Covid is right here, and it's getting bad fast.

Well Sound Daughter got her test last and the results came back as negative. Since i can't imagine her living with the other three of us and NOT having it, we figure she's already over it.

Its great the way the CDC web site has every statement about covid go something like this: "Covid symptoms are xxx,yyy,zzz, unless they are not." "You should xxxx, unless you think you shouldn't." "Your Covid test may be positive or negative, whether you have an active case or not."

WTH?

It says that you should be over it by 10 days after the first symptoms appear. My symptoms started around the 5th (I think, I can't tell what was allergies and what was COVID) which means I should be clear now, but just took the test 5 days ago on Friday and it came up positive.

I was going to get another test, but the CDC site says that *if* you were positive before, the chance of a false positive is very high even after 10 days when you should be over it, so why bother?

It's no wonder people are confused as hell about what they should be doing.
 
Well Sound Daughter got her test last and the results came back as negative. Since i can't imagine her living with the other three of us and NOT having it, we figure she's already over it.

Its great the way the CDC web site has every statement about covid go something like this: "Covid symptoms are xxx,yyy,zzz, unless they are not." "You should xxxx, unless you think you shouldn't." "Your Covid test may be positive or negative, whether you have an active case or not."

WTH?

It says that you should be over it by 10 days after the first symptoms appear. My symptoms started around the 5th (I think, I can't tell what was allergies and what was COVID) which means I should be clear now, but just took the test 5 days ago on Friday and it came up positive.

I was going to get another test, but the CDC site says that *if* you were positive before, the chance of a false positive is very high even after 10 days when you should be over it, so why bother?

It's no wonder people are confused as hell about what they should be doing.
At Guard Daughter's house...he husband and daughter number two got it, she and daughter #1 did not. And her antibody test says she has not had it.
 
My aunt, Katie, has been hospitalized in Houston, Texas with Covid.

If she can survive it, anyone can.
Update:

She's been taken off of the ventilator and has said her goodbyes.
It looks like she will be with us maybe one or two more days (at the most).

It's really not a huge surprise. She's up in years and wasn't in the best of health to begin with.
I just feel bad for her immediate family.
 
Update:

She's been taken off of the ventilator and has said her goodbyes.
It looks like she will be with us maybe one or two more days (at the most).

It's really not a huge surprise. She's up in years and wasn't in the best of health to begin with.
I just feel bad for her immediate family.

I'm concerned that will be the result with dad. 86, blood marrow cancer, low red blood count and covid is not a good mix. :(
 
I consider myself a smart guy (no comments please :D ) but that website confuses me with how they change numbers for past days. It was something like 1.3+ a week or so ago but you'd never know by looking at it now.
I don't know if this is what they are doing or not because I haven't dived into the website, but it isn't uncommon to revise estimates such as this when better numbers come in. If they are giving you an instantaneous number like "today", there is a lot of maybe in that number. This isn't because they are incompetent, it's just because you simply can't know that number with a lot of confidence. I would imagine that somewhere in the website they explain their process and margin of error.
 
I don't know if this is what they are doing or not because I haven't dived into the website, but it isn't uncommon to revise estimates such as this when better numbers come in. If they are giving you an instantaneous number like "today", there is a lot of maybe in that number. This isn't because they are incompetent, it's just because you simply can't know that number with a lot of confidence. I would imagine that somewhere in the website they explain their process and margin of error.

Makes sense but to change previous dates from a really bad number (1.3) to a good number (0.94) in the span of a week just seems odd or their calculation method is simply inadequate.

Good news is most of the country is under 1.0 now (assuming the numbers actually mean anything).
 
Makes sense but to change previous dates from a really bad number (1.3) to a good number (0.94) in the span of a week just seems odd or their calculation method is simply inadequate.

Good news is most of the country is under 1.0 now (assuming the numbers actually mean anything).
Honestly I don't know how they calculate their numbers. I would look at it only as maybe a two week trailing trend. It's kinda like the unemployment numbers, until you have a few to look at they don't mean much.
 
At Guard Daughter's house...he husband and daughter number two got it, she and daughter #1 did not. And her antibody test says she has not had it.
Some people just seem to not get it. We have very close friends who have two adult children, their spouses, and two small children who moved in after losing their jobs to Covid. Everyone in the house had it except the two kids and the Grandmom. Grandpa was in the hospital.for over a week and the adult kids were basket cases. Grandma never got it. I have no idea how she avoided it but they should study people like her. She is over 65, obese, and diabetic, yet nothing. it sure was a blessing to her family because she took care of everyone.
 
I don't know if this is what they are doing or not because I haven't dived into the website, but it isn't uncommon to revise estimates such as this when better numbers come in. If they are giving you an instantaneous number like "today", there is a lot of maybe in that number. This isn't because they are incompetent, it's just because you simply can't know that number with a lot of confidence. I would imagine that somewhere in the website they explain their process and margin of error.
Well put, I think this is what they do.

I think it's one of the better tracking sites out there.
 
Some people just seem to not get it. We have very close friends who have two adult children, their spouses, and two small children who moved in after losing their jobs to Covid. Everyone in the house had it except the two kids and the Grandmom. Grandpa was in the hospital.for over a week and the adult kids were basket cases. Grandma never got it. I have no idea how she avoided it but they should study people like her. She is over 65, obese, and diabetic, yet nothing. it sure was a blessing to her family because she took care of everyone.
Right. And while we have some ideas as to why, I suspect we still don't understand this virus well.
 
Honestly I don't know how they calculate their numbers. I would look at it only as maybe a two week trailing trend. It's kinda like the unemployment numbers, until you have a few to look at they don't mean much.
They are changing numbers back at the beginning of November. They said it was to 'Smooth' out the graph.
 
Update:

She's been taken off of the ventilator and has said her goodbyes.
It looks like she will be with us maybe one or two more days (at the most).

It's really not a huge surprise. She's up in years and wasn't in the best of health to begin with.
I just feel bad for her immediate family.
I am so sorry. I hope miraculously she pulls out of it.

That is the reason I wish they would just get all the over 65 population vaccinated quickly. The odds are horrible for those over 65. Don't give vaccines to anyone else until the 65 and older are vaccinated. Then teachers and other front line people.

The 50 and below have not had a high percentage of deaths.

I keep telling my mom stay safe at home. Your generation's odds when covid is contracted are horrible. I bring her food and she gets mad and says she has no more room to store it... I say good, you don't have to go to the store.
I'm concerned that will be the result with dad. 86, blood marrow cancer, low red blood count and covid is not a good mix. :(
Hopefully he will make it through.
 
Update:

She's been taken off of the ventilator and has said her goodbyes.
It looks like she will be with us maybe one or two more days (at the most).

It's really not a huge surprise. She's up in years and wasn't in the best of health to begin with.
I just feel bad for her immediate family.
Sorry, buddy
 
We've had another person at work test positive. That brings the count to 3. Fortunately, I haven't heard of anyone having very bad symptoms.
 
When a person tests positive, does it mean they have Covid or simply been exposed,,, like with the TB tine test?
 
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