Coronavirus Coronavirus: In-Iowa General Discussion (Not Limited)
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The problem is for every 10 people that are taking this seriously, 10 people aren't. There were so many college students that flocked to various parts of the United States that are now starting to make their way back into the state.
The test results are likely at least a week old. I don't believe there's many 'next day' turnarounds.
I was told 10 days for results by my Dr. and that was a week ago.
It’s like wayyy overdue for a major eruption though, seriously.
To begin with and extend as needed. That’s what you need to do to control this virus.
Yeah that's an excellent point. We'll likely keep seeing increases in cases as the testing catches up and more people get tested.
Maybe those kids are quarantined now? It's hard to tell what the effect will be.
Most college kids right now are going home to their Gen X parents - not working, or having anything to do in society. My hope would be that they're being quarantined for awhile, but you never know, and you certainly can't trust them.
But there are way more people taking this seriously than not taking it seriously. At least in my community, and from what I can see in general.
And I'll add that I didn't even get tested.
I'm sure it's REALLY hard to keep up but I wish there were data on how many untested 'cases' were told to stay home.
No it's not. It's not old faithful. It has gone millions of years between eruptions and it's only been a little over 600,000 years.
I believe Iowa is still pretty slow in testing right now. Like others have said the numbers we are seeing now are not people that have been tested yesterday but more likely a week a go. The number of people in Iowa that have it right now is likely double or triple what is being reported. I think I saw the trend was it doubles on average every 4 days. or something like that.
I actually think Reynolds has done a pretty decent job with this. She's using data to drive decisions, hasn't overreacted to anything and is letting the experts drive policy.
I'm not sure you can ask for much more out of a governor with unprecedented stuff going on.
I'm not sure you can ask for much more out of a governor with unprecedented stuff going on.
I agree and I'm not one that has generally agreed with her on other policy matters.
She is handling this much differently than other governors and political figures of a similar political persuasion.
Maybe we'll see a huge increase but it looks to me like Iowa is doing a pretty good job of flattening the curve.
But those quarantined kids might be going into homes where their parents are still having to go into work, thus possibly risking someone in their office to get this virus as well.
This isn't even mentioning those people who have it but can't get tested and are still required to go to work unless they test positive. I have multiple people that have expressed their workplace is doing this and mine is doing similar as well. There is someone who just came back today from being sick the entire weekend, was out sick yesterday who has coughed about 20 times and hasn't even bothered covering his cough up. He said he doesn't have any more sick days to use so he has to be here.
A week from now(2 weeks from first steps) and a little further will really tell us if we responded soon enough. Numbers and everything now are from where we were 2 weeks ago. I imagine we could see a spike(possible start of exponential growth) in the next week or so and then hopefully we see it flatten after that from the actions that were taken.
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I'm pretty ignorant with regard to all this so when you say "flatten after that" does that mean that if it does indeed flatten in two weeks; our prophylactic measures can be removed? Can we then go back to work and school?
At what point can we know that going back to work and school won't simply cause a big spike regardless of how long it's been flat?
I wonder how many cases that will be that will never be addressed or identified due to asymptomatic cases. Where the symptoms were marginal enough to basically confuse as a cold or never even recgonize yet people pass them off to others.
Many companies are not yet effected other than cleaning more often and providing hand sanitizers and some bulletin board material. I never realized how flexible the word "essential" is until now
Many companies are not yet effected other than cleaning more often and providing hand sanitizers and some bulletin board material. I never realized how flexible the word "essential" is until now
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