Arkansas
Related: About this forum'All of a Sudden It Blows Up': Arkansas' COVID Problem Is Just Getting Started
For months, New Yorkers saw their hospitals flood with COVID-19 patients and bodies pile up in refrigerated overflow morgue trucks. Meanwhile, other parts of the country never even implemented a statewide lockdown.
For those hoping a slew of Southern and rural states might have avoided the worst of the pandemic entirely, Friday’s case counts provided a grim answer.
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“It is important for our community to understand that we are not seeing more hospitalizations simply because more testing is being done,” added Wright. “We are seeing more hospitalizations because more people in our area are being infected with the virus.”
In the past week, Wright said, Washington Regional had seen a 170 percent increase in the number of tests performed at screening clinics, and a 350 percent increase in the number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Of those, it also saw more critically ill virus patients, with more than 30 percent of those who’d been hospitalized requiring ventilator support.
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mucifer
(25,093 posts)It's the fricking disease that causes hospitalizations.
LiberalArkie
(17,801 posts)Ever day the governor gives the results. Every time he say about the area where breakout happened "Of course, we just increased the testing there"
mucifer
(25,093 posts)LiberalArkie
(17,801 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(32,820 posts)still alive a year from now will look back on now as the "good ole days.", I was just assuming what the science was saying was right.
Rump is a fascist and the dumbest adult on earth and he is killing us, he will kill millions of us before his actions are done. Even if a miracle happens and putin allows us to have an election (the election done properly guarantees Joe wins if we do our jobs) and Joe is put in we still will suffer tremendously DIRECTLY because of the traitor and ALL OF YOU FUCKERS OUT THERE who support him
YOU are ALL killers...every last one of you.
SheltieLover
(65,822 posts)Here, too in Memphis area.
New cases daily were ~80. Now nearly 200/day.
LiberalArkie
(17,801 posts)It would go away when it got hot. Nope it seems this is not your ordinary "flu".
SheltieLover
(65,822 posts)That is what they say here: "It's just the flu." 😳🤯
Buckeye_Democrat
(15,200 posts)... checking this site's map for the growing outbreaks:
https://covid19-projections.com
The map labeled "C19Pro Score" generally shows where new infection percentages are outpacing new testing percentages, which indicates there's more cases not "explained away" by simply more testing.