Lake County, IL -- (North of Cook Co./Chicago) Pop. 696,500.

Cases 9,021 (1734 in nursing homes)

Deaths 340 (234 in nursing homes)

My Town Pop. 19,000

Cases 110 - 114

Deaths not posted. There is a hospital. There are several retirement/nursing hones. This town is less hard hit than nearby suburbs with more minority populations.

I'd like to know a baseline for affected nursing homes. To what extent are these deaths excessive of 'the norm'? What are the intake numbers of Covid/non-Covid patients?

" State--FOR NO GOOD REASON--out "

Cap letters are the written equivalent of shouting.

Shouting doesn't make what you say sensible.

2,057,468 county population

7,120 confirmed cases

191 deaths

Not certain who decided but on the governor's fb page he mentioned that nursing home deaths would not be included in the health department count in April. It is known that there are several nursing homes in the area have been affected via my city's mayor and the newspaper.

I look at this site although most states do not continually update. If your state has the name highlighted and underlined the country by county numbers will be shown in you click on the name of the state. They have added "Yesterday" and "Two days ago". If you click on those it will show the individual count for those days. Expect the numbers to be higher after about 6pm each day. https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

My county:

Pop. 95,000

89 cases

1 death

57 recovered

They're counting confirmed cases, and also probable cases (those who were exposed to someone who was confirmed to have Covid-19 and show symptoms). The latter doesn't make sense to me. A 15-minute test would confirm whether or not they have the disease, so why weren't tested before being counted as a "case" ?

Rounded greatly (and our county is metropolitan)

1.25M

Exact number of cases today

7185

Exact number of deaths today

80

County population. 8,000

cases. 52 (48 in nursing home)

deaths. 8

recoveries. 44

active cases....0

woodrose someone who is sick especially very sick could violently object to having a stick with a swab stuck up their nose. If a test is taken depending on where it is processed it may take a week or more likely more than that for the results to return.

Edited to add that while there are 15 minute tests most people do not have access to them.

I live in Massachusetts which is #5 for coronavirus cases, and 3rd for deaths per the chart Maifleur linked. I live on outer Cape Cod, largely encompassed by National Seashore. The entire Cape is Barnstable County which has had 1489 cases and 130 deaths. We are in the first part of phase 2 reopening, but our governor is being very cautious. In the summer, the population in Barnstable county swells from around 215,00 to over 500,00. But on the outer Cape, population increases almost 1000 percent. As an example, in our town, only 40% of the properties are year round residences,

People coming to Massachusetts from out of state are being asked to bring what they need to self-quarantine for 14 days. As of a week ago, short term rentals were being allowed. We don't expect that tourists who rent a vacation home are going to self-quarantine.

My morning newspaper quoted someone who has the numbers, indicating that 40% of all deaths in Florida are from long-term-care facilities.

Woodrose, it is because any of this type of test (for example, the flu rapid swab) are known to have a certain number of "false negatives". Therefore, even with a negative test, if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck.....

maifleur03 , the 15-minute tests are available here in our small town, and in a much smaller town in this county ,as well, so I would think they would be available in most places.

raee_gw zone 5b-6a Ohio, I still say they should have been tested, even if it was a 24-hour test before being counted as a "case". It doesn't matter if they showing symptoms, if their symptoms aren't severe it could be something else. Also, what about those who were exposed to someone who tested positive, but have no symptoms themselves ? Shouldn't they be counted too, since they could have it and be asymptomatic ?

I've heard that the reason the number of cases has risen so much is not only because of more testing, but also people having antibodies present showing they had the disease while being asymptomatic.

Rural PA county of 15,000, with 126 confirmed cases and 9 deaths. I know several people who were sick but unable to get tested, so I assume there have been unconfirmed cases. I don't know what the testing situation is right now. Close neighboring county is larger, but I don't know the population. They have 1,608 cases and 197 deaths.

The ones that are being done in connection with the state health department are not the 15 minute ones. Antibodies do not show up in your nose but in your blood.

Woodrose, the "presumptives" being counted likely have been tested if testing is available - but if they are seriously ill with what is very likely covid, and other causes have been ruled out, they can be counted (and treated) as presumptive even with a negative test - just the same way that someone very sick with symptoms of pneumococcal pneumonia would be. And that is why they are called "presumed" instead of "confirmed". Mildly ill people with a negative test wouldn't be counted because the evidence of it being Covid and not something else wouldn't be strong enough.

And no, people with exposure but no symptoms wouldn't/shouldn't be counted, unless or until they have a positive test. The "presumptive" category is only used for the significantly ill.

Our county is now requiring masks when out in public starting Saturday.

Today's report for Wisconsin: Milwaukee, Racine, Kenosha, and Dane counties are the hardest hit. These counties also have the most dense population in the state.

We'll see what happens in a few days. Pence came to Waukesha county tonight for a Republican Party Rally. I doubt there were many masks or safe distancing there. It'll depend on how many showed up.

https://projects.jsonline.com/topics/coronavirus/tracking/covid-19-cases-testing-and-deaths-in-wisconsin.html?for-guid=103d06dd-36d9-426b-affa-df5daf6b2a15&utm_source=jsonline-Coronavirus%20Watch&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=baseline_greeting&utm_term=newsletter_greeting

SW PA

We are the second most populated county in the state, but 9th in deaths and 11th in infected. The eastern part of the state is most of the deaths and infections.

They are not very generous with figures. We don't get recovered or how many are nursing homes and positive antibodies tests are also lumped in infected. If your tested positive several times till deemed virus free, each test is counted as infected. Ya, so much for accuracy.

As of today my county.

2122 positive or possible

177 deaths positive or possible from covid

109 of those deaths are nursing home as May 13. I couldn't find any current #. So it is probably higher.

Currently doing pretty terrible here in Harris County:

New:

@TXMedCenter

ICUs have topped 100% of base capacity for the first time during the pandemic and entered "Phase 2," the process of allocating additional staff/equipment to turn 'normal' beds into intensive care beds as capacity reaches 102%: https://www.tmc.edu/coronavirus-updates/overview-of-tmc-icu-bed-capacity-and-occupancy/

Twitter thread with an article and some charts:

https://twitter.com/mmorris011/status/1278380613788217345

But wait, there's more!

BREAKING: Texas set a daily record with 8,076 new COVID-19 cases reported today. That's 1,101 more cases than yesterday.

Oh, ghostlyvision, I'm so sorry to hear that.

My county isn't doing much to prevent it. Only one death supposedly and it was #3 in the state. No way to know if people who died in the past few months were covid 19 related but I think people here aren't getting tested. They don't wear masks. Surrounding counties have a lot more cases and deaths. No one enforcing mask wearing by companies either.

9th largest in State: 162,320 population

As of June 29:

Coronavirus cases: 853

Deaths: 23

Recovered: 652

Tested Negative: 15,064

We were coming in extremely low for the size of the County, but now

Cases are on the rise due to limited openings last week...heaviest

among 21-29 year ages. Due to bar and other establishment openings. Masks must

be worn in State Capital County..but so far, only in business places where

the owners mandate it in this County. Forecast is for the count to get much worse.

Of course, it is. Much of the good done by masks and staying home, now

going to be erased.

Update?

We're failing. Hand over first failing. We were averaging mid80 cases nightly. Last night was 343. The day before, they reported two days' worth. It was 457. Even if you divide it by two, that's still 228 per day. Nowhere near 80 anything.

We're continuing to do well in our county, but cases are rising in the state (PA). Today our governor mandated masks statewide for anyone leaving their house, unless you're going to be at least 6 feet away from others when you're outdoors.

Don't know the various levels for areas or country, but in Canada they're reporting that about 80% of diagnosed deaths are in long term care facilities.

ole joyful

Zero again this week👏🏻👏🏻 Our local health officials along with county commissioners decide if masks are required....and they aren’t.

matthias_lang: Yeah, it's not fun, and now news that the U.S. has crossed the 50,00 positive cases in a day level, we're going so far in the wrong direction.

At least the governor here finally allowed the localities the authority to require businesses make masks mandatory of its patrons, and did close bars and seating in restaurants, but we still have the 6000+ Texas Repub. convention coming up, and so far it's still on. The end of this is nowhere in sight.

Missouri is apparently not reporting all of the positives. The governor admitted that there was a problem in the SW part of the state and that is where the National Guard is doing the testing. However the number of cases from that section of the state has been very low. Less than 100 for the counties other than Greene which is where the majority of the people in that area are sent for care. Greene is listed as having just under 300 but they have been above 250 for several weeks.

I had to go to the grocery today. The store had people at the entrances turning away people without masked. I asked the person if they had any problems and was told a lot of cussing but that was it. I saw more people with masks today than I have.

Orange County, California. Cases have increased from 10,737 to 14,413 in the last week! That means about 25% of all cases were reported in one week.

Paper today says for the first time since early March, there were no new cases of Covid in our town -- yay us!!

Oklahoma County as of 7/2/20:

CONFIRMED CASES: 3,029

+25.6% Since last week

DEATHS: 70

+2.9% Since last week

Going back to my original post:

We are now at 451 cases and still only 6 deaths. There are three 55+ communities in the county where I live. Evidently most of us old farts are staying home.

Lina Hidalgo (Harris Co. judge) still wants Abbott's permission to issue a mandatory stay at home order for Harris Co. but Abbott isn't budging. Yet, anyway.

We're going back a Phase. That's how poorly it's going.

As of June 28th, Houston's covid-19 positivity rate is a whopping 24.82% - that's 1 in 4 being tested have the virus. In a city of +2 million, a county of +4 million.

131 cases, 3 dead, a dozen hospitalized, county of 50,000. Gov. Abbott has finally ordered mandatory masks in public for all TX counties with more than 20 active cases. Too little, too late for many counties.

I think we are headed for more cases , especially after seeing this today.

Mackinac Bridge

Cases are rising alarmingly in Los Angeles County, but particularly so in the industrial areas that have meat warehouses.

In Riverside County (Palm Springs, Cathedral City, etc.), cases are higher in the areas with larger Hispanic populations. This is one of the reasons I am going to Rancho Mirage to shop for groceries instead of the closer Latin markets that I would normally go to. I am trying to avoid children, as they do not wear masks and do not understand the dangers that are present, especially to older people. The higher end markets in Rancho Mirage and Palm Desert generally have no children in them, and it is much easier to practice social distancing.

marylmi, It looks like people are going north on that bridge. My brother and I went to St. Ignace last summer and took that bridge, but it looked nothing like that.

Something that each of you need to look at beyond the number of infected or dead is the number of active cases. Those are the ones that are still sick. Sometimes you must use a little math but some reports list the number. If a person has tested positive, not died, and not recovered they are still sick. The current figure on one of the sites I look at is 1,511,690.

Lars, yes they are heading north for the weekend. Downstate ( AnnArbor, Detroit) has already shut down bars and other places again as we are starting to see more cases there. Up here in northern Michigan and in the UP , it's been pretty good but seeing all these down staters coming north makes me really nervous.

Lars, I hope you went over to the island and the Grand Hotel!

Still on an upward curve here. 473 new cases today.

Mary, yes we did go to the island for the day, and we enjoyed that very much. There's not all that much to do in St. Ignace anyway, except to take the ferry to the island, although we did enjoy St. Ignace as well, especially the shopping and restaurants. We did not go to the Grand Hotel, but we toured the island on horse carriages, and that was very nice. Of course we saw the Grand Hotel from a distance, on land and from the ferry.

From St. Ignace we drove to Sault Ste. Marie and had a good time there as well. We would have gone to the Canadian side, but my brother did not bring his passport with him - I always carry mine, not matter what.

I'm very glad we went to Michigan last year, as I would not want to be traveling this year - I am avoiding all airports and am only taking road trips at this time.

The county I live in has one more positive, after many days (weeks?) of none. I don't really believe it, though. I think there's a lot more.

Somewhere I read a couple of months ago that for ever person who tests positive there are 20 that are never tested. Either they think they have a cold and it seems to clear up or they have nothing so I think Kathsgrdn you are probably correct.

Los Angeles County is not doing well. Masks in public now required, fines to those who go without, up to $300. I wonder how that will work 4th of July. Beaches are closed.

My county this week 6/28/20 has

52 new confirmed

30 recovered

1 death

The state of Oklahoma as a whole:

14, 359 New up 355

8,507 recovered

375 deaths

My county is still doing OK--about twice as many cases reported as when I last commented on this thread. That's too many for my comfort! My family is still operating as if on lockdown, but DD is working, and son-on-law goes back to work (with the public) next week. About the only public places I go are to the grocery store and post office, but so many people here don't wear masks.

I found that the spike in the county in which my son lives was due to an outbreak in a processing plant--the last report I saw was 250 cases, and they weren't planning to shut down. DS says he doesn't know anyone who works there.

Cases statewide are on the rise. Daily case count had been down in the mid 300's, but over 1000 for each of the last couple of days (according to ODoH dashboard).

My heart breaks for our country.