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re: OT: Alabama Coronavirus Thread (see link in OP for case numbers and death totals in AL)
Posted on 4/5/20 at 3:58 pm to Cobrasize
Posted on 4/5/20 at 3:58 pm to Cobrasize
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New COVID-19 tests coming to Lee County
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OPELIKA, Ala. (WSFA) - By the end of the week, Stopwatch Urgent Care in Opelika will have a new COVID-19 test.
“The test that we are going to receive is going to actually work via fingerprint,”said Stopwatch Urgent Care Chief Medical Officer Dr. Kyle Adams.
The test most commonly used right now requires a long, deep nasal swab, and results take a couple of days.
“The tests that are mostly being used right now are done with a nasal swab, and what they’re doing is they’re going off to a lab at another location and that can be in a different state oftentimes," said Adams. “So they have to be shipped out, and they are checking the nasal mucus that’s collected for viral DNA or RNA.”
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This new test uses a blood sample and will produce results in about 15 minutes.
WSFA
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Posted on 4/5/20 at 4:37 pm to Bobby OG Johnson
1812 cases
Posted on 4/5/20 at 4:43 pm to pvilleguru
Probably > 2000 by Monday night.
This post was edited on 4/5/20 at 4:46 pm
Posted on 4/5/20 at 4:45 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
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Here is a really good website with COVID-19 data and graphs for Alabama: LINK
Thank you. This is one of the most clearly formatted ones.
https://alcovid19.info/
Posted on 4/5/20 at 5:04 pm to TidalSurge1
+179 cases today.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 5:04 pm to wm72
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ABC 33/40 News
@abc3340
A tiger at the Bronx Zoo has tested positive for the new coronavirus, in what is believed to be the first known infection of an animal in the U.S. or a tiger anywhere, federal officials and the zoo said Sunday.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 5:51 pm to wm72
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are losing too much money without drastically reducing service.
Perhaps they are losing money, but that has nothing to do with the current reduction in service. 4,069 MTA employees are currently under quarantine due to COVID-19.
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None of those people want to be on those crowded trains but they are doing to so to get from Queens/Brooklyn to their work in Manhattan to staff hospitals, electric company, police stations, grocery stores, sanitation etc. . .
Leaving that out isn't falsifying a thing. Everyone knows this is how most of the city gets from one borough to another for work. It has been that way for decades and it's never going to change. It's also unsafe as hell, and there's nothing wrong with pointing that out.
This post was edited on 4/5/20 at 5:58 pm
Posted on 4/5/20 at 6:05 pm to Evolved Simian
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Leaving that out isn't falsifying a goddamn thing. Everyone knows this is how most of the city gets from one borough to another for work. It has been that way for decades and it's never going to change. It's also unsafe as hell, and there's nothing wrong with pointing that out.
You could not be more wrong and you are just making yourself look like an uneducated arse by directing your "goddamm" toward my post. .
This specific photo has made it's way around every forum I read -- including about 100 times on the Poli Board and OT Lounge here.
It is always with the exact same connotation as it was in the post to which I replied -- mainly implying that people NY are simply ignoring the social distancing protocols -- where people trying to get work is juxtaposed to a picture of people out for a leisurely stroll on the beach.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 6:33 pm to Roll Tide Ravens
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+208 cases today.
So far
Posted on 4/5/20 at 7:42 pm to wm72
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wm72
I had already removed it before you ever made your post, because I doubted that someone as angry and misled as yourself could look past it.
You seem really upset that facts get in the way of your public transit narrative. And I've never seen that picture anywhere, but you downplaying the significance of absolute reliance on public transportation as a factor in the spread of the virus is stupid, disingenuous, and petty. And it's simply because you don't like the way your dumbass Facebook friends posted it.
This post was edited on 4/5/20 at 7:53 pm
Posted on 4/5/20 at 8:03 pm to Evolved Simian
Geneva County finally joining the Covid19 party
Correction: Geneva County still with 0
Correction: Geneva County still with 0
This post was edited on 4/5/20 at 8:49 pm
Posted on 4/5/20 at 8:12 pm to Evolved Simian
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You seem really upset that facts get in the way of your public transit narrative.
If you actually care, just look a couple of pages back at the way the photo was posted: juxtaposed with the casual beach strollers in the context of public efforts to social distance.
It was posted with a similar context in the same way all over the OT lounge and Poli Board threads.
The implication by context is always that New Yorkers are just choosing to pack into these subway cars--like, for example people choosing to stroll on a beach -- instead of it being the only way they can get to crucial jobs since the MTA reduced service.
We're in complete agreement that it's horrible and certainly a "factor (I would add STRONG FACTOR) in the spread" as you put it. Could not agree with you any more.
The picture that story tells though is of people pretty much forced into those conditions unless they don't show up for work at the hospital or sanitation department and not just "taking social distancing lightly". That was really the entire point. Have a good night.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 8:45 pm to CrimsonShadow
Posted on 4/5/20 at 8:59 pm to CrimsonShadow
Oh you will see flu cases fall tremendously. The same social distancing steps that are combatting covid also work very well to limit the spread of the plain old flu.
Something else - if you are not in a covid hotspot ER visits are way down. We made several transports to our local hospitals last week where there were very few patients. Twice the only one they had was the one we brought them. One doc actually came out to check out our rig because he had nothing else to do.
All those people who last month called 911 for the ear ache, sore toe, or the dozens of other craptastic reasons they’ll use have suddenly decided those things aren’t nearly as bad as a trip to the covid-infested hospital. It has been pretty nice to only go to people who actually NEED an ambulance instead of an Uber.
Something else - if you are not in a covid hotspot ER visits are way down. We made several transports to our local hospitals last week where there were very few patients. Twice the only one they had was the one we brought them. One doc actually came out to check out our rig because he had nothing else to do.
All those people who last month called 911 for the ear ache, sore toe, or the dozens of other craptastic reasons they’ll use have suddenly decided those things aren’t nearly as bad as a trip to the covid-infested hospital. It has been pretty nice to only go to people who actually NEED an ambulance instead of an Uber.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 10:04 pm to JustGetItRight
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All those people who last month called 911 for the ear ache, sore toe, or the dozens of other craptastic reasons they’ll use have suddenly decided those things aren’t nearly as bad as a trip to the covid-infested hospital.
Actually a positive of this virus, for sure.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 10:58 pm to East Coast Band
Posted on 4/5/20 at 11:30 pm to Snout Spout
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Finally updated tonight. Alabama projections look much better now. Hope those hold.
I was just coming here to post this. Definitely better now that they're projecting no shortage of ICU beds or ventilators, and far fewer deaths.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 11:37 pm to Evolved Simian
Massive drop in projected deaths from a peak of 9-9500 1 week ago.
And I wouldn’t say it’s the stay at home order being factored in either. At least not that massive of a drop. Mississippi’s projected death total only dropped by a hundred the day order was added to the data. Georgia’s just got added like ours but their projected actually went up by a 100.
Something was really funky with their numbers regarding Alabama last week
And I wouldn’t say it’s the stay at home order being factored in either. At least not that massive of a drop. Mississippi’s projected death total only dropped by a hundred the day order was added to the data. Georgia’s just got added like ours but their projected actually went up by a 100.
Something was really funky with their numbers regarding Alabama last week
This post was edited on 4/5/20 at 11:41 pm
Posted on 4/5/20 at 11:50 pm to 1BamaRTR
Covid has provided more evidence that Alabama students are more reasonable than Auburn students. Alabama has more students than Auburn, within a larger town, yet Lee County has almost twice the number of Covid cases as Tuscaloosa.
Posted on 4/5/20 at 11:52 pm to Evolved Simian
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I was just coming here to post this. Definitely better now that they're projecting no shortage of ICU beds or ventilators, and far fewer deaths.
It's probably because those doom and gloom predictions haven't been accurate anywhere in the US.
This post was edited on 4/5/20 at 11:53 pm
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