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Originally Posted by PugMom (Post 1855052)

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Day after day, after day. Attacks on others. Accuse each other.

Then, always, blame those who report all of it, ignoring and applauding those in the middle of it all.

You would think the entire country would applaud any action to slow down the virus, etc.

We used to divide on health care, or economics, etc.

Now we ignore whatever the issue and simply widen the divide by simply attacking those we are told are the "other side". And we are doing it more openly and more mean spirited than ever before in history.

Families of those suffering must be heart broken, at best, as how fellow Americans respond to this challenge. Our country looks weak and uninformed, and most importantly deaf to anyone other than those who agree with us.

I doubt that. Do you have a reference? Assuming I interpreted the CDC data correctly, it appears that recently the hospitalization rate is about 2%. A rate of 20% may be true for those over 65 but not for young people. The COVID-19 statistics vary greatly with age. Perhaps you are referring to people who have serious symptoms? The vast majority are either asymptomatic or have minor symptoms. According to the Florida COVID-19 dashboard, the hospitalization rate is about 6% (for Florida).

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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr (Post 1855055)

I think that the poster may have been referring to the long term effects of being placed on a ventilator.

Roughly 20% of Covid-19 patients require hospitalization but only about 5% require a ventilator. Being placed on a ventilator had been a death sentence for many patients and those that survived did experience long term issues.

However, an increasing number of those placed on a ventilator are surviving and with fewer long term effects than previous numbers. Perhaps the health care professionals are learning to use ventilators in a better way.

The original question was why does the Village Newspaper bury the local statistics that are related to the number and spread of the Covid-19 virus?? Moving the data from Page 1 to hard to find on Section A8 is clearly an attempt to "hide the numbers". Again this is a fact and not open to being arguable! A bunch of the responses to this question have nothing to do with the question. Even to the point that some try to make a joke out of a very scary desease. Again..why do you believe the data is being downplayed to the public?
Please stay on the subject. :ho:

It's find "Waldo" time. Can anyone find the Covid-19 numbers in the Daily Sun today? If so
you win the "Find Waldo" challenge.:a040:

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Originally Posted by PennBF (Post 1855081)

On the top of my computer screen, way up there where it says https://www.talkofthevillages..etc? You just type in the word "Coronavirus" or the word "Covid-19.

That is how we get right up to the minute numbers of deaths and new cases. We can see them by the State of Florida, or by the county or the country.

Right now the country is up and Sumter County doesn't seem to be increasing and Florida isn't rising at this time.

Just type in Coronavirus up there and BINGO. You don't have to get mad at The Daily Sun. Maybe they know this trick too and figure everyone knows it and don't put numbers on the front page. Maybe too because at this time Sumter County and Florida do not seem to be in an uptick. I really expected the numbers to rise here in Sumter because of the rally ten days ago.

I think that people are finding that they can stay safe with FAR fewer restrictions on their personal freedoms. The Coronavirus death numbers were inflated and overblown.

we have been @ this EIGHT MONTHS? how much longer are we willing to let this go on, & how long is too long? will we simply give in & accept whatever is fed thru the media or are we going to make our own decisions as responsible adults?