Councilman Swetlik is demonstrating his backlit couch.
Oh what fun we have in virtual meetings.
144 hospitalized to date
297 recovered
54 deaths
224 total cases in LTCF
But the spread is "slowly" decreasing, Zayach says.
BoCo has done 4,503 tests to date.
44.3% of COVID cases
42.2% of hospitalizations
16.7% of deaths
"Bc this is a novel virus, we're still learning about the efficacy of (this) testing."
44 patients admitted in the last 8 weeks, usually 2-4 at a time.
"We have significant capacity if there is a significant surge" in COVID cases at BCH, he repeats. All BoCo's hospitals "have significant capacity at this point."
A long answer and felt like a bit of a dodge. Young repeating her question.
Urbina: "That is correct. That is really our plan ... we couldn't offer that" before bc tests required a doctor's note.
Urbina: "You can't squeeze blood out of a turnip. Even tho feds say they are available, those tests are trickling in."
Keidan: We were doing 30 tests a day. Now we're prepared to do 250 tests per day.
Target is 500. "I think we're pretty close to getting there."
Clinic in Ned is now doing testing, he says.
"That's the minimum, not the maximum. ... If we can do more testing and expand, we would like to do that as tests become available."
Urbina: "I think we're going to rely heavily on healthcare systems."
Urbina: Yes. That's the only available test for if you have an active disease. As antibody testing becomes available, we can add to that.
Urbina: No
Keidan: We've done a couple hundred. Most we expected to be positive were positive.
"We would love to test as many ppl as would want to be tested."
@threadreaderapp please unroll. Thank you!