I wonder how well cases are getting counted and reported.

In just the past week I've encountered several people in my neighborhood reporting Covid-19 cases and one death. One woman reported a friend from a nearby county, probably in their 60s, recently died from Covid-19. Then she said an elderly relative is just now getting discharged after having a bad case. Another person reported their daughter living near Nashville has a bad case, after returning home from a trip. Finally, a local couple both had Covid-19 a couple of weeks ago. This couple has had Covid-19 more than once. They don't care.

Be careful out there. Get vaccinated.

Heard anything about the vaccine Novavax?

Exactly the thing we didn't want to happen has started happening. Our last covid surge bottomed at right around fifty hospitalizations. Based on system failure incidents, our medical infrastructure begins failing at around 50-60 excess hospitalizations from covid and infectious diseases. This weeks hospitalization number sits at 62. We will probably be short ambulances from here until this surge ends, we can't staff up in time for this new variants surge. Our spike in deaths could be because of counting back-ups, but the hospitalization number is the number that affects whether or not our system goes to capacity. Deaths should be expected to rise and remain at nationally leading numbers, as has been the norm with our covid response, one of the worst in the world. Actions have consequences. [] Get vaccinatted and be careful out there.

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Numbers could be higher also because rural hospitals have closed and Knox County hospitals are taking care of a lot of folks from other counties.

It appears we will have two different variants gaining strength this holiday, the vaccine being effective against at least one of them.

There is good news for geezers though.Ut today announced an emergency facilities expansion that sounds like a really good needed idea. As long as we can keep Glenn Jacobs out of that power structure and decision making process, we may actually be able to turn our local public health and emergency response systems around once he leaves office. Politicians who only seek political gain while destroying the communities they have taken over have no business in office.

The People's CDC, as well as Knox County and Dane County Wisconsin infectious disease dashboards (actually Knox County does not have an infectious disease dashboard, which is really a pretty critical tool for a parent or adult child to determine immediate community risk for an immunocompromised child or parent in their care). I'll review , link and give my analysis what these three sources are telling us. I would ask that any other covid writers actively following this outbreak please post here as well. It's time to get past egos and political aspirations and get back to rebuilding our medical infrastructure to serve this community.