Blues cancel practice after multiple Positive COVID-19 tests.

[Bedards Dad]

It's hard to be sure who is BS'ing their numbers and who isn't but if these are accurate... wowzers.

Ya you never know, I'm having trouble finding US deaths from March to July 2019/8/7/6 to compare with March to July 2020. That would be pretty telling.

 

[Peiskos]

And around 200 deaths in a country of 330 million people and still declining. This whole thing sucks and every death matters but chill out. I worry about you guys.

US has reported 941 deaths today and 52,288 new cases today, Canada has reported 18 deaths today and 219 new cases today. What are you talking about?

ps these still aren't the final numbers check back by 10pm

 

[Confucius]

Its great that the players can fight off the affects. What we dont want is a bunch of loose canons walking around the city spreading their crap. If they come to play, isolate them and all involved. But how can we safely do that? Its not even remotely possible. Look at the precautions taken in a Level 4 Lab studying virus. Yet a virus still can escape.

 

[Peiskos]

Its great that the players can fight off the affects. What we dont want is a bunch of loose canons walking around the city spreading their crap. If they come to play, isolate them and all involved. But how can we safely do that? Its not even remotely possible. Look at the precautions taken in a Level 4 Lab studying virus. Yet a virus still can escape.

Like I said before, the majority of the players are Canadians, thus they have a basic sense of common courtesy and common sense built into them. You're unlikely to spot an NHL player out on the street without a mask for example. 90% of them are coming to their homeland, the bubble cities are in Toronto and Edmonton, they will follow the rules.

What I am more worried about are NBA players, historically a more do as they wish kind of athlete, and the bubble in Orlando, Florida, a state that is completely gone off the rails.

 

[Maple Leaf]

Everybody will be infected soon
let,s get this show on the road

 

[Mordoch]

He said 200 deaths...and declining. He’s talking about deaths per day.

That still is fantastic nonsense in terms of claims to make. The number from yesterday was actually 919 deaths, although that might have been an artifact of the holiday weekend in terms of reporting. It was 630 deaths on July 3rd though to provide a more realistic figure concerning recent numbers. https://covidtracking.com/data/us-daily

 

[WATTAGE4451]

It's not just the death toll. There's also survivors with apparently permanent detrimental effects, e.g. on lung functions. Furthermore, a lot of survivors experience relatively long-lasted weakness and associated effects.

Almost all of those survivors with detrimental effects were also the ones that had to go to the hospital because of the severity of their symptoms.

The number of hospitalizations for covid and "severe" imfections has also like deaths not been increasing, although lots of the critical cases started as mild cases that suddenly got more severe so its possible that the spike of hospitalizations is just lagging behind the spike in infections as they havent had time to turn severe yet.

However, its also possible that the increase in available testing means we are just catching more of the cases that we previously wouldnt have before. We know that all covid cases are much higher than what each country reports.

 

[wetcoast]

why wait 2 weeks? cases have been steadily going up since mid-June and the deaths haven't been rising

Almost 1000 today sure nothing to see here.

Man I wish I was wrong but deaths are going to go up.

 

[RorschachWJK]

Almost all of those survivors with detrimental effects were also the ones that had to go to the hospital because of the severity of their symptoms.

The number of hospitalizations for covid and "severe" imfections has also like deaths not been increasing, although lots of the critical cases started as mild cases that suddenly got more severe so its possible that the spike of hospitalizations is just lagging behind the spike in infections as they havent had time to turn severe yet.

However, its also possible that the increase in available testing means we are just catching more of the cases that we previously wouldnt have before. We know that all covid cases are much higher than what each country reports.

Yes, testing is increasing in some countries and may be partly behind the increase, at least in some areas.

However, in some countries a lot of the mortalities have been masked on purpose to other causes of death. In Russia for example. And who is naive enough to believe the "official" numbers out of China? They have been lying their asses off. Which is a customary thing to do for a ruling communist party in any country, of course.