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Not a bad solution, but will stadiums go for that? That's a big chunk of change sitting out there. Mandated by the League or else forego fans altogether, it may work. The owners would eat (pun intended) those profits over losing ticket sales outright.

Yeah, fake news is fake unless it's Fox News. Smh. FYI, he probably won't click a NY Post link either.

That's the reason I refer to look at it in terms of percentages. Saying to people that 9% of the people that tested yesterday was positive in NC will probably cause concern, but then saying nearly 1,300 tested positive in a day is alarming. However, it's the same thing.

The state should be able to handle the case lode IF the overall positive amount doesn't get much higher than 10%. I would venture to say anything over 13% would be trouble at the same testing rate.

They may have to back down the number of elective surgeries if the numbers keeps getting higher to create more room.

These are numbers for NC or Colorado where you live?

Do you have any idea of the testing increase amount (a raw number or percentage)? I'm very curious to figure out the amount of tests being administered now relative to the number of prior positive cases.

It's obvious, not amazing. Only in America can your elected officials politicize a pandemic. Pandemics are serious stuff and to intentionally manipulate the masses one way or the other for political scoring points is sickening. Both sides are guilty, some more so than others. I'll just leave it at that.

Yeah, when they stopped putting COVID-19 patients in nursing homes was a good start. Still, they've come a VERY long way.

As with all deep questions, it requires a complex answer and I obviously don't have all of the insight. First and foremost we need to look at the data, sift through the garbage and politically motivated. There's enough studies being done that the picture is getting clearer now. Then it's a risk/reward scenario reopening the economy. Have guidelines that people should follow. However, lock down didn't stop the virus, but we surely don't want to revisit the early days of the pandemic either. Ultimately I think we keep awareness in the forefront and reopen the economy is the best road for going forward. The virus will either burn itself out or we will get a vaccine. In the meantime, we can't keep the country buttoned up any longer. If it gets out of control again, unfortunately another stint in lock down may be required, but it probably worth the risk than staying in lock down indefinitely. If you are high risk, TAKE PRECAUTION! That has been and still is the main focus. Infection rate and death rates are up for debate, but what data has unanimously shown is elderly people with pre-existing conditions should be the most cautious as the demographic most likely to succumb to the virus if contracting it at approximate 90% of all fatalities.

In SC, the number of cases have gone up, but the daily number of deaths have stayed fairly constant averaging about 6. That being said the mortality rate is slowly coming down. Understand, we have a large sample size here and for the measuring stick being moved in any meaningful way is significant. We are down to 4.0% mortality of positive tests from 4.6% before widespread testing started a few weeks ago. Again, when dealing with a sample this big (13,000 positive tests now) shrinking 0.6% is a big deal.

This is an interesting article that describes why the initial calculations were so dire and why they keep get revised. As I've been saying for a while, the huge 'x' factor are those not tested that have had this virus and still are contracting it. To use an analogy: it's like an iceberg...the tested are all you see above the waterline, the unknown is how large is the unseen portion? No doubt this is worse than a really bad flu season, but it isn't the Spanish flu either. Likely, this will like a more serious Hong Kong flu. Before you poo that idea, remember people weren't required to get tested and how relatively lax the response was to that pandemic. Therefore, the numbers are almost assuredly under-reported for that outbreak. An Interesting Look at COVID-19

The important thing is to see the hospitalization and deaths number over the next 7-10 days. If there's not a sizable spike in either, that means the virus is weakening. Sure nobody wants to get sick, but the mortal fear factor may subside from the levels of just a few weeks ago.

They may have to settle for a medium sized one, but I can assure you for the right amount of money, something will get bumped or rescheduled.

Major metropolitan Republican mayors have gone the way of the snow leopards, not extinct but very rare. Politics have become too predictably divided between liberal urban-ites and conservative suburbia. It's been trending that way for a long time now. If...big IF... the corona virus subsides enough to host a packed convention, will the mayors still turn the convention away? It comes down to votes versus the economy.

The RNC convention is moving from Charlotte. Politics aside, this will be a blow to the local economy already missing out on revenue from all the other cancelled events. The new city and state has yet to be determined.

Probably coded a COVID-19 death too since was somehow related. As for the furloughs, yep, heard that from nurses too. You would not believe the number of surgeries that are elective, it's a huge portion of the hospital surgeries. Once elective surgeries were cancelled or delayed until deemed "safe", hospital staff had to be cut. They have budgets to meet like any other business.

In SC we are down to 6 deaths a day from 10 at the height of pandemic statewide several weeks ago. Still too high, but at least the numbers are going down despite no vaccine being available.

Italian doctors are now say COVID-19 is losing it's punch. While still transmittable, not nearly as lethal as the early/original strain. Virus Losing Lethal Potency in Italy

OH SNAP! We got ourselves a UPS-USPS smack down! I'm taken wagers....who ya got?

About 95% of the deaths are 60+. Again, it illustrates that demographic should use the utmost caution. Granted everyone should, but especially these people.

So 11% between 40 and 60. Under 40 was 1%, therefore 12% under the age of 60.

True and why the denominator is smaller than it should be in calculating the death rate. We know there's a LOT more people out there that have/had it and never got tested. The 1.7 million confirmed cases is way off as to the number of people who contracted this. How off? Nobody knows.

Get the data form the health departments, not news agencies. That's where I get SC's COVID info. It's purely data driven with ZERO agenda.

It's not a confirmed case unless you have been tested and it comes back positive. Think of the people that have been turned away because they weren't "ill enough". There was a co-worker of mine whose daughter had a high fever and a dry cough, but since the daughter was young they turned her away saying they needed to take in older and more ill patients. This was back in early April. The daughter felt better after about a week. Sound familiar?