News Article: COVID 19 POSITIVITY THREAD: Useful links, hopeful news etc

[Gotaf7]

Anti mask rally in Steinbach, CO’s handing out tickets.

 

[Buffdog]

We are nowhere near the severity that ND is.
2270 cases so far today and nowhere near 800,000 people in the state!
Over 700 deaths!
The governor has asked the nurses that have tested psoitive and are asymptomatic to go back to work!
Ya, we are nowhere near ND in any way, shape or form wrt to the virus.

I'm not sure if you understand RT PCR testing, viral load and infectiousness. A positive test doesn't mean someone has covid - you can test positive for months after you've recovered due to the sensitivity of the test.

People who don't understand things like high cycle threshold positive tests being included in the case counts are more likely to be the ones wringing their hands over this.

Also, all jurisdictions have different parameters on how they qualify a death as a "covid death", which makes it hard to compare. In the states, the CDC requires anyone who had tested positive with covid to be included on death certificates, even if they were asymptomatic or had recovered. Here in MB you have to be actively ill with covid symptoms AND a positive test - which is why our death rate is relatively lower than many places (and the count is probably more accurate). According to the ND website, they suss out 112 of their deaths from that.

North Dakota Coronavirus Cases

 

[Hunter368]

Ok good chat guys, but we want you to take it the main boards COVID area. Thx