Lester Freamon said:
Is there any info on % positive cases for Texas? I know case counts are increasing but interested to see what effect testing capacity has on it
I've seen results of CAlifornia, NY, and FLorida antibody test studies. Let's get one done in Texas.dragmagpuff said:Abbott said in his presser that we are sub-10%. I don't know over what time frame that is, though.Lester Freamon said:
Is there any info on % positive cases for Texas? I know case counts are increasing but interested to see what effect testing capacity has on it
https://covidtracking.com/data/state/texasLester Freamon said:
Is there any info on % positive cases for Texas? I know case counts are increasing but interested to see what effect testing capacity has on it
Mainly, they shut the drive thru testing in favor of just testing as patients showed up at the hospitals. The only thing the US was tracking for a while were severe cases or hospitalizations. Now we are ramping testing again and the numbers are continuing to go up, but we are catching a lot more of the mild cases.ETFan said:
What caused the sharp drop in Houston? Effects of SD/shutdown finally kicking in or reporting?
It's hard for me to believe that's true given Texas has conducted 315,000 total tests and only 27,000 thousand were positive. The US has tested 6,000,000 with only 1,000,000 positive.Rock1983 said:Mainly, they shut the drive thru testing in favor of just testing as patients showed up at the hospitals. The only thing the US was tracking for a while were severe cases or hospitalizations.ETFan said:
What caused the sharp drop in Houston? Effects of SD/shutdown finally kicking in or reporting?
It's hard for me to believe too, considering that there are several pop-up, drive-in, free testing locations in the Houston area. You don't even need to have symptoms to be tested. If you want a test, you can get a test.Complete Idiot said:It's hard for me to believe that's true given Texas has conducted 315,000 total tests and only 27,000 thousand were positive. The US has tested 6,000,000 with only 1,000,000 positive.Rock1983 said:Mainly, they shut the drive thru testing in favor of just testing as patients showed up at the hospitals. The only thing the US was tracking for a while were severe cases or hospitalizations.ETFan said:
What caused the sharp drop in Houston? Effects of SD/shutdown finally kicking in or reporting?
That's a high, high percentage of negative tests if only testing severe cases and hospitalizations.
The peak is exactly 14 days after the county issued their shelter-in-place.ETFan said:
What caused the sharp drop in Houston? Effects of SD/shutdown finally kicking in or reporting?
More antibody testing?MBAR said:
So whats up with Fort Worth?
Their graph has been cycling for a while now with a downward trend mixed with a couple of higher spikes.Duncan Idaho said:
They opened up
ETFan said:
Is you US daily deaths missing the last two days that were in the mids 2ks?
April 28th, 29th, 30th have all been well over 2k deaths unless I'm mistaken? 2470, 2390, and 2201.Philip J Fry said:ETFan said:
Is you US daily deaths missing the last two days that were in the mids 2ks?
No, that's the day an additional 3k were accounted for.
ETFan said:April 28th, 29th, 30th have all been well over 2k deaths unless I'm mistaken? 2470, 2390, and 2201.Philip J Fry said:ETFan said:
Is you US daily deaths missing the last two days that were in the mids 2ks?
No, that's the day an additional 3k were accounted for.
PJYoung said:ETFan said:April 28th, 29th, 30th have all been well over 2k deaths unless I'm mistaken? 2470, 2390, and 2201.Philip J Fry said:ETFan said:
Is you US daily deaths missing the last two days that were in the mids 2ks?
No, that's the day an additional 3k were accounted for.
Yes they have been according to worldometer.
Rock1983 said:Mainly, they shut the drive thru testing in favor of just testing as patients showed up at the hospitals. The only thing the US was tracking for a while were severe cases or hospitalizations. Now we are ramping testing again and the numbers are continuing to go up, but we are catching a lot more of the mild cases.ETFan said:
What caused the sharp drop in Houston? Effects of SD/shutdown finally kicking in or reporting?
Overall, infection rate seems a worthless measure right now as its more driven by testing than anything else. Severe cases, hospitalization, deaths I think are the only meaningful measures now......maybe antibody testing will eventually be a meaningful measure, but right now, no one knows what having antibodies does for you.
Another measure that would be interesting is to measure the economic toll vs number of deaths or severe cases. Saw a report that showed economic shut down is costing 500-600 jobs per death from Covid. If you apply minimum wage, that roughly 16-18mm/yr of wages lost due to shut down for each death......or roughly 1.5mm/death/month. Unfortunately, I think this measure will go down overtime as the deaths pile up and some jobs come back.
