Covid-19 in OKC (coronavirus)

[sooner88]

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I had an ongoing chart similar to Pete's, but updated it with his format and added a chart similar to ShadowStrings. The upward trend is alarming.

[HangryHippo]

I had an ongoing chart similar to Pete's, but updated it with his format and added a chart similar to ShadowStrings. The upward trend is alarming.

Any chance you can make that bigger?

[jdizzle]

I had an ongoing chart similar to Pete's, but updated it with his format and added a chart similar to ShadowStrings. The upward trend is alarming.

Meh, you have to take the upward trend with a grain of salt. Since OK is hardly testing, any mass testings are going to result in a large spike. I am not sure why OK does not have many tests, but they need to get more, and fast. It would flatten the "upward trend" a bit, after a few days of spikes, just due to more testing.

[sooner88]

Any chance you can make that bigger?

See if this works. Having trouble resizing it and can't tell until I reply.

[Pete]

In my mind, hospitalizations are the key number, as that demonstrates how much strain is being placed on our healthcare system.

[Bunty]

10,000 COVID-19 test kits will only last so long. I hope more are on the way.
https://www.ocolly.com/news/osu-diag...32a3305fe.html

[Pete]

New estimates show 25% to 50% of coronavirus carriers don't even feel sick and can infect others blindly

[TheTravellers]

Some jobs just can't be done from home, no matter how hard the nation may want them to be. IT, for one thing, is hard to do from home. AP can also be hard to do from home (especially writing checks).

Tons of IT can be done remotely, I've been WFH off and on during my entire career for decades, and I'm a UNIX sys admin. Where I'm at now has great infrastructure and unless it's actual hardware that needs fixing, I can do everything I need to remotely, as can our entire IT staff, they're almost 100% WFH now.

[jerrywall]

Was gonna say, I'm IT and our entire staff is at home besides rare person who's available to go on site, and my wife is AP and she's been at home. Yeah, there was some time spent getting the vendors on ACH the first couples of days. So there are some hurdles but nothing insurmountable.

I will say, it was lucky we had started moving to softphones already. It made it a lot easier to transition all the other employees to remote.

[mugofbeer]

10,000 kits delivered to the state, look for the COVID #s to move up even more.

[sooner88]

Meh, you have to take the upward trend with a grain of salt. Since OK is hardly testing, any mass testings are going to result in a large spike. I am not sure why OK does not have many tests, but they need to get more, and fast. It would flatten the "upward trend" a bit, after a few days of spikes, just due to more testing.

That's why the death/positive ratio is a better indicator. Assuming there will be an upward trend of positive results due an increased in testing, we'll need to look at the downward trend in that ratio as a sign of things turning around. Obviously the number of hospitalized is important as our hospital capacity reaches its limit.

[kukblue1]

So what you’re saying is that my company making most of us come in, despite the fact that most of us can work from home, is a bad idea?

I guess a better way I could have put it and stop making extra trips. I have to go to work my job can't be done from home however I go to work and back and that's it. No running in Target no running into Walmart no going through a fast food drive-thru. Its work and backand nothing else. I cringe when I go to work at 2 p.m. in the afternoon and the drive-thru fast food restaurants have like six seven cars in them

[jdizzle]

Tons of IT can be done remotely, I've been WFH off and on during my entire career for decades, and I'm a UNIX sys admin. Where I'm at now has great infrastructure and unless it's actual hardware that needs fixing, I can do everything I need to remotely, as can our entire IT staff, they're almost 100% WFH now.

With our servers being on-site, our IT has been working from the office (at least 1 staff member at a time). Those servers go down, tax and audit info for 100's of clients are vulnerable. they are able to work some from home, yes. But they are rotating who comes to the office, especially to help since 75% of our CPA firm is working from home. Not all clients are the same. I was basing my comment off my company, which might not always be accurate. I apologize

[OKC_Chipper]

In my mind, hospitalizations are the key number, as that demonstrates how much strain is being placed on our healthcare system.

The Dept of Health said on Twitter that the hospitalization number includes, current, discharged, and deceased. I wish we just could see a number of current hospitalizations because at the end of the day that's the number that really matters.

[Pete]

The Dept of Health said on Twitter that the hospitalization number includes, current, discharged, and deceased. I wish we just could see a number of current hospitalizations because at the end of the day that's the number that really matters.

Yes, and thanks for that info.

[OKC Guy]

Some of the issues are:

1. We still have mail delivery is anyone cleaning mail?

2. Grocery stores are where everyone goes, so you could do perfect stay at home for a month and presto, catch it the one trip you make

3. Those working get gas at pumps and touch handles

4. Flights INCONUS still going. We all know NYC is infected and has been. Check out this flight data from today, all going out of NYC:

[kukblue1]

Some of the issues are:

1. We still have mail delivery is anyone cleaning mail?

2. Grocery stores are where everyone goes, so you could do perfect stay at home for a month and presto, catch it the one trip you make

3. Those working get gas at pumps and touch handles

4. Flights INCONUS still going. We all know NYC is infected and has been. Check out this flight data from today, all going out of NYC:

!. Wash your hands before and after touching the mail you should be fine there or leave it in there for a day or two like get it on monday so it has 24 hours to sit since there is no mail on Sunday

2. You are right about the grocery store. I'm doing car side pick up and once again wash your hands before and after.

3. I used a couple of those towels they have hanging and used that to pump gas and washed my hands as soon as I got home

4. Yeah nothing we can do about that one

Bottom line wash your hands will probably cut your risk in half if not more. I wonder what the number on that really is?

[catch22]

Unless you are shaking hands with the postman, theres not much risk in touching your mail. It can't survive outside of a living organism long enough to be infectious for a long period of time. It can be there but not be transferrable. I would advise to wash your hands after. But I wouldn't be wasting my Lysol on spraying down my mail, or groceries for that matter.

Just wash your hands.

[Greggo71]

New estimates show 25% to 50% of coronavirus carriers don't even feel sick and can infect others blindly

Another way to look at that is 25-50% don't have to worry about being sick at all - net positive for society right? Combine that with the very high percentage of people experiencing mild symptoms and it seems like we might get through this yet.

[soonerguru]

TOP TEN STATE BABY! Imagine that!

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...ndspots-157993

[TheTravellers]

TOP TEN STATE BABY! Imagine that!

https://www.politico.com/news/2020/0...ndspots-157993

Do y'all (because it's happened multiple times recently, not just this once) not read previous posts? This was already posted in this thread, literally less than 3 hours ago - https://www.okctalk.com/showthread.p...94#post1112194

[AP]

I also posted it before that.

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[AP]

Interesting piece on the difficulties in modeling.

FiveThirtyEight

[Edmond Hausfrau]

The Dept of Health said on Twitter that the hospitalization number includes, current, discharged, and deceased. I wish we just could see a number of current hospitalizations because at the end of the day that's the number that really matters.

The executive order on the OSDH site that counts the number of vents, etc in state is also counting ALL occupied hospital beds. It's an important number. There are probably people staying home who may have used those beds for short stay surgeries, but also some things can't be put off, like deliveries and c-sectons. If that number starts to climb (it's been holding steady around 4,500) you should get worried.

[catcherinthewry]

Here is good resource where you can view the numbers of the country as a whole or state by state:
https://covid19.healthdata.org/projections