COVID-19 2nd wave - Texas only - Stats and such

[GreenspointTexas 9883]

Over 1000 deaths today. Highest in 6 months. Deaths per day have quadrupled in less than 3 weeks

[Fletch 5802]

1 hour ago, LTtxfan said:

When do UT students return to Austin ??

Just went to Dirtys with a friend. Apparently right about now. Saw a bunch of uhauls all over west campus 

[Deej 77313]

2 minutes ago, Fletch said:

Just went to Dirtys with a friend. Apparently right about now. Saw a bunch of uhauls all over west campus 

Rest in peace.

[GreenspointTexas 9883]

https://www.kcentv.com/mobile/article/news/health/coronavirus/24-students-covid-morgan-isd-releases-students-early/500-d313aa6d-edec-4692-993b-c75beffdf5cb
 

 

bottom line: If you have kids in any school in any grade level, youre gonna catch covid sometime in the next 3-4 weeks

[utee94 15907]

1 hour ago, JesusSweatDuck said:

Good riddance to ENS.  That fucking building smelled like shit.

And the Penthouse with all of the fish being microwaved... ugh.  We hated that building.  Called it "The Toilet" because the hallways were all lined with those small bathroom tiles.  So gross.

Edited August 19, 2021 by utee94

[Deej 77313]

11 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

https://www.kcentv.com/mobile/article/news/health/coronavirus/24-students-covid-morgan-isd-releases-students-early/500-d313aa6d-edec-4692-993b-c75beffdf5cb
 

 

bottom line: If you have kids in any school in any grade level, youre gonna catch covid sometime in the next 3-4 weeks

Dying of COVID, or living in Temple...

[hookemATL 12019]

26 minutes ago, GreenspointTexas said:

https://www.kcentv.com/mobile/article/news/health/coronavirus/24-students-covid-morgan-isd-releases-students-early/500-d313aa6d-edec-4692-993b-c75beffdf5cb
 

 

bottom line: If you have kids in any school in any grade level, youre gonna catch covid sometime in the next 3-4 weeks

[Hanrahan 1306]

Delta is going to blow up cases in other states soon as well.  It is that contagious.  Compare Texas and Hawaii (and Hawaii has mask mandates, high mask compliance and one of the highest vaccine rates).  Here is hoping there are enough of the vulnerable that are vaccinated so deaths are less/lower CFR.

 

Cases are one thing but I’d be more interested in seeing the comparative hospitalization and death rates.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11830]

1 hour ago, JesusSweatDuck said:

Good riddance to ENS.  That fucking building smelled like shit.

Csb, in about 1988 I went in there to meet my brother who was an engineering student.  I looked around all confused and couldn’t find him until he yelled GOOD MORNING VIETNAM! from his bench over on one side.

One of the funniest things I ever saw though was outside ECJ, I caught the shuttle bus just west of there, and there were a ton of Asian students on it and the windows were open.  As we were creeping past that building, there was some old dude wearing Birkenstock’s with knee high socks.  Everyone on the bus started yelling SOCKS AND SANDALS NO, NO BRO! Over and over.  

 

Edited August 19, 2021 by Judge Roybeanbag

[Skipper 6340]

When you see stats like 24% of students/staff test positive, how are they conducting these tests?  Are they doing mandatory rapid tests on everyone?  Because otherwise how are they even testing that high of a percentage?

[StruggleBus 3922]

2 hours ago, GreenspointTexas said:

https://www.kcentv.com/mobile/article/news/health/coronavirus/24-students-covid-morgan-isd-releases-students-early/500-d313aa6d-edec-4692-993b-c75beffdf5cb
 

 

bottom line: If you have kids in any school in any grade level, youre gonna catch covid sometime in the next 3-4 weeks

Hyperbole much?

[Bookman 4731]

This shit's about to burn through the unvaccinated.

[utee94 15907]

1 hour ago, Judge Roybeanbag said:

Csb, in about 1988 I went in there to meet my brother who was an engineering student.  I looked around all confused and couldn’t find him until he yelled GOOD MORNING VIETNAM! from his bench over on one side.

One of the funniest things I ever saw though was outside ECJ, I caught the shuttle bus just west of there, and there were a ton of Asian students on it and the windows were open.  As we were creeping past that building, there was some old dude wearing Birkenstock’s with knee high socks.  Everyone on the bus started yelling SOCKS AND SANDALS NO, NO BRO! Over and over.  

 

And that man, was Terry Wagner.

[Skipper 6340]

44 minutes ago, StruggleBus said:

Hyperbole much?

Ballgame. 

 

Although not sure it's that much of an exaggeration.   Kids are going to be spreading this around and bringing it home to parents like crazy over the next 4-6 weeks. 

Edited August 19, 2021 by Skipper

[GreenspointTexas 9883]

1 hour ago, StruggleBus said:

Hyperbole much?

All the time

 

But for real…. At lunch time alone, hundreds of kids from hundreds of different households are gonna be eating lunch in the same place. Ill be absolutely floored if im wrong

[LTtxfan 49472]

5 hours ago, Lobo said:

First day of classes is 25 August.   I will say this though about earlier this week, just to end another bummer post on a high note---Monday was some kinda rush day on/near campus.  The theme for all grades was tennis skirts.  I couldn't tell you how many were masked/unmasked butt the underbutt was 95% 

 

Anna had a Great Tennis Butt

  

 

 

 

[fattyflattie 4639]

5 hours ago, South Austin said:

I think there’s a lot in the latter category. I can see a parent finding out they or their kid was near someone over the weekend who tested positive, but as long as the kid isn’t showing any symptoms they won’t test for fear of an asymptotic positive leading to quarantine/remote learning/staying at home with the kid.

My wife showed me pics on Facebook of a girl tonight that was closely exposed Saturday AND Sunday (didn’t find out till Monday) at a meet the teachers event tonight.  People don’t gaf a single solitary fuck past what’s good for them.  Makes me sick, tbh. 

[AUS-97HORN 11895]

8 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

My wife showed me pics on Facebook of a girl tonight that was closely exposed Saturday AND Sunday (didn’t find out till Monday) at a meet the teachers event tonight.  People don’t gaf a single solitary fuck past what’s good for them.  Makes me sick, tbh. 

while I agree there is a high percentage of selfishness at play here, for poorer single parent families, sending your child to school sick is sometimes the difference between keeping your job and loosing it.  Or, getting at least some pay that day.    it totally sucks because the 2 parent families usually have some sort of alternating stay at home responsibility, while the 1 parent family has to make that decision.

Although maybe, maybe the new WFH new normal might mean that a larger percentage of those kids who had normally been sent to school sick, might not have to go to school if sick as long as the parent can WFH.   I realize thats a small percentage of poor folks, but it might make a difference long term. 

[fattyflattie 4639]

20 minutes ago, AUS-97HORN said:

while I agree there is a high percentage of selfishness at play here, for poorer single parent families, sending your child to school sick is sometimes the difference between keeping your job and loosing it. 

I don’t disagree. This family’s combined income is >500k.  This family hasn’t taken it serious since the get go.  Just irritating af to me.  Exposed 2x in consecutive days.  Exposer is pretty damn sick at moment (another friend).    I think most in their fancy hood are smart enough to be vaccinated, but those Kinders aren’t 

Edited August 19, 2021 by fattyflattie

[South Austin 52772]

35 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

I don’t disagree. This family’s combined income is >500k. 

Quite poor by Surly standards.

[fattyflattie 4639]

Just now, South Austin said:

Quite poor by Surly standards.

Well, they’re aggys. Which makes it more infuriating to me.  We know where you’re kid is going to school in 15 years.  Missing meet the teacher in K isn’t going to affect his goal of obtaining an insurance sales degree or whatever the fuck they do there.  

Edited August 19, 2021 by fattyflattie

[fattyflattie 4639]

And auto correct fucked me on *your.  Aggy indeed. 

[Nice Guy Eddie 13569]

17 hours ago, Johnny Sack said:

Delta is going to blow up cases in other states soon as well.  It is that contagious.  Compare Texas and Hawaii (and Hawaii has mask mandates, high mask compliance and one of the highest vaccine rates).  Here is hoping there are enough of the vulnerable that are vaccinated so deaths are less/lower CFR.

 

No disagreement that there are inconsistencies when it comes to COVID actively being spread. Most likely every country/state and situation are different. Perhaps Hawaii is as high as Texas due to being a more population dense state than Texas. Doesn't something like 65% of their population live in the Honolulu metro area?  As Honolulu goes, so does the entire state. Houston and Dallas could be at completely different points in a wave. Texas isn't so monolithic.

However the more likely answer has to do with the vaccine. I don't have more info than the rest of you but I assume the vaccine is less effective in preventing a COVID infection than we had hoped especially with the delta variant.  

On the flip side, there is evidence that the vaccine is good at preventing hospitalization and death.  According to the NY times, HI has 22 out of 100K hospitalized today whereas Texas is at 42. Deaths are at 0.09 and 0.37 for the 2 states. HI may be just as infected as Texas but they don't seem to be suffering like TX. 

Or I could be completely wrong. Maybe HI's hospitalizations and deaths are just delayed a week or two.

Edited August 19, 2021 by Nice Guy Eddie

[BabaYaga 15428]

4 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

However on the flip side, there is evidence that the vaccine is good at preventing hospitalization and death

Which is where the focus needs to be - not on case counts, which seems Sacks whole point.  

[EE2B 1565]

Shit, in the "before times" parents gave kids Tylenol to drop their fever and sent them on to school. A close friend of mine was a middle school principle (now a highschool principle, woo!), and the stories he could tell...

That shit still goes on. I know a lady who used the same sitter we did who would knowingly send her kids to daycare full of tylenol when they were sick. I’d pick my child up in the afternoon and her kid would look like hell all because “mommy had to work”. Mommy worked in daddy’s office answering the phone and damn well could’ve taken off anytime she wanted.

One guy I know was sending his kid to daycare and she ended up having RSV and an ear infection. His excuse was he knew she looked bad but mommy was out of town.

Jackasses. Every single one of them.

[DDD Dad 14437]

1 hour ago, fattyflattie said:

Well, they’re aggys. Which makes it more infuriating to me.  We know where you’re kid is going to school in 15 years.  Missing meet the teacher in K isn’t going to affect his goal of obtaining an insurance sales degree or whatever the fuck they do there.  

 

44 minutes ago, fattyflattie said:

And auto correct fucked me on *your.  Aggy indeed. 

Wait.  So you edited your post but didn't fix "you're"?

[Nice Guy Eddie 13569]

Coming off the turn, we have a new leader. Mississippi has the most new cases per 100K. Wyoming has pushed Texas down a slot as well.  Source: NYT.

 

[babysdaddy 2730]

1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

No disagreement that there are inconsistencies when it comes to COVID actively being spread. Most likely every country/state and situation are different. Perhaps Hawaii is as high as Texas due to being a more population dense state than Texas. Doesn't something like 65% of their population live in the Honolulu metro area?  As Honolulu goes, so does the entire state. Houston and Dallas could be at completely different points in a wave. Texas isn't so monolithic.

However the more likely answer has to do with the vaccine. I don't have more info than the rest of you but I assume the vaccine is less effective in preventing a COVID infection than we had hoped especially with the delta variant.  

On the flip side, there is evidence that the vaccine is good at preventing hospitalization and death.  According to the NY times, HI has 22 out of 100K hospitalized today whereas Texas is at 42. Deaths are at 0.09 and 0.37 for the 2 states. HI may be just as infected as Texas but they don't seem to be suffering like TX. 

Or I could be completely wrong. Maybe HI's hospitalizations and deaths are just delayed a week or two.

google obesity rates of the states to determine why case rates are equivalent but hospitalizations and deaths are different.  Or racial make up which correlates to obesity rates. 

[Johnny Sack 8397]

4 minutes ago, babysdaddy said:

google obesity rates of the states to determine why case rates are equivalent but hospitalizations and deaths are different.  Or racial make up which correlates to obesity rates. 

Vax rates are probably the biggest difference for hospitalization and deaths.

[atomheartbevo 90149]

21 minutes ago, babysdaddy said:

google obesity rates of the states to determine why case rates are equivalent but hospitalizations and deaths are different.  Or racial make up which correlates to obesity rates. 

18 minutes ago, Johnny Sack said:

Vax rates are probably the biggest difference for hospitalization and deaths.

I was going to say whichever states are cranking out the most meth would be near the top, but y'alls factors are easy to prove.

 

[JesusSweatDuck 17893]

22 minutes ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

Coming off the turn, we have a new leader. Mississippi has the most new cases per 100K. Wyoming has pushed Texas down a slot as well.  Source: NYT.

 

Mississippi pulling into first.  Pretty impressive to pass FL

[Mrs Whiggins 13050]

1 hour ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

No disagreement that there are inconsistencies when it comes to COVID actively being spread. Most likely every country/state and situation are different. Perhaps Hawaii is as high as Texas due to being a more population dense state than Texas. Doesn't something like 65% of their population live in the Honolulu metro area?  As Honolulu goes, so does the entire state. Houston and Dallas could be at completely different points in a wave. Texas isn't so monolithic.

However the more likely answer has to do with the vaccine. I don't have more info than the rest of you but I assume the vaccine is less effective in preventing a COVID infection than we had hoped especially with the delta variant.  

On the flip side, there is evidence that the vaccine is good at preventing hospitalization and death.  According to the NY times, HI has 22 out of 100K hospitalized today whereas Texas is at 42. Deaths are at 0.09 and 0.37 for the 2 states. HI may be just as infected as Texas but they don't seem to be suffering like TX. 

Or I could be completely wrong. Maybe HI's hospitalizations and deaths are just delayed a week or two.

With Hawaii, you gotta wonder how many people slipped (perhaps unintentionally) under the radar (unlike that couple that got caught with forged vaccination cards) when traveling--again, affects case counts, but a higher vaccination rate would assist with the rest. Would not take many arrivals to travel around the island. They all go to the same places.

[JimmyJames 12271]

Just looked up Hawaii. Case numbers are almost 4 times higher than they’ve ever been. Averaging only one death per day though. The vaccines work and anyone who doesn’t get it is a straight up dumbass unless your doctor says you can’t get it for health reasons. 

[conVINCEd 21474]

16 minutes ago, JesusSweatDuck said:

Mississippi pulling into first.  Pretty impressive to pass FL

It just means more.

[GreenspointTexas 9883]

Im curious to know the average bmi of all 650,000 US deaths from coronavirus

[conVINCEd 21474]

1 minute ago, GreenspointTexas said:

Im curious to know the average bmi of all 650,000 US deaths from coronavirus

My BILs uncle died last year a few months after he ran a marathon.

[babysdaddy 2730]

11 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

My BILs uncle died last year a few months after he ran a marathon.

....

Edited August 19, 2021 by babysdaddy
was asshole

[F250 28991]

2 hours ago, fattyflattie said:

Well, they’re aggys. Which makes it more infuriating to me.  We know where you’re kid is going to school in 15 years.  Missing meet the teacher in K isn’t going to affect his goal of obtaining an insurance sales degree or whatever the fuck they do there.  

I was talking to some aggy friends yesterday. Their son is in the top 5% of his HS class and we were discussing college. Being polite, I commented "Well, he should already be packing his bags for College Station with those grades. He is a guaranteed admit."

They replied with "Well, we have been thinking and feel that he should have the best opportunities available for him and his future. So, we are open to sending him to tu if he gets accepted." Then they started asking questions about CAP and campus, etc...

These are die hard "Texum Fighting Jimbo gonna when a championship aggy" people. However without saying it, they admitted to the superiority of UT and treated it like they were announcing that their son was coming out of the closet. It was awesome.

[Born to Run 6591]

while I agree there is a high percentage of selfishness at play here, for poorer single parent families, sending your child to school sick is sometimes the difference between keeping your job and loosing it.  Or, getting at least some pay that day.    it totally sucks because the 2 parent families usually have some sort of alternating stay at home responsibility, while the 1 parent family has to make that decision.
Although maybe, maybe the new WFH new normal might mean that a larger percentage of those kids who had normally been sent to school sick, might not have to go to school if sick as long as the parent can WFH.   I realize thats a small percentage of poor folks, but it might make a difference long term. 

TEA didn't make this any easier. There is also the 90% rule. Stay home with a fever 18 days a year and you don't get credit and have to repeat. That includes Dr appointments and any other reason excluding a positive covid test which of course requires a test, then a follow up negative test to go back to school.

[Macanudo 13103]

15 hours ago, StruggleBus said:

Hyperbole much?

I don't think so.   Cases at school are skyrocketing right now.  

[Eskimohorn 5658]

Im curious to know the average bmi of all 650,000 US deaths from coronavirus

What did you post this one year ago? That’s alpha, bro. This is delta.

[JesusSweatDuck 17893]

44 minutes ago, Born to Run said:

5 hours ago, AUS-97HORN said:

while I agree there is a high percentage of selfishness at play here, for poorer single parent families, sending your child to school sick is sometimes the difference between keeping your job and loosing it.  Or, getting at least some pay that day.    it totally sucks because the 2 parent families usually have some sort of alternating stay at home responsibility, while the 1 parent family has to make that decision.
Although maybe, maybe the new WFH new normal might mean that a larger percentage of those kids who had normally been sent to school sick, might not have to go to school if sick as long as the parent can WFH.   I realize thats a small percentage of poor folks, but it might make a difference long term. 

TEA didn't make this any easier. There is also the 90% rule. Stay home with a fever 18 days a year and you don't get credit and have to repeat. That includes Dr appointments and any other reason excluding a positive covid test which of course requires a test, then a follow up negative test to go back to school.

I think your point is a point that's being overlooked.  TEA has basically removed all COVID rules and basically have gone "back to normal."  As a result, quarantining after direct exposure is optional, and you'll receive no virtual learning.  You're just expected to still get your work done.  This means almost no one will quarantine.  Teachers are now expected to use their sick days for when they do have COVID and if they want to quarantine.  Resulting in teachers likely coming to school when infected.

 

This is all just a shit show, created by our shit show govt who is pandering to the dumbest of the group.

[DDD Dad 14437]

43 minutes ago, JesusSweatDuck said:

I think your point is a point that's being overlooked.  TEA has basically removed all COVID rules and basically have gone "back to normal."  As a result, quarantining after direct exposure is optional, and you'll receive no virtual learning.  You're just expected to still get your work done.  This means almost no one will quarantine.  Teachers are now expected to use their sick days for when they do have COVID and if they want to quarantine.  Resulting in teachers likely coming to school when infected.

 

This is all just a shit show, created by our shit show govt who is pandering to the dumbest of the group.

Can we try to save the governmental finger pointing (regardless of which particular official/party/etc) for the CR threads?  kthanxbye 

[BrazilHorn 6668]

2 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

I was going to say whichever states are cranking out the most meth would be near the top, but y'alls factors are easy to prove.

 

Hard to stay super fat on meth. It's states with most Waffle Houses.

[F250 28991]

37 minutes ago, BrazilHorn said:

Hard to stay super fat on meth. It's states with most Waffle Houses.

The meth keeps him from being super fat but he is trying.

 

[JesusSweatDuck 17893]

Updates on stats.  Cases are down from yesterday but still up week over week at 741 (-106, +263).  Hospitalizations remains flat at 618, while ICU admits is down to 221 (-2).  Vent use is up to 153 (+8).  Deaths up to 924

 

source - https://austin.maps.arcgis.com/apps/dashboards/39e4f8d4acb0433baae6d15a931fa984

 

[BrazilHorn 6668]

Another bad day for Travis County 741 cases (up 263 from last week Thursday). Still one short of record for hospitalizations at 618.

Cases still skewing younger overall.

Age Bracket	<1	1 to 9	10 to 19	20 to 29	30 to 39	40 to 49	50 to 59	60 to 69	70 to 79	>80	Total
Cases 8/19 vs 8/18	14	53	76	187	172	104	79	41	8	7	741
% of Daily Change	1.89%	7.15%	10.26%	25.24%	23.21%	14.04%	10.66%	5.53%	1.08%	0.94%
% of Total Cases	0.68%	4.66%	10.76%	25.97%	20.88%	14.79%	10.89%	6.37%	3.06%	1.94%

[fattyflattie 4639]

5 hours ago, DDD Dad said:

 

Wait.  So you edited your post but didn't fix "you're"?

I swear that’s when it fucked it up. Ah, such is life.  Your, you’re, yoor.  It works.  

[victory88 5682]

So wife and I got negative Covid tests.  We're both vaccinated.  We had extreme sore throats and now a dry cough the last 2 weeks.  Half my buddies are sick with the same symptoms.  Not to mention, I run into 2-3 people a day that are coughing while talking to me.  Does the Delta variant result in a covid 19 positive test?  Wonder if I have/had the delta variant or if this is a rough fucking upper respiratory issue we're having.  I work in healthcare so I feel like I generally have a pretty solid immune system being exposed to common colds so frequently, even then...  I'm never sick more than a day or two.  This has been lingering for 2+ weeks now.  

Edited August 19, 2021 by victory88

[utee94 15907]

*yore