COVID-19: April 6, 2020

COVID-19: April 6, 2020

Local impact:

  • At today’s briefing, the Governor said the numbers we are paying attention to are not so much testing numbers, but hospital cases and deaths.”

  • While all numbers still high we’re starting to see real signs these mitigation measures are starting to yield real results.

  • So I looked for data on hospital admissions and found a chart:

https://www.nola.com/html_d62500f4-6fcc-11ea-b89f-57d19586a9b4.html

  • This looks much better than the increasing case count.
    Put another way, new hospitalizations by day for the last ten days: 154, 200, 31, 197, 143, 141, 68, 19, 77, 6

  • That is a definite downward trend in hospitalizations. Good to see.

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  • Gov says the reported deaths each day are not always in the 24-hour time frame. He says, in some cases, people die days prior to receiving test results.

  • Maybe thanks to that kind of unevenly reported data, I am not seeing deaths plateau in the same way.

  • New deaths by day for the last ten days: 18, 14, 34, 54, 34, 37, 60, 39, 68, 35

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