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I am unable to find a current case number, only cumulative numbers from NCDHHS at 14+000 people.
Can anyone find that information? As this is more important to me.
 
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I gotta tell ya, I really don’t care how many cases there are. They can play with that numbers due to crappy tests, politics and incompetence. The question is how many deaths and hospitalized patients. Are we overwhelming the healthcare system or watching obscene numbers of deaths beyond a bad flu season. That’s what really matters.
 
https://covid19.ncdhhs.gov/dashboard is the state summary; scroll down to the tabs in the second section for a variety of data.

When you say current versus cumulative, I suspect you want total cases less deaths and recoveries. The Johns Hopkins website does not have "recovered" stats for North Carolina. I know recovery data is somewhere in the system because my county shows it from arcgis.

As an aside, my county has consistently had around 110 active cases for several weeks as the component numbers have grown.
 
CZfool68 said:
I gotta tell ya, I really don’t care how many cases there are. They can play with that numbers due to crappy tests, politics and incompetence. The question is how many deaths and hospitalized patients. Are we overwhelming the healthcare system or watching obscene numbers of deaths beyond a bad flu season. That’s what really matters.
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They can play with the death numbers just as easily.
 
Cowboy said:
My nurse buddy swears they are counting people each and every time they test positive.

meaning one person could be 5 positive test.
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Why would a person get tested five separate times? I hear it's very painful, I dont know why someone would go through it multiple times
 
I don't get how we are two months in to this thing but there aren't more recovered cases. What's up with that?
 
Climberman said:
I don't get how we are two months in to this thing but there aren't more recovered cases. What's up with that?
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Not sure but I think if they test you and you are pos. and they just send you home to get better, you don't end up as a "recovered" stat. Only hosp. cases that get dismissed get listed as recovered, I think.

I also think that some that go home, get worse, and die might not be counted as COVID-19 related.
 
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Climberman said:
Recovered is kind of an important stat to be so overlooked IMO.
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Agreed, because it is a critical number in determining the fatality rate. If you contract the disease there are one of two outcomes. You either recover, though this doesn't mean you don't have permanent damage, or you succumb. Consequently, the fatality rate is deaths divided by deaths + recovered. Using the worldometer site gives pretty good numbers for this calculation. This number has been varying wildly in different areas and seems to range between about 5% and 30% . There is a temptation to divide the deaths by the active case count, but this doesn't really give you the desired result because of the delay, typically two or more weeks, between infection and recovery of death. As time goes on and more recover the fatality rate should go down. I have seen a couple of calculations that attempt to use delayed data to compensate for this and when this is done the fatality rate comes out at about 6-7%.

One other thing to consider is that alleged "flu" deaths are not real, actual, counted deaths. They are guess numbers by CDC models and to put it in a different perspective, one quote I saw that was supposedly by a doctor was to the effect of "we know X people die from car crashes, Y people die from guns, Z people die from heart attacks. I have seen deaths from X,Y,Z, but I have never seen someone die from flu."
 
personally, IDGAF about nationwide or statewide stats. I keep asking everyone how many they know that have gotten sick, been to the hospital, gotten tested, know someone. So far the answer is usually something along the lines of
"well Bubba's mother-in-laws sister's husbands girlfriends OB/GYN said that their grandmother's best friend's poker playing buddy was sick and went to the hospital from the nursing home...."

My personal known case tally is Zero. And I know...ALOT of people. Out of 15K at my companies current location, the tally is 6 or 7....in a Fortune 100 company with people from all over the world who travel.
 
Ikarus1 said:
personally, IDGAF about nationwide or statewide stats. I keep asking everyone how many they know that have gotten sick, been to the hospital, gotten tested, know someone. So far the answer is usually something along the lines of
"well Bubba's mother-in-laws sister's husbands girlfriends OB/GYN said that their grandmother's best friend's poker playing buddy was sick and went to the hospital from the nursing home...."

My personal known case tally is Zero. And I know...ALOT of people. Out of 15K at my companies current location, the tally is 6 or 7....in a Fortune 100 company with people from all over the world who travel.
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You should kiss the ground you walk on!

I'm in my 70s and I'll likely die from colon cancer (based on tests) than from influenza. Haven't gotten a flu shot in 6 years or so.
 
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HMP said:
Why would a person get tested five separate times? I hear it's very painful, I dont know why someone would go through it multiple times
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Not sure how all the tests go, but my son has been tested twice. Once when this kicked off and we were worried he had it, but it was just allergies. And once today since he is going in for a surgery procedure friday. The method they used both times was a swab deep in the back of both nostrils. He hates it, and freaks out about it, but it doesnt appear to be really "painful".
 
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My aunt died last week. Went to Wisconsin area hospital because of heart/breathing issue. There a day and put on a ventilator. Something went wrong in hospital, she got put on a helicopter to be shipped to a better hospital. They put in a balloon to pump her heart for her. That pumped harder than her heart did so it broke loose a clot in her leg. The doctor said she had Covid19 but the clot killed her. How much do you want to bet cause of death on the certificate was listed as Covid19.
 
B00ger said:
Not sure how all the tests go, but my son has been tested twice. Once when this kicked off and we were worried he had it, but it was just allergies. And once today since he is going in for a surgery procedure friday. The method they used both times was a swab deep in the back of both nostrils. He hates it, and freaks out about it, but it doesnt appear to be really "painful".
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Ive heard it's very uncomfortable and brings tears to many's eyes
I hope his surgery goes well, you'll be in my thoughts, your whole family
 
HMP said:
Why would a person get tested five separate times? I hear it's very painful, I dont know why someone would go through it multiple times
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If having a 6 inch swab put up your nostril while you sit in the comfort of your car in a parking lot is that painful. Or a saliva test where you spit in a cup is too painful for you. youre gonna need help with life in general. God forbid you ever feel real pain
 
LeeMajors said:
If having a 6 inch swab put up your nostril while you sit in the comfort of your car in a parking lot is that painful. Or a saliva test where you spit in a cup is too painful for you. youre gonna need help with life in general. God forbid you ever feel real pain
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Im going to say that a six inch swab up my nose sounds like hell
 
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