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Originally Posted by DecaturFargo
Not sure what figures you're looking at but our numbers are still going up, not down. What's your hurry?
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Another day with no new COVID-19 cases in The Villages. 70 in Sumter County portion, 7 in Lake County portion, 1 in Marion County portion.
Not a single new case so far this month.
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The cases by city and county begin on page 6, listed in order by number of cases, so you have to scroll a ways to find The Villages.
A big part of the rationale for the lockdown/stay-at-home was that estimates of cases (e.g., Cuomo, 200,000+ in NY) was taken to mean that a like number of hospital beds and ventilators would be required. Thankfully, that turned out not to be true. In Florida, of 39,514 cases to date, 7,171 (18%) required hospitalization. 1,721 deceased (4.4%). Same source as above.
At the same time, there is considerable evidence of deteriorating health in other areas, which provides a strong rationale for reopening in an intelligent way. This includes, as I have posted in the Health Forum, young children not keeping wellness appointments (20 to 30% of normal) thus forgoing vaccinations for potentially fatal childhood diseases; emergency room visits occurring at 40 to 50% of normal, including for heart attacks which normally increase when there is an increase in respiratory illness; opiod deaths increasing; cancer patients unable to get elective surgery (thankfully this last seems to be ending as states relax their rules). Sources for these statements as posted in the Health Forum
The nation is paying a dire cost for the lockdown orders. It is now time for those who are most vulnerable to continue to shelter in place while the rest of the country returns to normal.