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11/27/2020:
Leading Latex Glove Manufacturer Closing
Plants
Now a Shortage of Specialists to
Use Ventilators
How the Cherokee Nation Controlled COVID-19
Drug Companies Warn of
Vaccine Side Effects
Journalists:
Essential & Critical infrastructure Workforce
This Week's Statistics
Florida Department
of Health's dashboard
Florida's
COVID-19 Action dashboard
11/20/2020:
Another
Shortage of Surgical Gloves as Cases Surge Again
CDC Urges You to Say Home this
Thanksgiving, but if you do travel....
What does
emergency approval of a COVID-19 vaccine mean?
Masks Still
Needed After You Get the Vaccine
Delirium May Be a Sign of COVID-19
in the Elderly
Patients Dying of
COVID-19 Refusing to Believe It
ER Doctor Got Virus and
Urges People to Wear Masks
This Week's Statistics
Florida Department
of Health's dashboard
Florida's
COVID-19 Action dashboard
11/13/2020:
COVID-19 Risk Assessment Travel Planning
Tool
Study: Almost 2,000 Marines &
Asymptomatic Spread
Holiday Celebrations & Small Gatherings
COVID-19 Patients Developed Psychiatric
Disorders
Woman Shed the Virus for 70 Days
w/out Symptoms
9% of Hospitalized
Patients Readmitted w/in 2 Months
This Week's Statistics
Florida Department
of Health's dashboard
Florida's
COVID-19 Action dashboard
11/6/2020:
U.S. Shattered Records for New Cases This Week Worst Hit Regions
Still Resist Wearing Masks
The Psychology Behind Not
Wearing Masks
Healthcare
Workers the First to Get the Vaccine
Delaware's
Mask & Stay-at-home Orders Suppressed Transmission
This Week's Statistics
Florida Department
of Health's dashboard
Florida's
COVID-19 Action dashboard
Friday, November 27th
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Last week, it was reported that there is another shortage of medical gloves.
This week, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported that the
world's leading latex glove manufacturer,
Top Glove, is shutting down more than half of its factories because of COVID-19.
They are doing it in phases to try and control the outbreak in its
factories, making the shortage worse. The U.S. banned gloves from two of the
company’s subsidiaries because of labor concerns, and according to the
Government Accountability Office’s director of health care, latex glove
supplies in the U.S.
are nowhere near adequate.
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In the spring,
hospitals begged for ventilators, and the Trump administration can
rightfully claim that Operation Warp Speed ignited new ventilator
manufacturing. Now we have a
shortage
of pulmonologists, respiratory therapists and critical care specialists
to use those machines. With new cases approaching 200,000 per day and a
flood of patients straining hospitals across the country, public health
experts warn that the ample supply of available ventilators may not be
enough to save many critically ill patients. Despite an overall increase in
the number of ventilators, some researchers say many of the new machines may
be inadequate for the current crisis. Half of the new devices acquired by
the Strategic National Stockpile were not sophisticated enough for Covid-19
patients in severe respiratory distress, many didn't work, and there is
concern about the long-term viability of machines that
require frequent maintenance. And since no uniform specifications were
provided, parts are not interchangeable from manufacturer to manufacturer.
A success story:
how
the Cherokee Nation controlled COVID-19 when others wouldn't or couldn't.
The Cherokee Nation said they followed the science, stockpiled supplies of personal protective equipment,
began drive-thru testing, required masks, offered rapid tests in schools
(and did reopen in-person teaching) and has recorded a far lower COVID-19
cases and death rate as those numbers surge in surrounding Oklahoma,
where the White House coronavirus task force says spread is unyielding.
"It’s dire, but what in the world would it look like if we weren’t doing
this work?" said Lisa Pivec, senior director of public health for Cherokee
Nation Health Services. With no guidance on contact tracing from the CDC,
she studied how the World Health Organization (WHO) responded to the Ebola
outbreak and set up their own tracing protocols after the first case
appeared on the reservation back on March 24th.
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Pfizer and Moderna
both warned this week that their COVID-19 vaccines are likely to make
you feel under the weather and maybe
a
little sore. They are trying
to prepare the public on what to expect and plan for it. They worry that
the potential side effects might be enough to deter people from coming back
for the second dose, which is more likely to cause a side effect strong
enough to cost a workday, but is critical — the difference between not being
immune and being immune — they've got to come back for that second shot.
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The
National Press Photographers Association (NPPA) filed a
request with the CDC’s Advisory Committee of Immunization Practices
asking that journalists and others in the telecommunications field with
direct and regular contact with the public be included in the "essential and
critical infrastructure workforce" phase of giving the COVID-19 vaccine,
recognizing them as essential workers and in
a similar priority as those working in critical manufacturing, schools, bus
drivers and workers who maintain the power grid.
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As usual, I am showing statistics from two dashboards/data portals:
Florida's Dept. of Health (DOH) statistics and Florida's COVID Action statistics (both developed by Rebekah Jones).
(Click on images
to enlarge them.)
However,
their accuracy may be off since testing is down and there were reporting
issues, but you still should be able to see the trends.
-
  Per
the
Florida
Department of Health's dashboard*
as of Friday,
November 27th,
the state now has
963,751 residents testing positive
for COVID-19, with
54,467 hospitalized, and
18,363 deaths.**
As you can see, the number of cases are on the rise again.
The breakdown
of confirmed cases in our tri-county area is:
- Sumter
County:
3,412 cases (3,393 residents, 19 non-residents), 317 hospitalizations,
with 95 deaths
(median age now: 57, now 56% males, 43% females)
- Lake
County:
10,472 cases (10,380 residents, 92 non-residents),
818 hospitalizations
(14 non-residents), with 253 deaths (median age
still: 44, 46% males, 52% females)
- Marion
County:
12,863 cases (12,824 residents,
35 non-residents),
1,142 hospitalizations (2 non-residents), with 379 deaths (median age
still: 43, 41% males, 58% females)
* The new data includes the number of test results the department
receives from the counties, along with additional demographics and
graphs that show hospital admissions for patients complaining of
cough, fever or shortness of breath.
Previously, that data was only provided for larger counties.
Still not included is how many infected people have
recovered from the virus and, unlike other states, Florida does not report
"probable" deaths
from the virus.
** The newest reported deaths are the latest logged into the DOH
system, and that process could take as long as two weeks or longer
before they show up.
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Per
the
Florida's
COVID Action
dashboard
as of Friday,
November
27th,
the state now has
1,074,361 residents testing positive
(17,344
cases today, 55,801 cases this past week,
88,251 K-12 pediatric/staff cases this week);
with 3,748
requiring hospitalization;
and 18,596
deaths (114 deaths today, 566 deaths this past week).
The breakdown of confirmed cases in our tri-county area is:
- Sumter
County:
3,675 cases
since March 1st (59 cases today, 162 this week),
157 pediatric cases with
83 K-12 cases (66 students/17 staff),
17 current hospitalizations, and 95 deaths
(3 deaths today,
4 this
week).

- Lake
County: 11.238 cases
since March 1st (199 cases today, 525 this week),
944 pediatric cases with 275 K-12
cases (180 students/95 staff),
57 current hospitalizations, and
256 deaths (3 deaths today,
10 this week).
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Marion
County:
13,339 cases
since March 1st (235 cases today, 668 this week),
1,012 pediatric cases with 335 K-12
cases (228 students/107 staff),
51 current hospitalizations, and 379 deaths
(2 deaths today,
7 this week).
None of these counties meet the criteria for the next phase of
reopening. |
Friday, November 20th
-
Another shortage of surgical
gloves as COVID-19 cases surge again.
The synthetic rubber "nitrile" gloves are a critical barrier to infection
for health care workers on the front lines, but experts say the United
States is poorly positioned to get ahead of a global shortfall of more than
200 billion. “Gloves are just needed everywhere,” Mary Denigan-Macauley, the
Government Accountability Office’s director of health care, said. She said
her team recommended the federal government come up with a plan to "mitigate
these critical supply needs," but that no such plan materialized. In
Florida, a truckload of 6 million medical gloves bought by Medgluv, a
Florida based distributor for local hospitals, was brazenly stolen from a
warehouse.
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The
CDC emphatically says to stay home this Thanksgiving, and
if you are traveling, wear as mask. And if you are feeling sick, have
recently tested positive even if not feeling ill,
or have had contact with
someone with COVID-19 in the past 14 days, DO NOT travel at all, and do not
travel with someone who is sick. If traveling, the CDC provides guidelines
for preparing for your trip, during your trip, and breaks it down to your
mode of transportation. It also provides tips for being out, using the
bathroom or travel stops, getting gas, stopping for food, staying at a hotel
or motel, when to get tested afterward, and more.
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Pfizer and BioNTech requested emergency authorization from FDA for
their Covid
vaccine today. If Pfizer’s application is approved, the vaccine will likely be
limited and rolled out in phases.
But
what does
emergency use of a COVID-19 vaccine mean? It's when regulators allow
shots to be given to certain people while studies of safety and
effectiveness are ongoing. During a health crisis, the FDA can loosen its
normal scientific standards to allow emergency use of experimental drugs,
devices, vaccines and other medical products. Instead of the usual
requirement of "substantial evidence" of safety and effectiveness for
approval, the FDA can allow products onto the market as long as their
benefits are likely to outweigh their risks. Full approval of a vaccine will
likely require 6 months of safety follow-up, as well as extensive
inspections of company manufacturing sites. The leading vaccine makers are
not expected to complete that process until next spring or summer. Only then
is the FDA expected to grant full approval, which would allow vaccinations
of the general population.
-
However, even with a vaccine,
you will still need to social distance and
wear masks. Dr. Anthony Fauci warns "it's not going to be a light switch"
back
to normalcy, even when a COVID-19 vaccine becomes available to the public.
In fact, he recommends people still wear masks and practice social
distancing even after getting the vaccine. Even if it is 90% to 95%
effective to the general population, it may not be that effective for you
and you may still get the virus. "In addition, the protective effect of a
vaccine may take at least one month, if not slightly longer." Dr. Bruce
Hirsch, another infectious disease specialist, adds that many people have
strong feelings about vaccines and may not take them, which may prevent the
general population from becoming immune and prolong the threat of the
pandemic. It is worth noting that as the trials for both vaccines (Pfizer's
& Moderna's) progress, their effectiveness numbers could change. It's also
not yet clear how long any immunity would last.
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A new
study, has found that
delirium
may be an early warning sign of Covid-19 infection in older adults, and in some
cases, it was the only symptom.
More than a quarter of older patients in the study arrived in
hospital ERs with delirium, and 37% of them had no typical
Covid-19 signs. Delirium, confusion, inattention, disorientation, and other cognitive
change is a common sign of any infection in older people.
A pulmonologist and critical care physician at Vanderbilt
University, who was not involved in the study said, "The message to get to the lay public and medical personnel is that
if people are confused, pay attention, because right now they could have Covid. When they came to hospital emergency departments,
less than half were screened and diagnosed using a test such as the
Confusion Assessment Method,
a tool developed by a team including Vanderbilt’s Ely and Sharon Inouye of
Harvard Medical School, who is a co-author of the current study. The
remaining patients’ symptoms were compared to checklists from the Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization to
confirm the delirium diagnosis.
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Jodi Doering, an ER nurse in Woonsocket, South Dakota, made news this week
as she lamented in tweets and on
several
network and cable shows the number of Covid patients going to their deaths,
refusing to believe they have the virus. "Their last dying words are, 'This can’t be happening. It’s not
real.' " She says patients insist they must have pneumonia, even lung cancer,
anything but the disease they’ve been persuaded doesn't exist. When they
should be spending time on Facetime saying goodbye to their families,
they’re filled with anger and hatred. She's overwhelmed, exhausted, frustrated,
and infuriated with patients who "scream at you for a magic medicine and that Joe Biden is going to ruin
the USA, all while gasping for breath.... They tell you there must be
another reason they are sick, call you names, and ask why you have to
wear all that 'stuff' because they don’t have COVID, it’s not real."
-
Nearly two weeks ago,
Dr. Dave Burkard woke with fatigue, a cough and shortness of breath. The
28-year-old emergency medicine resident knew exactly what it was:
COVID-19.
After months of living and working through the pandemic, he had somehow
caught it. Yet, he was surprised by how sick he became even though he was
healthy and active. For two days, Burkard’s fever wouldn’t break, but
then he started improving and feeling closer to his "normal self." But
around day 6, things took a turn for the worse, and he had to go to the
ER. If we don't take COVID-19 seriously, it will affect all of us, not just
health care providers or patients, it'll reach farther. While he doesn’t want to shame people who don't wear masks or think COVID-19
is a hoax, he hopes that his story inspires them to take precautions because
they want to be kind to people in their communities. It's not about fear
mongering. It's about just having love for the people around us and respect
for them.
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As usual, I am showing statistics from two dashboards/data portals:
Florida's Dept. of Health (DOH) statistics and Florida's COVID Action statistics (both developed by Rebekah Jones).
(Click on images
to enlarge them.)
However,
their accuracy may be off since testing is down and there were reporting
issues, but you still should be able to see the trends.
-
 Per
the
Florida
Department of Health's dashboard*
as of Friday,
November 20th,
the state now has
910,065 residents testing positive
for COVID-19, with
53,091 hospitalized, and
17,889 deaths.**
As you can see, the number of cases are on the rise again.
The breakdown
of confirmed cases in our tri-county area is:
- Sumter
County:
3,248 cases (3,229 residents, 19 non-residents), 310 hospitalizations,
with 92 deaths
(median age still: 56, 57% males, 43% females)
- Lake
County:
9,946 cases (9,867 residents, 79 non-residents), 796 hospitalizations
(14 non-residents), with 243 deaths (median age
still: 44, 46% males, 52% females)

- Marion
County:
12,220 cases (12,185 residents,
35 non-residents),
1,142 hospitalizations (2 non-residents), with 375 deaths (median age
still: 43, 41% males, 59% females)
* The new data includes the number of test results the department
receives from the counties, along with additional demographics and
graphs that show hospital admissions for patients complaining of
cough, fever or shortness of breath.
Previously, that data was only provided for larger counties.
Still not included is how many infected people have
recovered from the virus and, unlike other states, Florida does not report
"probable" deaths
from the virus.
** The newest reported deaths are the latest logged into the DOH
system, and that process could take as long as two weeks or longer
before they show up.
|

Per
the
Florida's
COVID Action
dashboard
as of Friday,
November 20th,
the state now has
1,009,562
residents testing positive
(9,085
cases today, 53,157 cases
this past week, 82,103 K-12 pediatric/staff cases this week);
with 3,439
requiring hospitalization; and
18,110
deaths (80 deaths today, 451 deaths this past week).
The breakdown of confirmed cases in our tri-county area is:
- Sumter
County:
3,483 cases (18 cases today, 116 this week), 152 K-12
Pediatric cases (62 students/16 staff),
15 hospitalizations this week, and 92 deaths
(1 death
today, 3 this
week).

- Lake
County: 10,546 cases (74 cases today, 373 this
week), 847 K-12 Pediatric cases
(139 students/83 staff), 52 hospitalizations this
week, and 246 deaths (0 deaths today, 2 this week).
- Marion
County:
12,625 cases (159 cases today, 632 this week), 965 K-12
Pediatric cases
(191 students/82 staff), 44 hospitalizations this
week, and 375 deaths
(3 deaths
today, 13 this week).
None of these counties meet the criteria for the next phase of
reopening. |
Friday, November 13th
- Want to
know
how risky it would be to travel for Thanksgiving? The COVID-19
Risk Assessment Planning Tool, built by Georgia Tech researchers, helps
you see the risks of gatherings across the country given the event size and
location. Enter the event size (e.g., 10 people), then find the state and
county you want to visit. If we stay in Sumter County for Thanksgiving
dinner with 10 guests attending, we have a 6% chance of
at least 1 COVID-19 positive individual will be present, but if we
travel to Hillsborough County, our chances increase to 10%. The tool is
updated daily so that percentage may change tomorrow.
- A study of nearly 2,000 Marine recruits who went
through supervised
quarantine before starting basic training revealed several instances of
asymptomatic transmission of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. Few infected recruits had symptoms before
diagnosis. The study data revealed asymptomatic spread of the virus
even under strict military orders for quarantine and public health measures
that most likely experienced better compliance than what would be possible
in other youth settings like college campuses. The researchers noted that
daily temperature and symptom checks did not detect infections.
- We look
forward
to holidays so we can reconnect with
family and friends. Unfortunately, the COVID-19 epidemic is worsening, and
small household gatherings are an important contributor to the rise in
COVID-19 cases. CDC offers things you should consider during small gatherings,
when you should not attend in-person holiday gatherings, guidelines if
hosting or attending a gathering, food and drink considerations, safety
measures you can take if traveling or staying overnight, steps you should
take if exposed to COVID-19 during a gathering, and be informed about the
risk connected with your activities.
- The medical journal The Lancet
Psychiatry published a report that says patients who are diagnosed with
COVID-19 are at a
greater risk for developing mental health disorders,
including
anxiety, depression, dementia, and insomnia. The study says that around 22%,
or 1 in 5 patients who survive the illness, will have some signs of mental
health issues within 90 days of being infected. People with a pre-existing
mental illness were 65% more likely to be diagnosed with COVID-19 than those
without. The good news, a significant proportion of
people do get better with time and/or with treatment.
- On March 2nd, a 71-year-old hospital patient with leukemia tested
positive for the novel coronavirus. On average, COVID-19 patients shed
infectious virus particles for about eight days.
But 70 days after her
diagnosis, the patient was still shedding infectious particles. By mid-June,
more than 100 days later, the woman was still testing positive, indicating
that her body still contained traces of the virus, when she still could have
passed the virus to others. The 70-day infectious period is the longest ever seen
in an asymptomatic patient. Researchers believe it was because
her weakened immune system was unable to mount a defense
against the virus. A June
study of
immunosuppressed patients with the virus found that they shed viral
particles for an average of 28.4 days.
-
The CDC
reported earlier this week that 9% of hospitalized coronavirus
patients were readmitted within two months of being discharged.
Risk factors for readmission included age ≥65 years, presence of certain
chronic conditions, hospitalization within the 3 months preceding the first
COVID-19 hospitalization, and discharge to a skilled nursing facility or
with home health care.
- As usual, I am showing statistics from two dashboards/data portals:
Florida's Dept. of Health (DOH) statistics and Florida's COVID Action statistics (both developed by Rebekah Jones).
(Click on images
to enlarge them.)
However,
their accuracy may be off since testing is down and there were reporting
issues, but you still should be able to see the trends.
 Per
the
Florida
Department of Health's dashboard*
as of Friday,
November 13th,
the state now has
858,585 residents testing positive
for COVID-19, with
51,542 hospitalized, and
17,445 deaths.**
As you can see, the number of cases are on the rise again.
The breakdown
of confirmed cases in our tri-county area is:
- Sumter
County:
3,140 cases (3,123 residents, 17 non-residents), 301 hospitalizations,
with 89 deaths
(median age now: 56, 57% males, 43% females)
- Lake
County:
9,466 cases (9,397 residents, 69 non-residents), 767 hospitalizations
(13 non-residents), with 242 deaths (median age now: 44, 46% males, 52% females)
-
Marion
County:
11,600 cases
(11,571 residents),
1,111 hospitalizations (2 non-residents), with 362 deaths
(median age
still: 43, 41% males, 59% females)
* The new data includes the number of test results the department
receives from the counties, along with additional demographics and
graphs that show hospital admissions for patients complaining of
cough, fever or shortness of breath.
Previously, that data was only provided for larger counties.
Still not included is how many infected people have
recovered from the virus and, unlike other states, Florida does not report
"probable" deaths
from the virus.
** The newest reported deaths are the latest logged into the DOH
system, and that process could take as long as two weeks or longer
before they show up.
|

Per
the
Florida's
COVID Action
dashboard
as of Friday,
November 13th,
the state now has
951,012 residents testing positive
(6,933
cases today, 38,088 cases this past week,
13,611 K-12 pediatric/staff cases this week);
with 2,349
requiring hospitalization;
and 17,659
deaths (74 deaths today, 435 deaths this past week).
The breakdown of confirmed cases in our tri-county area is:
- Sumter
County:
3,349 cases (26 cases today, 92 this
week), 75 K-12 Pediatric cases (59 students/16 staff),
17 hospitalizations this week, and 89 deaths
(0 deaths today,
1 this
week).
Lake
County:
9,986 cases (42 cases today, 373 this week), 847 K-12
Pediatric cases (139 students/83 staff), 2,564 hospitalizations
this week, and
244 deaths (1 death today,
6 this week).
- Marion
County:
11,944 cases (92 cases today, 394 this week), 885 K-12
Pediatric cases (175 students/73 staff), 40 hospitalizations this
week, and 362 deaths
(0 deaths today,
7 this week).
None of these counties meet the criteria for the next phase of
reopening. |
Friday, November 6th
- New coronavirus
cases in the U.S. reached staggering highs this week, the
second week in a row of record-breaking increases.
Hospitalizations rose
quickly, too. On Wednesday, the country recorded more than 100,000 cases in
a single day. By Thursday, cases jumped even higher to more than 121,000 in one day.
On average, new U.S. cases are now up 55% over two weeks ago. Although there's been
a modest increase in testing, not enough to explain how fast cases have
increased in this recent surge. And positivity rates are high in many states,
which
indicates there are more infections in the community than are captured
by testing.
- The virus is rapidly spreading throughout the
country,
but it's been reported that
some of the worst hit regions still resist wearing masks. After touring
North Dakota, which has the highest covid-19 death rate in the U.S., White
House coronavirus task force coordinator, Deborah Birx, observed that Masks
are not being worn in grocery stores, restaurants, and hotels. Meanwhile, an analysis of cases in Tennessee
by Vanderbilt University found
that regions without mask mandates also have the highest rates of
hospitalization for covid-19.
- Psychology
Today had an interesting article about
the psychology behind people who do not wear face coverings during the
pandemic. It basically boils down to five categories of people. 1) Impotent personalities just don’t care about other people or what
happens to them. Their only concern is what they want or don't want to do,
and think it's too much trouble to wear one. 2) Magical thinking
people follow an illogical approach, irrespective of the reality of
circumstances. Their thinking is that they've been in self-quarantine for
four months,
they're
tired of it, they want their life back to normal, before COVID-19. 3)
Lack of knowledge people don't have any scientific and medical
understanding of COVID-19 transmission. If they can’t see it, it must not be
there. They have no appreciation of contagion or how viruses spread.
4) People that are Inexperienced with illness or death are usually
younger adults who have grown up with vaccinations for polio, measles,
mumps, etc. They have no experience with the military draft or people close
to them dying in war so they don't fear illness or death. 5) Our politics and history predisposes us to not liking others telling us what
to do. Some believe wearing a mask infringes their personal rights, failing
to consider whether it makes sense in the middle of a pandemic.
- According to Dr. José Romero,
head
of the committee that develops evidence-based immunization guidelines for
the CDC, told NPR (National Public Radio) that
health care workers will get the first doses of COVID-19 vaccine in the
U.S. when one is approved.
That's a decision based on the science of what will quell the pandemic
fastest. "It's not just the doctors and nurses that are interacting with
patients, but also the support personnel that help, which could include those
who are
delivering food or maintenance people, as well.
-
A
new U.S. CDC study
has concluded that
Delaware’s stay-at-home order and face mask mandate
helped reduce coronavirus infections, hospitalizations and deaths, with an
82% reduction in Covid-19 incidence and an 88% reduction in
hospitalizations. However, there were several barriers to the state's
contract tracing efforts that could have prevented the virus from spreading
even further early in the pandemic.
Among the more than 9,700 laboratory-confirmed cases reported between
March
11th and June 25th, nearly two-thirds of the patients were interviewed, but
83% either refused to name contacts or couldn't recall contacts.
"Early
detection, self-isolation, and investigation of COVID-19 cases and
self-quarantine of close contacts can be effective in preventing community
transmission,
if
contacts are identified and reached soon after exposure," the study said.
Polk County, Iowa
- As usual, I am showing statistics from two dashboards/data portals:
Florida's Dept. of Health (DOH) statistics and Florida's COVID Action statistics (both developed by Rebekah Jones).
(Click on images
to enlarge them.)
However,
their accuracy may be off since testing is down and there were reporting
issues, but you still should be able to see the trends.
 Per
the
Florida
Department of Health's dashboard*
as of Friday,
November 6th,
the state now has
816,376 residents testing positive
for COVID-19, with
50,077 hospitalized, and
16,961 deaths.**
As you can see, the number of cases are on the rise again.
The breakdown
of confirmed cases in our tri-county area is:
- Sumter
County:
3,047 cases (3,034 residents), 298 hospitalizations,
with 88 deaths
(median age still: 55, 57% males, 43% females)
-
Lake
County:
9,103 cases (9,038 residents), 750 hospitalizations
(11 non-residents), with 236 deaths
(median age now: 43, 46% males, 52% females)
- Marion
County:
11,205 cases
(11,179 residents),
1,088 hospitalizations (1 non-resident), with 355 deaths
(median age
still: 43, 41% males, 59% females)
* The new data includes the number of test results the department
receives from the counties, along with additional demographics and
graphs that show hospital admissions for patients complaining of
cough, fever or shortness of breath.
Previously, that data was only provided for larger counties.
Still not included is how many infected people have
recovered from the virus and, unlike other states, Florida does not report
"probable" deaths
from the virus.
** The newest reported deaths are the latest logged into the DOH
system, and that process could take as long as two weeks or longer
before they show up.
|

Per
the
Florida's
COVID Action
dashboard
as of Friday,
November
6th,
the state now has
913,085 residents testing positive
(5,245
cases today, 32,567 cases this past week,
72,336 K-12 pediatric/staff cases this week);
with 2,349
requiring hospitalization;
and 17,224
deaths (54 deaths today, 297 deaths this past week).
The breakdown of confirmed cases in our tri-county area is:
- Sumter
County:
3,256 cases this past week (21 cases today, 118 cases this
week), 146 K-12
Pediatric cases, 2,564 hospitalizations, and 88 deaths
(1 death today,
2 this
week).
Lake
County:
9,623 cases (56 cases today, 448 cases this week), 814 K-12
Pediatric cases, 2,564 hospitalizations, and
232 deaths (0 deaths today,
8 this week).
- Marion
County:
11,549 cases (45 cases today, 304 cases this week), 848
K-12 Pediatric cases,
2,564 hospitalizations, and 355 deaths
(3 deaths today,
8 this week).
None of these counties meet the criteria for the next phase of
reopening. |
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