs in the country. It’s also very densely populated, I’d guess it’s top 5, nationally in population density. These features contribute to arrival of new cases and spread of the virus.



The fact that Maryland’s numbers are so similar to TN, given all of that, is miraculous and would speak to either Maryland doing a good job or TN doing a bad job. But I know TN has not done a bad job at all. Lee has done pretty well particularly at keeping his head down and not making a big show of parting ways with Trump when he has had to do so.
 
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volbeast33 said:
Some more anecdotal evidence: a younger teenager I know has tested positive 4 times in four months with no symptoms at all.... also someone that I work with but travels to multiple buildings had been exposed.... developed mild symptoms( sore throat mainly).... tested negative but was still quarantined... felt he had it and was able to get another test and tested positive this time

The CDC sent out new guidelines also that now when you test positive that they want you to quarantine for 10 days and go back to work/public without a retest bc people have been testing positive multiple times but not contagious. I wonder how many multiple cases are included in the case count and I also wonder how many are considered covid deaths that test positive due to the same reason.
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I'm almost sure they are adding every test seperately.
 
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ohhbother said:
The health system where I work in SC is at capacity. Our ICUs are at 115% capacity. All hospitals in the region are full. This week, the National Guard sent clinical staff to five area hospitals to try and help.

We've had more 50 of our team members test positive for the virus to date. One of our physicians who treats COVID patients was just hospitalized himself. He received remdesivir and convalescent plasma and thankfully is recovering.

We're averaging a daily COVID-19 inpatient census of 45-55. We stopped inpatient surgeries again trying to free up space. The percent positive in SC continues to hover around 19-20%.

At this point, we're basically begging people to wear a mask and social distance. And we're praying hurricane season spares us.
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What's the age grouping if you have a sense of it?
 
#68,017
#68,017
ohhbother said:
The health system where I work in SC is at capacity. Our ICUs are at 115% capacity. All hospitals in the region are full. This week, the National Guard sent clinical staff to five area hospitals to try and help.

We've had more 50 of our team members test positive for the virus to date. One of our physicians who treats COVID patients was just hospitalized himself. He received remdesivir and convalescent plasma and thankfully is recovering.

We're averaging a daily COVID-19 inpatient census of 45-55. We stopped inpatient surgeries again trying to free up space. The percent positive in SC continues to hover around 19-20%.

At this point, we're basically begging people to wear a mask and social distance. And we're praying hurricane season spares us.
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What area of South Carolina are you located in?
 
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RockyTop85 said:
Disagree. Aside from being partially based on one day of statistics from one stage, this analysis ignores geographical differences between these two states and how those differences affected the spread of Trump Virus.



You may recall that there was widespread groaning from folks here, you may have been one, when Lee issued stay-at-home orders because “the virus was only affecting blue states and cities.” Trump Virus affected areas with high population density, heavy international shipping, and international travel sooner. If you plot the distribution of new cases over time, it is obvious that Trump Virus arrived earlier in Maryland: While TN had a long low curve, Maryland had a fast early spike that then came largely under control before trending up again recently.



We all understood this at the time, now you ignore it to attempt this argument and it hurts the argument.



The early arrival of Trump Virus in Maryland is noteworthy for a number of reasons:



First, medical knowledge (both testing and treatment) and public awareness of the virus have increased over time (as evidenced by the downward trends in reproduction value and death rates over time) and this has informed the response of states. TN has had the benefit of these advancements.



Second, TN’s stay-at-home orders probably inhibited spread so and occurred before the State’s viral load got out of hand. This bought more time. As we know, deaths are a lagging indicator, so basically Tennessee having fewer deaths is likely a result of the progression of the virus being behind Maryland’s in addition to the geographic advantages Tennessee has.



Maryland also had geographic disadvantages such as a busy international shipping port, international airport with one of the busiest passenger and cargo hubs in the country. It’s also very densely populated, I’d guess it’s top 5, nationally in population density. These features contribute to arrival of new cases and spread of the virus.



The fact that Maryland’s numbers are so similar to TN, given all of that, is miraculous and would speak to either Maryland doing a good job or TN doing a bad job. But I know TN has not done a bad job at all. Lee has done pretty well particularly at keeping his head down and not making a big show of parting ways with Trump when he has had to do so.
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I feel like you sound very biased and like most studies that are done.... you hand pick stats and figures to try and prove your point. I think they have both done a bad job.....I feel like if we had done a mixture of Sweden/Germany this illness would have already ran its course and be about done with us.
 
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MurphyVol said:
And it's Patriotic to wear a mask and the virus will get worse before it gets better per Trump
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A lot of those who declare masks useless spend their time finding pictures of protesters and minorities not wearing them, as if being the Karen mask police is making their case. That equates to, "if I see someone not doing it, then I'm not going to, either".
 
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ohhbother said:
The health system where I work in SC is at capacity. Our ICUs are at 115% capacity. All hospitals in the region are full. This week, the National Guard sent clinical staff to five area hospitals to try and help.

We've had more 50 of our team members test positive for the virus to date. One of our physicians who treats COVID patients was just hospitalized himself. He received remdesivir and convalescent plasma and thankfully is recovering.

We're averaging a daily COVID-19 inpatient census of 45-55. We stopped inpatient surgeries again trying to free up space. The percent positive in SC continues to hover around 19-20%.

At this point, we're basically begging people to wear a mask and social distance. And we're praying hurricane season spares us.
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Per capita numbers in SC are worse in SC than anywhere, I believe. For deaths I think that’s the case. Maybe not normal hospitalization.

Are you in what you would call a hot spot.
 
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