An increase in cases around #KCMO was not enough to offset declines elsewhere, and so the statewide 7-day average fell a bit more yesterday. 1/4
Tonight’s @StLouisCovid memorial is for Peggy Grosberg Ross. She was a philanthropist who supported BJC, including a scholarship at the Goldfarb School of Nursing named for the burn nurse who saved her life. Ms. Ross passed away in January at age 90. 2/4 stlouiscovidmemorial.com/peggy-grosberg…
If you missed it last night, my latest River City Data features an excellent interview with @TheCivilLife's Jake Hafner. I hope you take the time to digest his take on business, brewing, and priorities during the pandemic. 3/4 chrisprener.substack.com/p/weekly-covid…
If you want to check on regional trends, disparities data, nursing home data, and hospitalization metrics, please check the website - slu-opengis.github.io/covid_daily_vi….
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The statewide and regional 7-day averages dropped a bit more yesterday, continuing the trend of small changes this week. 1/4
Tonight’s @StLouisCovid memorial is for Lawrence F. Pranger. He was an Army veteran, a grandfather, a Shell Oil Company retiree, and was active in his parish and as coach at St. Francis Xavier School. Mr. Pranger passed away in December at age 82. 2/4 stlouiscovidmemorial.com/lawrence-f-pra…
River City Data’s latest issue is out with a long but really fabulous interview with @TheCivilLife's Jake Hafner. I hope you take the time to read through it - his perspectives on business, brewing, and priorities during a pandemic are so important. 3/4 chrisprener.substack.com/p/weekly-covid…
Our 7-day averages continue to climb - now 4059 new cases per day on average statewide, with all-time highs again in #KansasCity and “outstate.” 1/18
The #StLouis Metro (including IL counties) added ~1969 cases per day on average over the past week - far and away the highest volume of cases we’ve seen here. #KansasCity is also adding more than 1000 cases per day on average. 2/18
Remember, though, that these numbers don’t directly compare to the time series in March/April/May because of poor testing access. They are far more comparable to August/September, when cases were far fewer in number. 3/18
Lots of speculation about the Governor’s announcement this morning. I’ve been lamenting with @TimothyWiemken this AM about (a) how predictable pressures on schools were in May, yet we didn’t plan, and (b) the lack of different policies for elementary vs high school to this point.
For example, some of what we're getting today may be driven by this letter from a group of superintendents calling themselves the "Rural Activists of Northwest Missouri," who are asking for quarantines to be dropped to 5-7 days. (h/t @blythebernhard) kq2.com/content/news/N…
On Monday, we were averaging 3500 new cases statewide. Tonight, that metric is just under 4000. It has doubled in just a few weeks, and hit all-time highs again today. 1/4
I want to highlight the increasing hospitalization trends in #StLouis today as well. The rate at which the 7-day average trends for new in-patients and total in-patients are growing is deeply, deeply worrying. 2/4
Tonight's @StLouisCovid memorial is a bit different - given that it is Veterans Day, I want to take tonight to acknowledge the St. Louis area veterans who served, some in war zones, only to die from COVID-19 here at home. 3/4 stlouiscovidmemorial.com/covid-19-veter…
Last Thursday, I asked rhetorically how high our 7-day averages could go. The answer, so far, is we have not found a ceiling yet. 1/20
We’re adding just shy of 3700 new cases per day on average ☝️, with the highest per capita rates in the “outstate” region. Just a month ago we had never had the 7-day average pass 1700. Now we’re setting all-time highs daily statewide as well as in the “meso” regions. 2/20
At the metro level, #StLouis has surpassed 100,000 cases cumulatively. Our 7-day average was stable at 20 new cases per 100,000 per day on average for much of the fall, and now has tripled to 60 in a relatively short timeframe. Jefferson City’s is nearing 140. 3/20