Check out these stats available from Tennessee state government. For a state population of close to 7 million we now have just 131 ICU beds free. The time to act is now to reduce the spread and encourage vaccination. Pediatric hospitalization in TN
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Rural Tennessee: Carter County
How does a county of just 54,000 people manage to amass 184 covid deaths? That’s over 3,000 deaths per million – one of the highest in the country From the chart below – we can see peak deaths occurred in January at 46. Zero deaths in April and very few in May and June. TheContinueContinue reading “Rural Tennessee: Carter County”
TN COVID: Its a rural problem driven by low vaccination rates
What’s behind Tennessee’s rise to the number 1 COVID hotspot in the country? The data might surprise you, it surprised me. I had thought the rise was consistent across the state. The answer is rural populations. Counties with populations greater than 200,000 have, so far, fared better than those with smaller populations. Marion county hasContinueContinue reading “TN COVID: Its a rural problem driven by low vaccination rates”
Covid lessons from Southern School openings
apple.news/AmZ607ONMT6C9OpOteA71PA Excellent reporting from wsj “In Mississippi, 13,715 students have tested positive for Covid-19 since most schools inaugurated the new academic year in early August, sending more than 20,000 students into quarantine for each of the past three weeks, as of Aug. 31, according to the state health department. In New Mexico, nearly 10% of theContinueContinue reading “Covid lessons from Southern School openings”
TN – leads the country and the world
I attended a great talk last night by a top health official – Dr David Aronoff. He showed a chart showing that if Tennessee were a country it would be the world leader in new COVID cases. He’s 100% right. Here’s the global league table data – notice Israel is #1 at 971 new casesContinueContinue reading “TN – leads the country and the world”
TN – Governor Lee – from Executive Order to number 1 for new COVID cases in 16 days
Gotta hand it to the Governor – he knows how to get things done. From executive order #84 allowing parents to circumvent mask rules of schools to # 1 in the country for new cases per capita took just 16 days. Seriously – where is the accountability. Make your voice heard. Tennessee is now theContinueContinue reading “TN – Governor Lee – from Executive Order to number 1 for new COVID cases in 16 days”
Don’t use Ivermectin for Covid. Get an approved vaccine that over 170 million people have this year
twitter.com/US_FDA/status/1429050070243192839 170 million are fully vaccinated https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#vaccinations_vacc-total-admin-rate-total Check out these stats on Louisiana. Those not fully vaccinated account for 91% of covid patients
Davidson County, TN hits 1,000 COVID deaths. Stop acting like its over – what action are you taking?
Davidson County deaths have passed 1,000 – thats 1 in 700 people.
Tragic story … how many more need to fall victim to the misinformation
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/27/world/texas-anti-mask-organizer-clings-to-life-in-a-battle-with-covid-19.html Notes in the article that he tried the horse medicine to no effect. Why try a horse medicine when multiple covid vaccines have been administered to hundreds of millions of people?
Global Covid Round up – Peru and Indonesia show improvment; Israel makes the case for boosters; US at almost 1000 deaths per day
A round up of COVID data from around the world
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