Coronavirus good Uplifting and hopeful news only

[Anonymous]

Local great news keep marching on.....:

MARYLAND.. just in:


Maryland’s COVID-19 Positivity Rate Drops to 9.5%, Hospitalizations At Lowest Level In 50 Days

Statewide Positivity Rate Has Dropped Nearly 65% From Its Peak

Montgomery and Prince George’s Trends Continue to Match Statewide Decline

Governor Larry Hogan today announced that Maryland’s COVID-19 positivity rate has dropped to 9.5%—below 10% for the first time since late March—and total current hospitalizations have fallen to their lowest level since April 14.


PERCENT POSITIVE TESTING IN MARYLAND
Rolling 7 day average
Data reported as of 06/03/20 from the data through 06/02/20




Source:
https://governor.maryland.gov/2020/06/03/marylands-covid-19-positivity-rate-drops-to-9-5-hospitalizations-at-lowest-level-in-50-days/

[Anonymous]

Close up on Montgomery County and PG County that were heavily affected by the Virus.

Graphs for those look so much better then a while ago

[Anonymous]

You can say this again:

The positivity rate in Prince George’s County has dropped by more than 66%, from a high of 41.96% to a current rate of 14.1%. Montgomery County has dropped by more than 62%, from a high of 32.64% to a current rate of 12.3%.

Yey!

[Anonymous]

To all Marylanders with love!

[Anonymous]

Reporting on Virginia:


Indicators show downward trends in Virginia COVID-19 cases and percentage of positive tests

While total cases continue to increase, data from the VDH coronavirus dashboard show the seven-day average for confirmed and probable cases dropped in late May.

Also, the percentage of positive results from COVID-19 testing is down. The seven-day average for percent of positive test results was at 10.1% as of Tuesday, which is the most recent figure provided by VDH. That's down from a peak of 22.2% on April 19.

[Anonymous]

Jun 05, 2020 | 1:00 PM

Positive Coronavirus Test Rate Dropping Steadily In Virginia

https://patch.com/virginia/fairfaxcity/positive-coronavirus-test-rate-dropping-steadily-virginia

[Anonymous]

To all Virginians with love ..

[Anonymous]

And to all in DC!

[Anonymous]

Friday, June 5: Good news in a nutshell..


DC
The District will begin offering free walk-up coronavirus testing at firehouses from 4-8 p.m.
The trend for new cases has mostly been flat since reopening began.
On Friday, the District reported 79 new cases of the coronavirus and 0 new deaths, bringing its totals to 9,199 and 475, respectively.



MARYLAND
Maryland continues to see a flat trend in new coronavirus cases, along with a gradual decline in coronavirus deaths.


VIRGINIA
Virginia’s 7-day average for new cases has now been declining for six days straight. That’s the longest sustained decline since the pandemic began.
Virginia’s 7-day average for coronavirus deaths has dropped precipitously over the past 11 days. It’s now down to where it was in mid-April.

[Anonymous]

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/05/business/jobs-report-stock-market-coronavirus.html

Stocks Rally After Unexpected Drop in U.S. Unemployment: Live Updates
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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Friday, June 5: Good news in a nutshell..


DC
The District will begin offering free walk-up coronavirus testing at firehouses from 4-8 p.m.
The trend for new cases has mostly been flat since reopening began.
On Friday, the District reported 79 new cases of the coronavirus and 0 new deaths, bringing its totals to 9,199 and 475, respectively.



MARYLAND
Maryland continues to see a flat trend in new coronavirus cases, along with a gradual decline in coronavirus deaths.


VIRGINIA
Virginia’s 7-day average for new cases has now been declining for six days straight. That’s the longest sustained decline since the pandemic began.
Virginia’s 7-day average for coronavirus deaths has dropped precipitously over the past 11 days. It’s now down to where it was in mid-April.

How is the trend flat in MD if we have over 900 new cases every day? It's very confusing!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To all Marylanders with love!

This is the most adorable thing!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Friday, June 5: Good news in a nutshell..


DC
The District will begin offering free walk-up coronavirus testing at firehouses from 4-8 p.m.
The trend for new cases has mostly been flat since reopening began.
On Friday, the District reported 79 new cases of the coronavirus and 0 new deaths, bringing its totals to 9,199 and 475, respectively.



MARYLAND
Maryland continues to see a flat trend in new coronavirus cases, along with a gradual decline in coronavirus deaths.


VIRGINIA
Virginia’s 7-day average for new cases has now been declining for six days straight. That’s the longest sustained decline since the pandemic began.
Virginia’s 7-day average for coronavirus deaths has dropped precipitously over the past 11 days. It’s now down to where it was in mid-April.

How is the trend flat in MD if we have over 900 new cases every day? It's very confusing!

Case can mean just a positive test without any symptoms whatsoever. It can also be false positive as they only test once and as you know, no test brand 100% error proof. Margin error is quite substantial.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:In Scandinavia things are looking good too..

Norway never barely passed 8000 cases in total and now is down to a baker's dozen (give or take one).





And I know you are asking and what about Sweden since the two countries implemented entirely different approach, for those who did not follow -
Norway locked down, Sweden never did. Keep in mind that the Sweden is almost exactly double the population of Noraway
Sweden - 10.23M
Norway - 5.3M

You be the judge.

Sweden's daily deaths are also falling noticeably. Everyone is following the same arch regardless of the severity of the shutdowns.

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/sweden/

All this reopenings only brings the rest of the world to Sweden's approach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Friday, June 5: Good news in a nutshell..


DC
The District will begin offering free walk-up coronavirus testing at firehouses from 4-8 p.m.
The trend for new cases has mostly been flat since reopening began.
On Friday, the District reported 79 new cases of the coronavirus and 0 new deaths, bringing its totals to 9,199 and 475, respectively.



MARYLAND
Maryland continues to see a flat trend in new coronavirus cases, along with a gradual decline in coronavirus deaths.


VIRGINIA
Virginia’s 7-day average for new cases has now been declining for six days straight. That’s the longest sustained decline since the pandemic began.
Virginia’s 7-day average for coronavirus deaths has dropped precipitously over the past 11 days. It’s now down to where it was in mid-April.

How is the trend flat in MD if we have over 900 new cases every day? It's very confusing!

More testing = more cases that are found and identified. It’s a good thing. It can show where the cases are concentrated and health authorities can keep closer tabs on those areas. That’s why raw number of cases isn’t used as a metric - we can’t compare to even a month ago when testing wasn’t so widely available. Now you can go to a test site or CVS and get a swab and have results in a few days. In early May we could test a few hundred people a day at most and they were all people with symptoms, so the percent positive rate was pretty high. Now we can test people with only vague symptoms or who are just worried about a possible exposure, so the raw number of cases identified is going up, but the positive percentage is going down.