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SvennoJ on 15 August 2020
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Barozi said:
vivster said:
Hope Germany can get this second wave under control. Actually we're already past the point where we should have implemented a wide spread lockdown again. I demand a statement from Angie who promised that there would be localized lockdowns if it broke out regionally again, but that never happened.

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There's currently only one county with more than 50 cases per 100k, which was declared to be the critical value.

Even the proposed lower value of 35 has only been reached by that same county (it's getting close though).

Infections are going up, no doubt but not as dramatically as it might seem due to bigger testing capacities. The lowest positivity rate was 0.6% and we're now at 1.0%. Still managable but I don't have a good feeling about sending children to school...

The extra testing card is getting old. Test capacity has been met for a long time, however we're still not catching most of the infections.

Here in Ontario the positivity rate is only 0.33% (30,436 tests added, pending tests decreased by 1,574, 32,010 test resolved with 106 positives) The media reports is as highest number of new cases in 4 days, yet the positivity rate is actually slightly lower since more tests were resolved. (yesterday 92 positives out of 23,760 tests resolved)

However that's mostly routine tests, medical professionals and essential workers that get tested regularly. Meanwhile the younger population where most of the infections now lie either have very mild symptoms or shrug it off as nothing serious. More tests doesn't mean you're testing the right demographic.

Of the new patients, the majority were between the ages of 20 and 39. Twenty-five new cases were reported in people under the age of 20, while less than 14 were recorded in those over the age of 60.

Anyway still hovering near 100 daily, not a lot for nearly 15 million population, but how many mild cases are there remains the question. It keeps coming back even after my local county was clear for nearly 2 weeks. I doubt it actually was clear.

Our medical experts are pretty worried for the fall, predicting the second wave to coincide with flu season and ups and downs continuing al the way into 2022. Hospitals are getting ready for the next wave, ventilators are being stock piled. Ready to go back to school lol.