# Any good news re: COVID-19? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Quarantine Zone\ **Tags:** covid-quarantine\ **Created:** [March 16, 2020, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-news-re-covid-19/849610 "2020-03-16T22:47:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Billy-o](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Billy-o](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy-o)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-news-re-covid-19/849610/161 "2020-04-20T02:20:08Z")
> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > The media concentrate on case counts and deaths, but I’ve always felt that the number of people hospitalized is a better progress metric. Case counts are a function of testing, and deaths are a lagging indicator because . . . people take a while to die. > > Until recently, though, it was hard to track hospitalization because a lot of states weren’t reporting it. Now though, almost all of the larger ones are. And the results for the last week are encouraging. Usage in all of the larger states has peaked and is declining, meaning that more people are being discharged (or alas, dying) than being admitted. > > New York peaked at 18,825 people hospitalized on April 13 and is down to 16,213 today. ICU usage has declined from 5,225 to 5,016. California has declined from 5,236 beds to 4,936; Michigan from 3,986 to 3,634, and so on. > > If this keeps up for another couple of weeks we should see a significant easing of hospital system overload. That’s really great news! Can you give the source for those numbers? I’d like to see how my state (Illinois) is faring on that metric. ---
**Author:** ![Urbanredneck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ea5d25/32.png) [@Urbanredneck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Urbanredneck)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-news-re-covid-19/849610/162 "2020-04-20T03:02:51Z")
> [@Billy-o](#): > > That’s really great news! Can you give the source for those numbers? I’d like to see how my state (Illinois) is faring on that metric. [HERE](https://public.tableau.com/profile/mapper.of.the.day.mod.?fbclid=IwAR3GzkiX9VRVz8jnf3n8acoYXUjbP_xoJPXTrb_0RJc-s3MjEGDMWso5kSs#!/vizhome/covid19_joco_public/Dashboard) it is for my area of Johnson county Kansas. They break the stats down to Hospital beds, ICU Beds, and “Surge beds”. Looks like the hospitals are very busy but their is room in the ICU’s. Its also interesting [HERE](https://public.tableau.com/profile/mapper.of.the.day.mod.?fbclid=IwAR3GzkiX9VRVz8jnf3n8acoYXUjbP_xoJPXTrb_0RJc-s3MjEGDMWso5kSs#!/vizhome/covid19_joco_public/Dashboard)they break down the cases so of 367 positive cases 206 are treated as outpatients (I’m guessing just told to go home and quarantine), 118 as inpatient and of those 48 requiring ICU. They are also pushing more random testing and looking for people possibly exposed like grocery store workers and just did a random of of about 200 of those and are waiting on results. The last time they did a large random test they got around 10% positives. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-news-re-covid-19/849610/163 "2020-04-20T05:02:20Z")
> [@Billy-o](#): > > That’s really great news! Can you give the source for those numbers? I’d like to see how my state (Illinois) is faring on that metric. You can see the static (current) state-by-state numbers [here](https://covidtracking.com/data/state/illinois), under “hospitalized–currently”. Getting the historical numbers is a bit more of a project; you have to go to “our data”, download it “as a spreadsheet” into Excel, and then sort it by state and date. Illinois is showing slight declines–not as much as some other states, but then Illinois was hit a little later and not quite as bad. ---
**Author:** ![Billy-o](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e8c25b/32.png) [@Billy-o](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Billy-o)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-news-re-covid-19/849610/164 "2020-04-20T17:29:57Z")
> [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](#): > > You can see the static (current) state-by-state numbers [here](https://covidtracking.com/data/state/illinois), under “hospitalized–currently”. Getting the historical numbers is a bit more of a project; you have to go to “our data”, download it “as a spreadsheet” into Excel, and then sort it by state and date. Illinois is showing slight declines–not as much as some other states, but then Illinois was hit a little later and not quite as bad. Thanks for that cite! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-news-re-covid-19/849610/165 "2020-04-20T18:41:47Z")
[Facebook will start telling users “that thing you liked is a hoax”](https://www.npr.org/2020/04/16/835579533/did-you-fall-for-a-coronavirus-hoax-facebook-will-let-you-know), if they haven’t already. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-news-re-covid-19/849610/166 "2020-04-20T22:55:07Z")
As I was riding back from dropping the MGB off for a battery conversion, it occurred to me that I can drive it more often since I’m not going to Seattle and I don’t have to do the Car Car Shuffle. I can just park it in the Prius’s spot in the driveway. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [April 20, 2020, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-news-re-covid-19/849610/167 "2020-04-20T23:01:50Z")
Just paid .99 a gallon for gas and it’s suppose to drop further. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 22, 2020, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-news-re-covid-19/849610/168 "2020-04-22T19:53:02Z")
[911 calls for fire dispatch are down.](https://www.arlnow.com/2020/04/22/fire-department-sees-reduction-in-calls-amid-pandemic/) ---
**Author:** ![elucidator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8edcca/32.png) [@elucidator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elucidator)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-news-re-covid-19/849610/169 "2020-04-23T00:19:53Z")
I’m practicing sexual distancing. You’re welcome. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-news-re-covid-19/849610/170 "2020-04-23T15:26:32Z")
I’m wondering if Google is taking advantage of the situation to get relatively unobstructed Street Views. ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-news-re-covid-19/849610/171 "2020-04-23T17:51:19Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > I’m wondering if Google is taking advantage of the situation to get relatively unobstructed Street Views. Great point! ---
**Author:** ![dtilque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d6d6ee/32.png) [@dtilque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dtilque)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2020, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-news-re-covid-19/849610/172 "2020-04-23T17:57:57Z")
I’ve viewed lots and lots of Streetview images in the last couple years and obstruction of the views is just not a problem. But if the cars are out, I’m sure they are getting more miles/day, since there’s lots less traffic. ---
**Author:** ![Heracles](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/heracles/32/487_2.png) [@Heracles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Heracles)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-news-re-covid-19/849610/173 "2020-04-24T11:50:43Z")
The coffee I make at home is waaay better than the one at the office ! ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2020, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-news-re-covid-19/849610/174 "2020-04-24T23:39:48Z")
The annual elementary school dinner for sixth grade students and their parents has been canceled! This is my first year of teaching at the school, but I have absolutely no interest in getting roped into this sort of dinner. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-news-re-covid-19/849610/175 "2020-04-25T00:59:04Z")
> [@TokyoBayer](#): > > The annual elementary school dinner for sixth grade students and their parents has been canceled! This is my first year of teaching at the school, but I have absolutely no interest in getting roped into this sort of dinner. You sure got out of it the hard way. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![TokyoBayer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tokyobayer/32/13989_2.png) [@TokyoBayer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TokyoBayer)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2020, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-news-re-covid-19/849610/176 "2020-04-25T01:20:10Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > You sure got out of it the hard way. :dubious: Are you being sarcastic with anyone else in the thread? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-good-news-re-covid-19/849610.md?page=8)