THURSDAY #COVID19Colorado update

Headline: "While they're still at manageable levels. Colorado's hospitalizations hit highest mark since July 20"

COVID+ only:
Today: 256
Last week: 200

256 is highest count since 7/20

#9news
POSITIVITY:

Today: 3.66%
(It's continuing to slowly creep up)
Here's what needs to be watched

CASES

(they're not going down like in the past)

Today (7 day): 593

This is elevated, folks. Look closely at what I've circled.
Also...

Denver now moves into "very high" one week cumulative incidence rate. >100

(along with 7 other counties)
What's it all mean?

The steep declines we've seen in the past with "waves" have yet to materialize this time (note red circles)

Essentially, we're staying at an elevated level of cases. Ideally this would go down soon.

Hospitalizations are creeping up, not fast, but still up
Bottom line...

Still not time to panic.

All of this remains very manageable.

BUT...

I'll feel more comfortable if this starts to turn the other way soon.

Take care,

Peace.
ps...

you're likely to hear in the next few days that "Colorado breaks record for cases"

While, technically, that will be true... it would be journalistic malpractice to say it without the context of what's taking place with testing.

We're doing A LOT of testing right now

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9 Oct
🤓THREAD

I wanna walk you through a big shift that's coming to the world of the drug #Remdesivir

@AnushaRoy9News will have more on this on @nexton9news today

In the meantime, let's talk about the drug. CO hospitals have, for weeks, been using supplies given to them by US govt
Basically, in a fairly large study, the drug shortened recovery time for #COVID19 by four days.

Colorado hospitals started receiving the drug in relatively large numbers back in May

statnews.com/2020/06/29/gil…
In June, the state reported more distribution.

Here's what the hospitals got:

(one patient often received 5 vials) Image
Read 10 tweets
7 Oct
WEDNESDAY #COVID19Colorado data in...

Headline: "Cases remain elevated and not declining like you'd want to see. At least hospitalizations didn't jump again"

HOSPITALIZATIONS
Covid+ Patients ONLY"

Today: 244 (down 4 from yesterday)
Last week: 178

#9news
POSITIVITY:

(inching up again... slowly)

7 day average:
TODAY: 3.58%
CASES

Cases are going down... clearly... but not quickly like during the previous two climbs.

That's a bit concerning I am certain .
Read 7 tweets
6 Oct
TUESDAY #COVID19Colorado update

Headline: "Hospitalizations haven't been this high since July. Cases declining, yet remain elevated."

HOSPITALIZATIONS
(Covid + ONLY):

Today: 246
Last week: 174

Yeah, this will need to be watched closely. Highest count since 7/28

#9news Image
Now, of course, this is still low when compared to April. (See big hill on left side of screen)

But... still should be watched.

What about POSITIVITY?

Today: (7-day average): 3.48% Image
CASES

Something that's pretty noticeable today (I highlighted with my fancy red marker)

We are declining in case counts right now, but at a slower rate than what happened back in late July.

What's that mean? We still have an elevated level of cases. Image
Read 6 tweets
8 Sep
The sheer volume of reporters/newspapers/tv stations that have unquestioningly accepted the results of the #SturgisRally study is... well... disappointing

There are some assumptions in it that could very well be flawed. ($46K per case for example)

I looked at CO data...
(more)
Study specifically references Jefferson, Weld, and Adams counties where 1.) lots of residents went to Sturgis and 2.)saw a notable increase in COVID cases.

So, I looked at each county's data...

Adams, for example, experienced NO marked increase.

tchd.org/823/Case-Updat…
Jefferson County did see a small bump,... but it didn't sustain itself

jeffco.us/4007/COVID-19-…
Read 9 tweets
26 Aug
WEDNESDAY #COVID19Colorado numbers are in...

HEADLINE: "Yeah. I'm getting boring. But the numbers aren't budging much."

Let's start with HOSPITALIZATIONS

8/26: 146 COVID+ patients (+9 from yesterday)
8/19: 151

COVID+ & PUI
8/26: 253 (+10 from yesterday)
8/19: 262

#9news
So, yes, small increase day to day...

but, like I always say, day-to-day is a bad metric

Safe to say, we still appear to be in what I like to call Phase FOUR
(see my "artwork" below)
Now let's look at POSITIVITY (Red) and TESTING (green and yellow)

As of now, 2.52%
One week ago... 3.06%
(that's good)

Testing hovering around 7k
(That's relatively low)
Read 6 tweets
14 Aug
THREAD

I'd like to take a moment to talk about the death of Cannon Hinnant

He's the 5 yr old from Wilson, NC, murdered by neighbor 8/9

You might have seen his name trending here on Twitter. #CannonHinnant

Maybe you wondered why it hasn't gotten more coverage. I wondered too Image
Let's start out by saying, ALL murders are tragic and horrible

Should we be giving the story more attention? Possibly

But then again, in the last month, by my count, Cannon is one of at least 22 children under the age of 7 to be fatally shot.

I'd guess you know nothing of them
One month ago... Kamila Patterson, 2, was shot and killed in Lorain, Ohio.

Police captain called it "an unfortunate tragedy"

"person of interest" is a 30-year old Image
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