[blueash]

Originally Posted by Velvet

Testing rate doesn’t influence death rate. Dead is dead.

In one important way, testing is important. While dead is dead, determining the cause of death is important, obviously, to ascertain the extent of disease and its lethality.

In NY they are now recording as COVID deaths all cases where the MD or coroner includes COVID on the death certificate as proven or if in the judgement of the person, probable. This captures not just test positive deaths.

However this is not how every location or state is reporting their deaths. AFAIK Florida is only reporting test positive deaths as COVID. So if you die at home, untested, or a nursing home, untested, or in a hospital not yet tested and you have COVID symptoms but not proven, you are not a COVID death. While now there is an effort to test every employee in nursing homes, this is new. And it does not include patients.

So dead is not simply dead when you are discussing COVID deaths.

[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Gov. DeSantis on how Florida went from high risk to flattening the curve - YouTube

[meme5x]

If people would stay a safe distance, wear a mask and wash their hands we’d get through this easier.... no gatherings

[Dreah]

That's because Gov.Cuomo knows what he's doing.

[yankygrl]

as a group we are social people . Isolation is not good for anyone - leads to several other issues physical and mental. I'd love to see statistics on suicide rate right now. You can follow all the guidelines and still be social lessening the loneliness.

[72lions]

Originally Posted by Rsenholzi

Really? I think it’s because we can’t get tested like they are doing in NY. Testing here in the Villages was open for about 10 days and then they closed for lack of testing supplies. Most tested were for research not because people thought they had it. Most of those were turned away. I believe only about 900 were test in an area with 160,000 homes. Then they finally opened again for 2 days only? I believe our numbers are low not because people are wiser here but because of lack of testing.

160,000 homes? There aren’t even 160000 people

[ONTAP15]

The squeaky wheel was losing 800 souls a day. The squeaky wheel continues to lose 500 of it's citizens a day..