Coronavirus in Massachusetts (Chelsea, Florida: Publix, homes, living)

[htfdcolt]

Originally Posted by yesmaybe

% positive tests down to 1.6%.

Keeping fingers crossed...as we head into the next 3 weeks, and see the effect of having reopened the gyms & movie theaters.

[GeoffD]

Originally Posted by RBThescot

Texans don't need health insurance. Just hold up a Bible, a picture of the Alamo, fire a warning shot and you're protected.

Those people have insurance. It's largely the brown people and black people who don't. I imagine that when the articles come out 2 months from now categorizing the body count, it will be like anywhere else. Other than nursing homes, most people who die are mostly in the bottom 20th percentile for household income. Many will die at home uncounted because they don't have health insurance or have massively high deductible insurance. If you're in the middle class in Houston, you're single family home and automobile in the sprawl. You're probably going to avoid it.

[Bridge781]

Is it really just poor people who are dying of covid? They might make up the majority of deaths but that hasn’t been the case for all. I can think of a handful of people right now who’ve died of it and they weren’t poor.

[GeoffD]

Originally Posted by Bridge781

Is it really just poor people who are dying of covid? They might make up the majority of deaths but that hasn’t been the case for all. I can think of a handful of people right now who’ve died of it and they weren’t poor.

70% in nursing homes are on Medicaid. Poor and in a nursing home is easily half the deaths in Massachusetts. I’d bet easily 75% of deaths are poverty level people.

[Bridge781]

Didn’t a broadway star just die of it?

[BostonMike7]

My MIL still doesn’t feel right after her recovery from covid back in March. She spent the night in the ER doing tests (which all came back fine) but she feels as if she still has shortness of breath and some neurological/vision issues.

Apparently, from what she was told, they are seeing a number of people who have recovered that come back after a few months becUse they don’t feel good still.

She went to Mass General.

[CaseyB]

Originally Posted by Bridge781

Didn’t a broadway star just die of it?

Yes. Nick Cordero.

[sawyer2]

The poor are disproportionately negatively impacted by COV19. More congested, have to go to work and don’t have the luxury of waiting it out.

Look at Chelsea - at one point it had a COVID death rate several times that of Boston.

[yesmaybe]

Originally Posted by sawyer2

Look at Chelsea - at one point it had a COVID death rate several times that of Boston.

That might have been because of the Soldiers Home. Not exactly rich but they are also probably not going anywhere. The virus came to them.

[robr2]

Originally Posted by yesmaybe

That might have been because of the Soldiers Home. Not exactly rich but they are also probably not going anywhere. The virus came to them.

As of last week, Chelsea had 2955 cases. I know the Soldier's Home was a hot spot but AFAIK, there aren't that many residents there.