The best I’ve seen done in Maryland is number of cases in each zip code. Otherwise we get total numbers and they get broken down by age group, race and sex. It’s pretty.much generic. The only telling number was when the nursing home deaths were broken out of the data. They only.uodate those figures every week or so though. Pretty inadequate.
I have never missed an election. There is an election June 2 (postponed from April 7.). There is one question on the ballot. In my state fear of getting Covid-19 is not a valid reason for absentee voting. I am torn. It’s show up at the polls or don’t vote.
Local online paper here…updates the numbers for this county daily, as well as by town.
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As it is a respiratory virus, I would think sushi would likely be safe from covid.
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https://www.gastrojournal.org/article/S0016-5085(20)30282-1/fulltext
https://www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdisease/covid19/85315
I cannot imagine that sushi is worth the reality that the sushi maker breathes plenty of droplets on their product. Is it viable? Maybe? Is it worth it? Nah.
We get information by county, but it’s the county the hospital is located in vs where patients live. We also get breakdown by town. No additional information. I assumed it was HIPAA laws that kept them from reporting anything more specific. I do know a few towns from me there was an assisted living or nursing home with several cases.
Our County (pop 3.2m) Health Director only publishes cases daily per city/town, not deaths per city/town and definitely not zip code. Deaths are published as a county-wide total, and demographic breakdowns are provided (age brackets, sex, race, ethnicity). No deaths under 25 so far. Approx. half of deaths are in senior living facilities.
For not publishing deaths per city, she claims its for privacy. But they she added that several mayors are concerned about too much transparency (for privacy reasons). yeah, right.
@roycroftmom, I live in Wisconsin. Initially, the state Department of Health Services did not name long-term care facilities where residents or staff (or both) had tested positive. The DHS finally started doing so about two weeks ago. See this article: https://www.nbc15.com/content/news/DHS-releases-names-of-nursing-homes-with-COVID-19-infections-in-Wisconsin-570444641.html. IMO, the long-term care facilities probably asked the DHS to provide anonymity but were eventually outweighed by the voices of residents’ families and long-term care facilities with no cases.
So you do not find out the resolution of each case, just the aggregate numbers of deaths? You don’t know which victims recovered or how long it took them or who had to be hospitalized? Without names, if course, but it does help give a bigger picture.
Everyone in NYS received an application last week for absentee ballot. Each county sent out their own applications. My county’s application already had “temporary illness” checked off. But I know another county next to mine didn’t and no explanation came with the form., either. No idea why they all wouldn’t all be the same.
For school and library budget vote, my town is sending every registered voter an absentee ballot. No application necessary. We are supposed to get our ballot this week.
If voters are turned away for not wearing a mask, you can expect a court challenge.
For the record, I’m pro-mask. Just anticipating the consequences of interfering with the right to vote.
Also wondering whether the mask orders have the same weight as a law. Is the prohibition against public nudity a law?
Hmmm. You can “ force” them to wear clothes to cover genitalia though right? Im pretty sure that a Court would uphold that rule. So I’m not sure why people can’t be forced to wear masks.
Public nudity is a subject of law in all states. The mask orders, so far, have been executive orders an in my state.
I agree that you’re going to get a challenge. I think many courts would reject that challenge. Governors emergency orders do carry the force of law so long as the governors acted within their authority in enacting that order.
No one would be denied the right to vote. We have curbside voting.
My guess is the state would need to supply a mask, verify that there is no ADA issue with mask wearing, and offer an alternative like ballot brought curbside, before denying the right to vote.
The nudity issue is a bit off topic because the action is illegal outside as Well as inside the voting location.
NPR put out a very useful set of guidelines to help each individual decide which summer activities are within their personal comfort zone, and which are risky. https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2020/05/23/861325631/from-camping-to-dining-out-heres-how-experts-rate-the-risks-of-14-summer-activit
I have a friend who went to lunch in the Gaslamp district downtown with a friend of hers today. She said the booth was so large they could sit six feet apart, there was a plexiglass shield between their booth and the next, and the staff was masked.
I have another friend who is thinking of driving to Florida from San Diego with a friend of hers to visit their mothers out of guilt, not a specific need to help. She was getting a group opinion during a Zoom happy hour, then mentioned she would be bringing along her dog. I said she would have to find hotels that take pets, and she said she would just sneak him in because he doesn’t bark much. Arggh. Fine, let her take the risk, and her little dog too.
Here is Illinois if anyone is interested in poking around:
http://dph.illinois.gov/covid19
Stats can be found by zip code or county.
There is a bar graph with the option to show Confirmed Cases, Tested, and Deaths.
The vast majority of confirmed cases are from age 20 to age 59.
The deaths sharply rise in those over 80. It’s quite a visual in the bar graph.
The Illinois DPH has the break down by gender and race as well.
Here is the link for long term care facilities:
http://dph.illinois.gov/covid19/long-term-care-facility-outbreaks-covid-19
From the site, 2402 deaths out of 4884 occurred in long term care facilities. 
IDPH is displaying a “Recovery Rate” of 92%
I work for a health system. Masks are required for entry into all of our hospitals and health centers. If you don’t have one, they will give you one. We are a big academic medical center and I do not think we have had issues with enforcement.
Thanks, I wasn’t sure. Of course, not all governors have issued mask orders, some just recommend them (incl CA) and some have neither. And then, there may be local requirements that have to be considered, as well.
Just so we are clear. Any potential customer that comes into a private business and pretty much carries on however they feel, the business should keep there mouth shut, even if it means losing their business license because their customers are violating public health laws. Really?
My wife’s grandfather ran a liquor store in a rough area of Highland Park for 35 years. I’m pretty sure he would say that asking customers to wear masks and any repercussions was the least of his worries.
There are no roving bandits of mask less jerks assaulting hapless teenagers on a regular basis. And then you have the gumption to claim the media is sensationalizing the CV-19 pandemic.
This sub topic is much ado about nothing…carry on…