I'm up in MA, and while our town's case count remains relatively low (65 active cases, 3 new positives in a population of 60,000), we're back in the red zone after being in the green less than a month ago. There are state fines in place, but enforcement hasn't been really followed through on partly because of the people required to do the enforcing and handing out of fines. The town just hired some people and created a task force of volunteers to handle it.
How long has it been since the Governor issued the latest change in restrictions?
It’s been about 3 weeks. Due to exponential spread (each person infects 2 and then they each infect 2 or 6 total, etc...) it does take time for a spike to emerge. It doesn’t just happen in a few weeks. As we saw in the spring people were way too quick to pat themselves on the back and congratulate each other for no issues with re-openings and then the spike came. So far there’s only been a moderate uptick in cases but I wouldn’t say we are out of the woods yet. This past week alone had a 15% increase in cases week over week and the 7 day daily average is near 3,000 again.
How many people have been exposed or infected in the parks?
At this point it’s because the parks asked them not to. From the beginning the parks have received special treatment that is just ignored.
The parks were exempt from the initial shutdown orders in California. Guidelines were recently going to be released but the parks didn’t like them, so they were withheld for additional work. What other groups of businesses were specially exempt and then got to renegotiate their reopening guidelines?
There’s no way to know either. The answer lies somewhere between nobody and everybody who has gone
So far no major outbreaks at a theme park (particularly WDW) which I’m sure DLR management is using as exhibit A to petition opening their park in CA.
Not specific to Disney at all but I’m very disappointed in the USA’s tracing. If I knew who was actually catching covid and where, and how, I would be much more open to visiting Disney and other public gathering type places.There’s no way to know either. The answer lies somewhere between nobody and everybody who has gone
Very true. If we only had a consistent, centrally organized response to the pandemic and invested the time and money to ramp up testing and tracing from the beginning I definitely think we’d be further along with both overall cases and also how much of the economy is open. Sadly, instead we got denials, finger pointing, conspiracy theories and ultimately a failed national response. Just calling it like I see it.
A good example of this exp. growth is that this current spike is being attributed to Events surrounding Labor Day weekend. (late aug/early sept)
Sorry, I mistyped. Your data had 201 “non-resident” deaths. What the heck is that?
Yes!! This!! Back in the “early days” of the spike there was one poster who would always minimize deaths, saying the 100+ didn’t actually happen on that day, and that they were backdated and spread out. Then someone else would roll out the “actual deaths by date” graph.
"Moderna Chief Executive Officer Stéphane Bancel expects interim results from its Covid-19 vaccine trial in November and said the U.S government could give an emergency use nod in December, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
Speaking at the newspaper’s annual Tech Live conference, Bancel also said sufficient interim results from the study takes longer to get and that the government’s permission to use the vaccine may not come until next year.
The first interim analysis of the vaccine’s efficacy will happen when 53 people in the entire study get symptomatic Covid-19, the report said.
“That first analysis is likely to occur in November, but it’s hard to predict exactly which week because it depends on the cases, the number of people getting sick,” the report quoted Bancel as saying."
Moderna CEO reportedly expects coronavirus vaccine interim results in November
Moderna Chief Executive Officer Stéphane Bancel expects interim results from its Covid-19 vaccine trial in November and said the U.S government could give an emergency use nod in December, The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.www.cnbc.com
