That's kinda how the headline ran.. You think, "WOW, COVID is really out of control in Atlanta". But then you get into the details buried somewhere deep in the article and it turns out that the hospitals are filling up with victims of assaults from the assorted violence and riots that some claim are not happening here.
Tim could you post a link to the article? TIA
Here is an article. I can't find the specific one I read earlier. The headline seems to indict the Coronavirus, but in reading the article, you find the problem predates the virus.
Coronavirus Pandemic: Hospitalizations
By
Willoughby Mariano, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Maybe this is what Tim was referring to:
"Emory Health Care’s number COVID-19 patients tripled in two weeks. Grady Health System broke its prior record for COVID-19 patients Wednesday, all while it copes with the highest number of trauma cases in its history, its administrators said."
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Optimism and worry
"While the number of new COVID-19 cases has reached record levels, there are some reasons to be optimistic that they won’t overwhelm Georgia hospitals. Industry-wide changes mean hospitals are more accustomed to running with fewer beds than they did a generation ago, experts said. The early months of the pandemic gave them practice at re-purposing beds, staff and equipment to devote to COVID-19 patients.
Since then, certain drugs have been shown to reduce the chances of critical symptoms or death, although these medicines are in short supply, noted Dr. Stephen Thacker, associate chief medical officer for Memorial Health in Savannah. The coastal hospital reached an all-time high for COVID-19 patients on Wednesday with 57. Savannah’s mayor mandated wearing masks late last month, but many of Memorial’s patients come from outside the city, Dr. Thacker said.
This new wave of patients is younger, which means they’re less likely to have severe diabetes, cardiovascular disease, obesity and other conditions that make them more likely to need critical care or die, experts said. From April to June, hospitalizations in Georgia for patients with the virus between the ages of 18 and 29 rose 34% while plummeting 61% for people over 50, according to Georgia Department of Pubic Health data."
This is the main factor that has caused the new cases to spike much higher over the last month in GA..........Rayshard Brooks protests.
https://www.marketforum.com/forum/topic/55092/
Re: Re: Re: COVID data/graphs #5 July 4th
By metmike - July 11, 2020, 12:56 p.m.
Tim started a thread on GA earlier, which caused me to look up their stats.............it shows an overwhelming profound LEGIT link to the big increase in protesting NO link to reopening.
How do we know that?
GA was the very first state to re open in late April, with much criticism, even from President Trump for opening up TOO SOON.
See the graph below: https://coronavirus.1point3acres.com/en
New cases actually went down more in May and were steady in early June, despite testing doubling(so the real rates were much lower for over 6 weeks after reopening, then suddenly during the 2nd half of June, rates tripled.
What the heck could have caused that?
Rayshard Brooks was killed in Atlanta on June 14th and the MASSIVE protesting began immediately and has continued.
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By Dakin Andone, Natasha Chen and Kevin Conlon, CNN
Updated 5:58 PM ET, Fri May 15, 2020
https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/15/business/georgia-reopening-3-weeks-later/index.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-53047282