Are you not familiar with the Texas (A&M) Veterinary Medical Diagnostic Lab? They do all kinds of tests there. I would not be surprised if they are helping with this.

The vet school has been instrumental locally in ramping in testing. It is not contempt it is fact that the hospitals were using the vet school testing. I do not know who is doing A&M's testing now as I am not in charge of that program.

Today's numbers: 39 new confirmed cases, 22 probable cases, 1,246 tests, 2 deaths, 22 Brazos County patients hospitalized.

Reported deaths were a female in her 70's and a male in his 80's. Both were hospitalized.

I promised myself I wouldn't post here because I generally disagree with y'all. You want stats I can't give covid is a ***** and it's taking out many nurses locally. Remember. Beds don't equal staffed beds.

new straw said:

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I promised myself I wouldn't post here because I generally disagree with y'all. You want stats I can't give covid is a ***** and it's taking out many nurses locally. Remember. Beds don't equal staffed beds.

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please wear your mask. Stay safe, lovelies. I think most hospital nurses world LOVE it if non hospital docs would support us in this. Thanks.

That's quite a jump in hospitalizations. Not good.

Our local numbers have been fairly stable overall without any kind of major spike. The number of cases doesn't match up to the number of hospitalizations, especially given that a huge number, often the majority of daily cases, are from young people. You could infect 100,000 people under 25 and very few would end up in the hospital, much less the ICU, unless they had a preexisting condition(s) which amplified the virus.

I still stand by what I said a while back, there is at least one nursing home with an outbreak; or it is the oddest happenstance that a lot of people getting it just happen to be the most vulnerable.

Okay, back to lurk mode because there are some things I'd love to say in reply to other comments, but I know exactly where that would lead.

scd88 said:

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What's going on with the ICU all of a sudden?

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Likely the increase in older positives we have seen over the last week or so.

Seems like a little spike is in play. This week has been trending up.

We should be used to these ebbs and flows. No need to panic.

Rapier108 said:

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I still stand by what I said a while back, there is at least one nursing home with an outbreak; or it is the oddest happenstance that a lot of people getting it just happen to be the most vulnerable.

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Still, no random acts of journalism by the media. No questions about the spike in the older population and the possibility of a retirement home being hit again.

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Rapier108 said:

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I still stand by what I said a while back, there is at least one nursing home with an outbreak; or it is the oddest happenstance that a lot of people getting it just happen to be the most vulnerable.

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Still, no random acts of journalism by the media. No questions about the spike in the older population and the possibility of a retirement home being hit again.

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I don't do Facebook and deleted my Twitter account, but everyone who has one or both, needs to be hammering every local news outlet and reporter. Probably won't do any good, but its all we have.

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I'm sorry. Why are we assuming there's a coverup of an outbreak at a care facility? Earlier similar outbreaks were reported on by local media. BCS does have a lot of elderly residents that don't reside at care facilities.

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Well from what I understand, we only found out about the first one after family members of residents came forward and basically handed the story to the media out of frustration. All of this after numerous health district pressers where officials played dumbfounded that a disproportionate number of elderly were dying in the early days of covid-19.

You could kind of infer the severity of the hospitalizations earlier this fall when BCHD reported discharges, as you can see the turnover rate. Sadly, no more because we aren't entitled to know this.

jeffk said:

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I'm sorry. Why are we assuming there's a coverup of an outbreak at a care facility? Earlier similar outbreaks were reported on by local media. BCS does have a lot of elderly residents that don't reside at care facilities.

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As nthomas99, it is pretty easy to infer based on the available information. The BCHD is completely useless in providing information and wouldn't have admitted what was going on at The Waterford until family members went to KBTX and it was finally reported on. Parc at Traditions at least went public on their own.

On that note, just now there was a Broadcastify call to a nursing home (same one I mentioned a while back as having confirmed cases based on previous calls) and the patient is a positive CV case.