What's Your County COVID-19 Rate?

[Valkorado]

As of today.  Gunnison County is among the worst in the nation, per capita.

[fudgie]

Huntington Co. Ind. 3 but only 2 has been reported. Its good to be on the front lines. 

[Valkorado]

First town I know of doing this, and it's my hometown.   Actually a good idea because our town has a large saturation of cases, but it seems like doing the job could be both dangerous and grotesque.  

Gunnison County to test its sewage to track the coronavirus.
County officials said testing the water would help them understand the magnitude of the virus over time.

https://www.9news.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/testing-sewage-coronavirus-gunnison-county/73-263f5954-10da-474a-93ff-83564efd97dc

https://boingboing.net/2020/04/04/sewage-could-reveal-true-scope.html

https://www.biobot.io/covid19

I do not recall ever hearing about them sifting through and testing the county kak looking for the seasonal influenza virus.   Just sayin'.

Also, just today.   "Visitors" risk 18 months in jail, $5000 fine.

https://www.9news.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/gunnison-county-colorado-no-visitors-covid-19-pandemic/73-2ee6a505-a2bf-4623-9e3c-38168c690e8d

Texan homeowners are pissed off.

https://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/coronavirus/texas-ag-gunnison-countys-ban-of-non-residents-during-coronavirus-outbreak-is-unconstitutional

No peak til May at the earliest

https://www.denverpost.com/2020/04/09/coronavirus-covid-colorado-peak-ventilators/

Lost another who "fit"  in our community.

https://www.gunnisontimes.com/content/%E2%80%98brother%E2%80%99-many-bob-teitler-succumbs-coronavirus

[Willow]

3rd death in my county (Wyandotte) just announced. Ks 172 cases, Wyandotte is of course #2 (right behind Johnson County - where Willow lives).

Wyandotte County (where scooperhsd lives) has overtaken Johnson County (where I live) to become #1 in Kansas.  Kansas has a little over 1100 cases, 296 in Wyandotte and 262 in Johnson County.  Johnson County's population is 3.5 time that of Wyandotte.

The viral infections are not evenly distributed and sometimes mysterious to figure out why it spreads as it does.

Chances of being one of the diagnosed cases in Wyandotte County are 0.179%.  That's odds of less than 2 in a thousand.  In my county the odds are 0.044%.

Wyandotte County has a larger low income population.  I think that follows the pattern we've been shown.  Maybe not.  Who knows what's real?

[scooperhsd]

There's no denying the larger low income population in Wyandotte. It seems that one of the drivers is also high population density nursing homes. I would not want to be in one with COVID-19 out there right now, with what we know at the present time. It seems to spread like wildfire in nursing homes.

[carolinarider09]

My county in South Carolina (Newberry)  13

However the interesting part is they are estimating the number of cases as being  93.

Here are some other statistics from my state for 2020.

Number of confirmed cases of the Flu in SC 6,635

Number of confirmed cases of Corona-19 in SC 3,065

Number of deaths from the Flu in SC  115

Number of deaths from Corona-19 in SC  80

All this date comes from the following websites if you would like to take the time for verify the figures.

https://www.dhec.sc.gov/sites/default/files/media/document/COVID19_Zip_Code_Analysis_Public-04.10.2020.pdf

https://www.scdhec.gov/health/flu/flu-watch-data-reports-maps

[Patrick]

Our county if Florida [ Pinellas] is quite high while our counties [ Ontario and Yates]in NYS are very low [ there were none last week but now have about 10 cases]

[cookiedough]

I did some calculations in WI at least and I think was like for all infected as compared to the deaths associated with having it were anywhere between 2 and 4% death rate.   Still,  say 3-4 deaths out of every 100 who have this virus are better than winning the lottery.        Odds I do not want to partake in.

My boss and me got into it a little last week me asking to bring home the necessary 'according to her confidential files' that MUST stay in the office so are forcing me to work in the office starting Monday thru end of May by myself thinking I can do 3 full time jobs.  What I should have told her is go ask HR and her supervisors if not being able to work from home going against WI orders bring files home with me is worth the risk of dying going into the office with a few of us being in as well?     MY wife does very similar job as mine in treasury dept. and she has a copy paper box AT HOME of confidential files.  She did not even ask just took them home yet my boss is a _itch!

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6 cases in Rabun County, N.E.GA.