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As New York’s virus numbers keep dropping…Other state’s climb…

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The figures for NY deaths where 100+ less on Friday…

Hospital and ICU numbers also continue to drop as hospital’s seem to be moving to the point that they aren’t ‘maxed’ out…

But reports around the country point to increases in virus cases as some governor’s move to relax virus restrictions….

Number are bound to bounce up and down coming out of the weekend as has happened every weekend…

But New York and New York City ARE continuing to see less reported virus cases and deaths…

Things just could come to New York NOT wanting people come to it to keep their numbers low?

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) said during a press briefing on Saturday that COVID-19 hospitalizations are “starting to descend” while also calling for more testing throughout the state.

The governor cited models depicting a decline in hospitalizations and ICU admissions related to the illness for the past three days, adding that medical facilities are no longer reporting that they are at “max capacity.”

Cuomo also highlighted that the rates of intubation – the process of placing COVID-19 patients on breathing ventilators – are down, too.

“The probability is about 80 percent that you won’t come off a ventilator after you [are] put one on,” Cuomo said, calling the descending rates “good news.”

He added that the state is still reporting 2,000 new COVID-19 hospitalizations daily, saying the situation is “sobering” as 540 more New Yorkers lost their lives to the virus on Friday….

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Nate Silver
@NateSilver538
Last two days of reporting in New York have seen “only” 32% and 30% of tests come up positive. That’s still a lot but considerably down from a peak of 50% on March 31. covid19tracker.health.ny.gov/views/NYS-COVI
Things are different across the ‘Red’ states of America…
Trump and red state governors for weeks have fairly bragged about how large parts of the farm belt have escaped the ravages of the virus without the enforced shelter-in-place policies common on both coasts. It’s still unclear whether the states actually “flattened the curve,” or if the virus just reached there later. But now, cases are erupting, threatening a local population that doesn’t always have easy access to the same health care as more urban areas. And the outbreaks are striking the heart of the nation’s farming and meatpacking industry, potentially disrupting the national distribution of food as meat processing plants close down and truckers who move food across the country are sidelined by illness…

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New York’s pre-virus death numbers where in the 150 to 200 range per day….

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  1. Nate Silver
    @NateSilver538
    Note though that some of the positive news of late has been driven by NY/NJ/CT, which does seem to have turned some kind of corner. It’s possible we could get a bimodal peak if NY/NJ/CT decline while the numbers elsewhere worsen.

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    (((Howard Forman)))
    @thehowie
    Need more days/data. BUT, I am NOT optimistic that we have plateaued as country. Clearly NYS/NJ/MA dominate overall picture. When you strip them out (& my interposed state of CT), & note increasing domination of GA, IL, TX, OH, PA etc, a different pattern MAY be emerging.

  2. I think that NY /NJ peaked several weeks ago…..

    The problem now is as they come down in cases?

    Other states that did NOT do restrictions as soon will increase infections…

    The Red states’s maybe making YUGE mistake by not waiting at least two weeks longer for more stringent restrictions …

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