Covid 11/24/20

Covid19mathblog.com

Lots of scare and misinformation surround covid-19 – the good thing there are sound minds that understand it takes time to really understand a problem. This study concluded the heart issue with covid has been more of a function of baseline comorbidities than the virus impact itself. I hope the vaccine does not stop the resolve for getting well as just as many deaths could be prevented if as a society we became healthier.

https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.120.050543

“Conclusions: Myocardial injury in severe COVID-19 is a function of baseline comorbidities, advanced age and multisystem organ dysfunction similar to traditional ARDS. The adverse prognosis of myocardial injury in COVID-19 relates largely to multisystem organ involvement and critical illness”

Schools are shutting down with the increase covid counts. Perhaps schools would reduce the spread? Perhaps school causing the spreads? Both are not supported by the data at least to a large amount. The data shows there are means to implement school opening in this environment and certain school districts are exemplary – and unfortunately there are school district which have done miserably.

Texas – Fort Bend county and Travis County have done an outstanding job given being fully open and limiting confirmations and death.

FL – Broward opening and increase confirmation is very unfortunate. Pinellas has been open the entire time and is doing well.

Mahoning OH is shutting school down due to increase confirmation – but Lorain has the same view and they have been shut down the whole time

Dauphin PA school opening was delayed over 70 days but the confirmations was rising before school opening.

No deaths above 1K worldwide. US continues with astonishing confirmations – 169K

There are signs US and Europe are flattening out.

Leading the pack in confirmation – CA. FL leads death at 94

Once again it is the Cook, IL being in the top 3 in both confirmation and deaths. LA tops confirmation at over 6K

IL and CA have both performed very poorly – all their policies/recommendations have failed. To blame it on federal govt is a big cop out. TX excuse can be seen in the border counties.