All right, everyone! We all ready for a good old-fashioned Saturday afternoon tweeter thread about coronavirus testing in upstate New York? Here we go!
1/? Remember when there were barely any tests and the criteria for getting one were really strict and forced doctors and patients into tough choices? wxxinews.org/post/who-gets-…
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Hi! Today Monroe County public health commissioner @DrMikeMendoza took some time to talk with me about all kinds of things connected to COVID-19 in and around Rochester, NY. You can watch the whole thing (and read the write-up) here: wxxinews.org/post/epidemic-…
1/? But I want to highlight some of the most important things that I think I learned in this interview.
Starting with:
"We do still have a fair bit of this in our control," Mendoza said.
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Monroe County public health commissioner @DrMikeMendoza starting news conference now, says we need to move conversation away from positive COVID-19 tests (those are guaranteed to be an undercount) and toward a focus on hospitalization and ICU numbers. There are five people being treated for COVID-19 in an ICU in Monroe County right now, Mendoza says.

Here's some behind-the-scenes "#reportersnotebook" on this story @WXXINews published Friday on cars parking in @CityRochesterNY's bike lanes.
wxxinews.org/post/rochester…
(I'm the "a reporter" who rode around on a bike with a camera strapped to the front for eight weeks.)
1/? First, let's do the numbers. (heh. h/t @Marketplace)
- Every local trip I made for those 8 weeks (except to/from the airport) I went by bike.
- I rode about 300 miles.
- I saw more than 200 different cars parked in bike lanes. (>250 total, incl. those spotted more than once.)
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