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He was disappointed in both. Your increase in sample size will result in increase positives even with a positive rate that's been fairly consistent day to day in ND.

In ND....32 positive cases today. One death. If we have 33 cases tomorrow do we reset the "2 weeks"? Bigger question.....will Doug find these numbers "disappointing"?

So we are learning that the infectious rate is 50-85x higher than advertised.........

I get the "criteria" but ND has had 2 days of 50 or more positive tests. Are we ramping up testing of asymptomatic people just to move the needle up....and continually add "2 more weeks"?

No wonder Doug found Tuesday's numbers "disappointing".

As I was traveling yesterday I heard on the radio that the projected death total economically will be around 77000. Not sure if I buy that number anymore than the original 1-2M projected deaths from COVID but found it interesting that the projected economic death total now is more than the latest death projections from the virus.

If you took the over again this week you're a winner. 4.43M more out of work over the past week. Unemployment now at roughly 16%. #savelives

Mayo Clinic is furloughing or reducing hours for 42% of it's employees across all campuses. Will affect roughly 30000 employees. Doctors and administrators taking paycuts of 10-20%. Main hospital in Rochester at 35-40% capacity. Surgical volume at 25-30%. Overall estimated loss is at $3B when this blows over.

I thought I read somewhere in the Minneapolis area over 30% haven't even checked in or done anything. Based in 25-30% non-participation seems like Montana is doing the right thing to at least give the school districts the option to get kids back in the classroom.

According to JAMA of the 5700+ hospitalized patients in the Northwell Health System in NY 94% had more than one underlying medical issue other than COVID. HTN, obesity and DM, in that order, were the top 3 underlying issues. Who knew being a borderline physical train wreck increased one's risk?!?!

Funny thing with distance learning, according to one of my daughters, is the really poor students miraculously got smarter over the past few weeks.....grade wise.

And if you're fine with having a house/yard full of neighborhood kids/friends you should feel comfortable sending your kids back to school. ...and if not when?

If you had kids above 12 years old you probably would.

Took a day to pack it up. A day to bring stuff back. Most kids would go back tomorrow. One of my best friends lives in Montana. His daughter is a Sr in HS. He texted me she was in tears when he told her the possibility of her finishing her Sr year in a classroom with her teachers and friends.

Zero chance for MN. Walz still sitting on 20K.

Glad their governor sees the big picture. Good for him and the kids in MT.

Year to date 31 OD deaths in ND

Delta reported $534M loss in first quarter. 2nd quarter projected to be worse.

So on that note the weekly jobless claims report comes out tomorrow morning. Opening line is another 4.2M

If only Newsom had that info weeks ago he could have had the sand truck come in sooner.

He was also quoted that it was "disappointing" to see the low testing numbers (240) and confirmed cases (17) for the day in his press conference yesterday as well. Interesting take that the lowest confirmed cases in a single day since 4/13 would be "disappointing" to the governor of ND.

Horrible takes? Ok Ms. Fauci. People infected is/will be exponentially higher than estimated. When the death rate is finally figured out I'm not convinced it will be much higher than the flu especially in those under 60. Could be wrong. Might be higher in that demographic but not substantially. We'll see. ND doesn't have many deaths fortunately but IIRC no one under 60 has died. Last two quotes posts are nothing more than statistics based on certain demographics. You obviously don't like numbers. Maybe if you'd watched this guy on TV as kid you could have turned out to be something admirable like your sister.

Since there's been some discussion about kids and getting them back to some normalcy CDC.gov is updated and 2/1 thru 4/18 it reports 28 total COVID only and COVID+pneumonia deaths (confirmed and presumed) for individuals 24 years of age and younger. That age group makes up roughly 103M individuals in this country.

Valid points and they are but expound on the bolded part. How are kids getting back to school, soccer, dance, summer theater, Legion baseball, ect... and people going back to work over the next couple to few weeks mutually exclusive??? There's zero rational behind that. Those two scenarios can happen at the same time. I'll assume your kids haven't been to a grocery store, Walmart, Target since mid March. Who said it had to be "all or nothing"? Going to a Shawn Mendes concert is a whole lot different than going to a dance class or soccer/baseball practice.

Let's just "presume" COVID killed it......