St. Anne is in Bryan County. Savannah is Chatham County.
As of 3 p.m., July 15th, there have been 6,009 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in residents of the Coastal Health District and 61 deaths since statistics have been recorded at the outbreak.
Cases by county:
- Bryan: 300 cases, 5 deaths
- Camden: 320 cases, 2 deaths
- Chatham: 2,907 cases, 39 deaths
- Effingham: 360 cases, 1 death
- Glynn: 1,653 cases, 10 deaths
- Liberty: 302 cases, 2 deaths
- Long: 75 cases, 1 death
- McIntosh: 92 cases, 1 death
Thus 5,948 are recovering or have recovered. 61 died. All who died had major health or age related complications.
27 comments:
What is the "incorrect" way?
The statistics do not indicate how many of those recovering or have recovered may have long-term health problems from coming down with it. And Glynn County (Brunswick-St. Simons) ranks near the top of the state's 159 counties in per-capita cases.
Should local governments in Georgia be allowed to mandate the wearing of masks in public?
Governor says no. I am for subsidiary in these matters. Bryan County is different that Fulton County and Chatham County. SC governor leaves it to local areas to mandate.
Anonymous:
What "long-term health problems"? So little is known about this disease. Like influenza, any severe upper respiratory virus can have post-infectious syndromes in a small minority of cases.
Fr McD:
Exactly what does reporting confirmed cases do? A much more useful figure is the actual number of cases, both asymptomatic and symptomatic in the general population, and testing for this is still not being done. Instead. confirmed case are reported which are confirmed only because testing has been done, and testing has been done mainly on those that have a reason to be tested, completely skewing the results. If you are not tested, there will be no cases. If you are tested in certain circumstances only, then what is the meaning of the results for the rest of the population? This issue was raised early in the epidemic, but still being virtually ignored, and yet government decisions are based on this lack of data.
3300 cases per day in GA. The health district which includes Houston and Bibb has only 18 or so ICU beds remaining unfilled, the district including Laurens and Twiggs has 1 ICU bed left unfilled. The state ICU beds are now at 80% capacity.
It is not going well.
Anonymous K,
If you stop looking at leftwing cherrypicked data, the US, other than NY, NJ, and CONN is doing well. Pull those 3 states out and the US beats most European Countries. But in the murdering of the unborn department, the US is a leader
There has been a resumption in Georgia hospitals in elective surgeries for the past couple of weeks. In the hospital nearby where I live, they are testing everyone admitted. If you come in to have, say, a stent placed, or a knee replacement, and test positive for COVID, you are put in the units with COVID patients. This is understandable, being that a COVID positive patient(though non-symptomatic) could spread it to those who are not positive.
The question is, how many of these are counted in with the hospitalized COVID patients, even though they have no symptoms?
You are right about the ICU beds being at 80%. ER beds are at 56% though.
This does not count the extra 20-24 bed modular surge units that have been constructed and completed this year at various Georgia Hospitals.
Unused ventilators are at 61%.
The data is still inaccurate. There is a woman in Ohio over the age of 80 who was tested for 15 days in a row. She is counted as 15 positives. The data is not properly distinguishing new cases from total cases. I now read the data as how many are known to have it, rather than how many new people are getting it.
Top five states in COVID deaths
New York 32,514
New Jersey 15,736
Massachusetts 8,380
Illinois 7,452
Total 64,082
The top 4 states in deaths per million population
New Jersey
New York
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Georgia ranked 15th (9th in population by U.S. states)
Florida currently ranked 23rd (ranked 3rd in population)
Texas currently ranked 34th( 2nd in population)
ER beds are for short term emergencies, where folk from there go to ICU, a regular room, or home. ICU beds are for folk at risk of dying and needing constant monitoring and treatment. They are not interchangeable in treatment nor are they interchangeable in isolation they offer. With ICU beds maxed out, ERs have no place to shift patients, and then the ER fills, too. 80% is perilously close to that happening. Regular rooms are not set up for that type treatment, and neither is normal floor staff trained to handle ICU duties.
Y’all be careful with the numbers. The only thing you can conclude about the old lady in Ohio is that there are stupid people in Ohio. Oh, wait, let me rephrase that. The Government makes big mistakes but we still need to acknowledge the virus is spreading. I am not certain that an earlier and more severe lockdown would have changed what we are seeing except for the length of time it spreads. There is a belief among some medical leaders that if we locked down 100% for 6-8 weeks it would have ended. I believe it would have come from some reservoir to ‘spike’ again until it had infected everyone. The difference would be the length of time involved.
Anecdotally, last winter I had a team in Las Vegas for an event and almost everyone fell ill within days. Some took it home to Tampa and some more got sick there. Today a coworker from Tampa called to tell me that one of of the team tested positive for antibodies in his serum. I had a similar event in February while visiting Tampa. We are all going now to get checked.
Ah yes, the leftwing cherrypicked data. Keep thinking that and you will really see a blue acceleration in Georgia this November!!! It will show that the narrow loss of the radical Stacey Abrams in 2018 to Kemp was not an aberration. Between Trump's incoherence on the crisis and Kemp suing the city of Atlanta on its "mask mandate", it is as if Republicans are trying to give away the election. And when Democrats win control of this state sometime this decade, these will not be like the Democrats of old, the moderate-conservative types like Sam Nunn, Herman Talmadge and Zell Miller---think the likes of AOC, Pelosi and Schumer. Not what I would want, and I suspect not what most of the people on this blog would want!
And I doubt those 24 bed modular units come with trained staff included. The staff shortage is as acute as the bed shortage, and all patients in an ICU can fairly be said to be at death's door and staff can handle only so many people "coding" at any given time. Neither does a ventilator provide some miracle cure and is only a last resort which fails more than it succeeds.
What killed so many in the NE was lack of ICU capacity and staff and numerous cities and states are edging into same catastrophy.
Anon @ 8:28pm yesterday tells the truth—listen to him/her! Locally, ICU beds at about 80% overall, but only b/c serious cases are now younger-aged (I wonder why!) and not requiring ventilators as often as elderly patients.
Anonymous K at 10:13,
Still ignoring the bulk of the China Flu deaths occurred in Dem run states. You will contumaciously vote for the Party of Death sealing your fate for eternity!
Here is a report that blows the lying, left-wing loon media's narrative out of the water:
https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/07/16/what-the-media-wont-tell-you-about-the-united-states-coronavirus-case-fatality-rate-n610264
Compared to nearly every European nation the US has a lower death rate and infection rate. This will make our frequent commentator with numerous nom-de-plumes very sad
Anonymous @ 8:28 PM
I work at an acute care hospital and our patient census (occupied beds) is actually down from last week. We have ways to cope and adapt, including delaying elective surgeries, as was done earlier in the pandemic. Also, as I was coming into work a couple of days ago, I noticed a group of 20-25 nurses being given an orientation. So just like New York did, we can bring in nurses from elsewhere to work for a certain period of time. Our EC overflow numbers for the first ten days of July averaged 1 patient. We also now have a 24 surge(overflow)unit beds we didn't have last year.
You should also go to the link above provided by Anonymous@4:30 PM for a different perspective .
Anonymous at 10:40,
Sadly Anonymous at 8:28 is a leftwing ideologue and is not interested in the truth but thanks for providing your first hand perspective
I am happy some critical care stats are good in some health districts, but a look at statewide stats for districts shows many are approaching capacity.
Yes, you can transfer some of those patients, but many you cannot, as they are in critical condition and not stable enough to move without losing quite a few.
Nor can you simply whistle up help from other states, as many states who were sending help are now also undergoing their own very pronounced surges of infections and will be loath to release folk they might need soon themselves.
As for accusations of left-wing, that is just pathetic baseless accusation and name calling, as there is not one left wing political statement to be found in any comment, only observations as to numbers.
Let us return to the 5 or so county district containing Dublin, which has only one or two ICU beds remaining, and consider the district containing Warner Robins and Macon as a perfect example of a district really not wanting transfers from another district as they are experiencing their own rapid rise in ICU need.
Pointing out this is a very serious situation is no manner of commie propaganda, and anyone who says it is shows only an ostrich with head buried firmly in the sand, or elsewhere.
Anonymous at 11:52 AM,
I am glad you are against baseless name calling, like when Joe Biden and Chuck Schumer referred to President Trump as a “racist and xenophobic” when he announced the China travel ban
wow, just wow.
What that has to do with health districts I have not a clue, nor current caseloads of various ICUs.
Are you looking for what? An oath of fealty to your ranting? I happen to agree that it was utter fools speaking as to Democrat power brokers doing that name calling, but let me hasten to add I am NOT in your corner or on the side of anyone whose only internet posts consist of "nyah nyah commie!" name calling, and for that reason, was very hesitant to show any agreement at all. With "friends" like you, I need no enemies.
Anonymous @11:52
Someone in my family sent me a link to an article written about the hospital I work at mentioning overflow in the EC. I texted back that even in normal times our EC has overflow, and I heard more than once from people I know who had gone there, that they had to wait many hours to be seen by staff. Sure, there has been a surge in COVID patients recently, but many of them have minimal symptoms. When I checked the hospital stats, only 7.5% of COVID patients required a ventilator. There were many more non-COVID patients on ventilators.
I had a heart attack two months ago during the height of the covid mess and the nurse told me they had NO covid cases. Of course I live in a less densely populated area. I checked the other day and our county has virtually no cases. I suspect when this is all over, we will see that densely populated areas were the hardest hit.
FYI,
If you want to see what is really happening with Covid you have to go to websites like The Bongino Report which carries the news the MSM buries. Covid deaths have declined 12 weeks in a row. So much for the "surge." This will disappoint the covid "porn" types
Well, you can play all kinds of games with statistics. For example, I just learned that in Ruritania, with a population of 100 million they had two confirmed cases of Covid-19 and one of them died. My goodness—a 50% case fatality rate, the worst in the world! Where would you rather live with respect to risk of contracting, and dying from, Covid-19, the United States or Ruritania? Personally, I would prefer the country with the 50% case fatality rate. A reductio ad absurdum? Of course, but these are employed to make a point. I hope those touting the link to the PJ Media site (and sites of that ilk) get it.
And to put matters into further perspective, here is someone else playing games with statistics, reaching a vastly different conclusion indeed:
https://theintercept.com/2020/07/16/trump-keeps-bragging-americas-covid-19-death-rate-among-worlds-worst/
Their conclusion:
“In fact, as data updated Friday by the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Resource Center shows, the United States, which has lost 423 citizens per million from the pandemic so far, currently has the seventh highest mortality rate in the world, excluding countries with fewer than 100,000 citizens.”
Moral: caveat lector (all round)! Or perhaps: “let’s move to New Zealand”?
The top 12 states in COVID mortality per million population are Democrat-run
Georgia ranks 17th (9nth in population)
Florida 25th(3rd in population)
Texas 35th (2nd in population)
The USA is doing much better than 7th in the world if you look at mortalities per million and include countries with at least 10 million population.
And what to make of countries such as Venezuela sn Vietnam with 4 mortalities per million? And Russia and China, do you not wonder about their numbers?
Well, whatever games one side or the other may play with statistics, the one constant we can be sure of is that Trump will lie about the situation, as the Intercept article makes crystal clear, just as he lies about everything else. You may think that’s fine. I don’t.
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