We made the Top 5 (eh, sort of)

[gary_in_neenah]

Nice to see the Madison Media and the New York Times are looking out for us. Just the same, our local TV is gloom and doom as well. I find it interesting that the media never names these County and City Health Officials. In the mean time, I'm gonna go out and rake some leaves. I'll be sure to wear my mask as the trees may have the Corona too.

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - The Oshkosh-Neenah metropolitan area climbed all of the way to the top of the New York Times list of Americans cities being hit the hardest by the COVID-19 outbreak, according to an update from the Winnebago Co. Health Dept.

In noting that ignominious distinction, county health officials put it bluntly: “We have uncontrolled spread that is threatening all aspects of community life. Reliance on voluntary compliance to slow the spread of disease has, to date, failed.”

The health department also noted it had nearly twice as many confirmed cases reported in September alone than it did in the prior six months of the outbreak.

Since that update, the region has slipped to the second spot, but that only highlights a larger problem for Wisconsin. Cities in the Badger State holds that number two slot as well as the number three spot as well as the number four position. As of Friday afternoon, the rankings stood at:

1.) Palestine, Texas

2.) Oshkosh-Neenah, Wisconsin

3.) Green Bay, Wisconsin

4.) Appleton, Wisconsin

5.) Pine Bluff, Arkansas

 

[wirev]

Stay safe, Gary.

 

[Midwest Player]

Nice to see the Madison Media and the New York Times are looking out for us. Just the same, our local TV is gloom and doom as well. I find it interesting that the media never names these County and City Health Officials. In the mean time, I'm gonna go out and rake some leaves. I'll be sure to wear my mask as the trees may have the Corona too.

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - The Oshkosh-Neenah metropolitan area climbed all of the way to the top of the New York Times list of Americans cities being hit the hardest by the COVID-19 outbreak, according to an update from the Winnebago Co. Health Dept.

In noting that ignominious distinction, county health officials put it bluntly: “We have uncontrolled spread that is threatening all aspects of community life. Reliance on voluntary compliance to slow the spread of disease has, to date, failed.”

The health department also noted it had nearly twice as many confirmed cases reported in September alone than it did in the prior six months of the outbreak.

Since that update, the region has slipped to the second spot, but that only highlights a larger problem for Wisconsin. Cities in the Badger State holds that number two slot as well as the number three spot as well as the number four position. As of Friday afternoon, the rankings stood at:

1.) Palestine, Texas

2.) Oshkosh-Neenah, Wisconsin

3.) Green Bay, Wisconsin

4.) Appleton, Wisconsin

5.) Pine Bluff, Arkansas

University of WI-Oshkosh is a party school. At least it was when I was in college. Made a trip down there to find some girls back in my college days.

It appears the explosion in Houghton county was due to Mich Tech and today Houghton had a free drive in clinic to get a covid test. I heard it was a zoo as so many folks showed up. Hundreds of cars ahead of somebody I know who was planning on getting a test, but they were so disgusted after seeing the line, they left without ever getting a test.

 

[gary_in_neenah]

Stay safe, Gary.

Thanks Rev, you too. Maybe I've been lucky or maybe I already had it. Neighbor lady tested positive back in June, she never got sick and none of her family caught it either. Makes you wonder....

 

[Skylar]

We've had 3 employees at work whose wives tested positive after displaying symptoms, NONE OF THE HUSBANDS TESTED POSITIVE. So, how contagious is it?

 

[timo]

Same here. 14 year old daughter tested positive. Wife and I got tested Saturday got negative results back today. Don’t mean I won’t get symptoms this week. Technically I’m supposed to quarantine for 14 days. That ain’t happening. Work said if u want to come back you’re welcome too. I’ll be there Monday.


QUOTE=Skylar;498216]We've had 3 employees at work whose wives tested positive after displaying symptoms, NONE OF THE HUSBANDS TESTED POSITIVE. So, how contagious is it?[/QUOTE]

 

[snomoman]

We've had 3 employees at work whose wives tested positive after displaying symptoms, NONE OF THE HUSBANDS TESTED POSITIVE. So, how contagious is it?

Not contagious enough to “propagate” is the reason... I guess ...LOL

 

[kevinj]

Wisconsin state labs are using 45 cycles when CDC guidelines says max of 31-33 cycles. Over cycling a test will more often than not produce a false positive. Once you get beyond 35 cycles, even if you do have it, you are probably NOT contagious. At that level it would be like anything else floating around in your body right now.

 

[pacer]

45 cycles is crazy. They say at 50 cycles most of the world population would test positive for the coronavirus. It is no wonder why Wisconsin is getting so many positive results.

 

[acase27]

Wisconsin state labs are using 45 cycles when CDC guidelines says max of 31-33 cycles. Over cycling a test will more often than not produce a false positive. Once you get beyond 35 cycles, even if you do have it, you are probably NOT contagious. At that level it would be like anything else floating around in your body right now.

Do you have a source for this? I saw an article from an epidemiologist at Harvard that said he would set the limit to 30 cycles, or even less. Using 30 cycles the genetic traces would have to be 100 to 1,000 fold higher than a test that detects them at 40 cycles.

From the same article, the doctor (Dr. Michael Mina if anyone is interested) noted that 85 to 90 percent of people in Massachusetts that tested positive in July with a cycle threshold of 40 would not have tested positive if the cycle threshold was 30. 85 to 90 percent!

Seems they've found a way to find a lot of COVID positive tests!

 

[euphoric1]

Do you have a source for this? I saw an article from an epidemiologist at Harvard that said he would set the limit to 30 cycles, or even less. Using 30 cycles the genetic traces would have to be 100 to 1,000 fold higher than a test that detects them at 40 cycles.

From the same article, the doctor (Dr. Michael Mina if anyone is interested) noted that 85 to 90 percent of people in Massachusetts that tested positive in July with a cycle threshold of 40 would not have tested positive if the cycle threshold was 30. 85 to 90 percent!

Seems they've found a way to find a lot of COVID positive tests!

covid has become the new profit base in the health care system we have, I forget the actual numbers but the money a hospital receives for a positive diagnosis and whet they get if patient needs a ventilator is astronomical, not to mention you have to fuel the fear mongering fire, how do we achieve both.... figure out how to boost the numbers.

 

[Pit Grunt]

Prison has over 500 cases. 2000 inmates there...not good.. This is in Oshkosh.

 

[kevinj]

Do you have a source for this?

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.html

That story will get into it well enough.