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I read your link. It says the peak in April saw 2,000 cases a day, with other days at 1,000 new cases. That’s when they were doing fewer tests. They’ve more than doubled the number of tests done, but new cases are hovering around 700. There were 900 yesterday, but those included a rash of delayed tests from previous days. Where is the spike? How will this translate to more deaths, when cases are down from the peak?
Seriously, show me the numbers for a spike.
As for the media, if you honestly believe that most sources don’t go out of their way to present things in a negative light that can then be used against anyone or anything they view as right-leaning, then you’re not looking at the big picture in an objective manner. I’m a bit conservative, a bit libertarian, and a bit liberal. Media plays up liberal issues as virtuous and worthy, demonizes conservative ideas, and ridicules libertarian ideals. Can you really not see what they’re doing? It actually forces me to defend the conservative side way more than if they could maintain some balance.
It’s not in the entire state, it’s in certain areas. And no I don’t think Governor Wolf is going to go by the media to decide how to handle coronavirus in his state. And no one ever said it was a huge spike like they’re having in Florida or Texas, they’re just seeing an uptick a number so they’re taking half a step back to mitigate it so they don’t become Florida or Texas.
I just got back from a doctor's appointment in Newark. His office is attached to St. Michael's hospital.
I was last there on March 6. He told me that all hell broke loose the week after that. First they had two patients with coronavirus, the next day there were four, and from there on it continued to double so that there were more than sixty by the end of the first week. They never ran out of beds because they died as fast as they were coming in. He closed his office because they needed everyone at the hospital, so he and his staff worked there. He said that for a while he thought his practice was over and that he would never be able to reopen his office.
As of today, St. Michael's has two coronavirus patients. He does not believe it's gone, just that it's going to be a "whack-a-mole" situation from now on.
Posted this yesterday. Last night I got a call from my sister, who went to see her kidney doctor in Bergen County yesterday. He was also my mother's kidney doctor. My sister was shocked to find out that the doctor didn't know my mother had died. He said he'd been to the dialysis center she went to, but he figured the schedule was just off and he was missing her. It turns out that the doctor's father died the same day my mother did, only his father did die of COVID-19.
She said like my endocrinologist, her renal doc seemed shell-shocked by what they had seen and dealt with over the past couple of months. This one had his own father's death on top of his work at Hackensack and Valley.
Some of these medical folks are going to have a lot of bad memories for a long time, I think.
The numbers that went down, did so drastically too. The Gov also hinted at indoor dining during Q&A after a 7 day rolling average decline. (fingers crossed). The ICU and ventilator numbers still a decline over a 7 day period.
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