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LiberalArkie

(15,686 posts)
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 11:28 AM Jun 2020

'All of a Sudden It Blows Up': Arkansas' COVID Problem Is Just Getting Started

For months, New Yorkers saw their hospitals flood with COVID-19 patients and bodies pile up in refrigerated overflow morgue trucks. Meanwhile, other parts of the country never even implemented a statewide lockdown.

For those hoping a slew of Southern and rural states might have avoided the worst of the pandemic entirely, Friday’s case counts provided a grim answer.

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“It is important for our community to understand that we are not seeing more hospitalizations simply because more testing is being done,” added Wright. “We are seeing more hospitalizations because more people in our area are being infected with the virus.”

In the past week, Wright said, Washington Regional had seen a 170 percent increase in the number of tests performed at screening clinics, and a 350 percent increase in the number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients. Of those, it also saw more critically ill virus patients, with more than 30 percent of those who’d been hospitalized requiring ventilator support.

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https://www.thedailybeast.com/arkansas-covid-problem-is-just-getting-started-all-of-a-sudden-it-blows-up?ref=home

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'All of a Sudden It Blows Up': Arkansas' COVID Problem Is Just Getting Started (Original Post) LiberalArkie Jun 2020 OP
that's weird that someone would think testing causes hospitalizations mucifer Jun 2020 #1
That is how the conservatives think. "No testing then no covid" LiberalArkie Jun 2020 #3
Just an overflowing ICU and no room for bodies in the morgue mucifer Jun 2020 #4
Check out Craig LiberalArkie Jun 2020 #5
When I said two months ago that we were just in the very beginning of all this, that those of us Eliot Rosewater Jun 2020 #2
Idiots! SheltieLover Jun 2020 #6
And so much for what all us people in the south were hoping for. LiberalArkie Jun 2020 #7
Right! SheltieLover Jun 2020 #9
K&R. I was ready to post the same story after... Buckeye_Democrat Jun 2020 #8
Large per cent of new community cases are in Springdale at the Tyson plants. sinkingfeeling Jun 2020 #10

mucifer

(23,374 posts)
1. that's weird that someone would think testing causes hospitalizations
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 11:30 AM
Jun 2020

It's the fricking disease that causes hospitalizations.

LiberalArkie

(15,686 posts)
3. That is how the conservatives think. "No testing then no covid"
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 11:34 AM
Jun 2020

Ever day the governor gives the results. Every time he say about the area where breakout happened "Of course, we just increased the testing there"

Eliot Rosewater

(31,097 posts)
2. When I said two months ago that we were just in the very beginning of all this, that those of us
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 11:32 AM
Jun 2020

still alive a year from now will look back on now as the "good ole days.", I was just assuming what the science was saying was right.

Rump is a fascist and the dumbest adult on earth and he is killing us, he will kill millions of us before his actions are done. Even if a miracle happens and putin allows us to have an election (the election done properly guarantees Joe wins if we do our jobs) and Joe is put in we still will suffer tremendously DIRECTLY because of the traitor and ALL OF YOU FUCKERS OUT THERE who support him

YOU are ALL killers...every last one of you.

LiberalArkie

(15,686 posts)
7. And so much for what all us people in the south were hoping for.
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 01:43 PM
Jun 2020

It would go away when it got hot. Nope it seems this is not your ordinary "flu".

Buckeye_Democrat

(14,847 posts)
8. K&R. I was ready to post the same story after...
Sat Jun 13, 2020, 01:49 PM
Jun 2020

... checking this site's map for the growing outbreaks:

https://covid19-projections.com

The map labeled "C19Pro Score" generally shows where new infection percentages are outpacing new testing percentages, which indicates there's more cases not "explained away" by simply more testing.

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