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| Texas sees highest 7-day coronavirus positivity rate: ER doctor says 'we're not seeing signs' of surge ending | |||
| 2020-08-11 | |||
| [FoxNews] As the U.S. surpasses 5 million coronavirus cases, awaits a vaccine and debates sending kids back to schools, Texas emergency room physician Dr. Natasha Kathuria told "Fox & Friends" her state might see another surge in cases. With the Lone Star State recording its highest seven-day positivity rate since the pandemic began, the Austin-based doctor says hospitals are at about 80 percent capacity in the big cities as Texas surpasses 500,000 positive cases and more than 8,800 deaths, the Houston Chronicle reports. "We've seen this wave hit Texas pretty hard, and we're holding steady right now. We've seen a slow decrease in hospitalizations, but our death counts are still up there," Kathuria, Global Outreach Doctors board member, told co-host Ainsley Earhardt. Earhardt asked about reopening schools in the fall as a new report found more than 97,000 children tested positive for COVID-19 in the last two weeks of July. "I can guarantee that number is actually much higher," Kathuria said of cases in youth. "We don't really test kids that often. They're usually asymptomatic, they have very mild symptoms, but they're still shedding this virus, so that is going to artificially be low no matter how good we are about testing right now." But the doctor is worried that sending kids to schools and sending them home could affect parents and grandparents who go to work and travel, which could worsen the spread. As health officials prepare for a vaccine, Kathuria said, "our biggest concern is 'are people actually going to get the vaccine?'" Instead of just focusing on a vaccine, she believes the focus should be on prevention. "We have the PCR test,
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| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #7 Check along the border areas of Texas , large numbers colonizers with various disease coming across. Time of the twin fences with mine fields inbetween. |
| Posted by: Thaith Elmeresing6163 2020-08-11 21:25 |
| #6 Infection 'Hot Spots' centered on the protest sites, ya reckon? CHAD is in my box of secondary evidence. So far, there isn't a mass exodus from a plague ward. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-08-11 15:50 |
| #5 For the last 84 days, new cases per Worldometer average 42k, or 3.56 million new cases. In that same period, the number of "serious/critical' runs between 16k and 18k - virtually flat. A little less than 1,000 per day (average) expire. I didn't track the 'recovered', which I suppose is those discharged from the hospital. So I conclude that of the new cases each day, about 1-2,000 got into 'serious/critical' and about 1,000 of the serious/critical' expire, and the other thousand or so - recover. Or - of the 42,000 new cases per day, around 40,000 do not go to the hospital. That's 95%, which is consistent with other reports from more learned folks. |
| Posted by: Bobby 2020-08-11 14:51 |
| #4 Infection 'Hot Spots' centered on the protest sites, ya reckon? |
| Posted by: magpie 2020-08-11 12:26 |
| #3 Any children actually in hospital who haven't already got pre-existing conditions or found that out? For the under 80s it's irrelevant as a risk. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2020-08-11 10:01 |
| #2 "Oh, you test positive. That's worth $100,000.00..." |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2020-08-11 07:02 |
| #1 Hospitalization numbers matching positive testing results? |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2020-08-11 06:42 |