COVID-19 is exploding in Albany, Ga.

[RandySF]

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Michael McDonald
@ElectProject
Damn. What's happening in Albany, Georgia is scary and this could easily be the rest of rural America if we start thinking because New York -- which disproportionately makes up the U.S. cases -- has flattened its curve the rest of the U.S. is now safe
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[dem4decades]

1. Is that the place with the two funerals that caused a bunch of infections?

[Phoenix61]

3. Yes nt

[jimfields33]

4. Good question

Have not heard that.

[LeftInTX]

10. Yes

Poor black families and a funeral. One out of town mourner came from Atlanta area and got sick the night for the funeral. He had exposed many people. This was Feb 29 and he wasn't suspected of Covid because he had not traveled or had any risk factors and this was before they had documented community spread in places like Albany, GA

[uponit7771]

11. Yes, can you imagine the church infection rate

[jimfields33]

2. I hope they stay safe

It’s scary.

[Hoyt]

5. They've been hit hard for several weeks, for some reason. 40 miles from Jimmy Carter.

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[Igel]

6. Funerals.

One person came in from a distance.

Lots of hugging.

Lots of COVID-19.

[Hoyt]

7. Thanks. Was wondering what happened.

[TheBlackAdder]

8. Infected is 1 in 77 people. That's a little higher than the county of New York City, NY.

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Granted there are 8.3M people with over 104K infected, 6,900 deaths in New York City.

But on a percentage scale, there are 91,243 people in Dougherty County, GA. 1,178 infections and 72 deaths.


8,398,748 / 91,243 = 92.04 multiplying factor.

92.04 x 1,178 infected =108,375. The ratio of those infected is higher than NYC's 104,410.

92.04 x 72 deaths = 6,624. The ratio of deaths in that county is slightly less than NYC.

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[KY_EnviroGuy]

9. Medical official see a leveling off in the spread.

I guess these folks started paying attention. Albany is in Dougherty County, GA.......

Dougherty leaders encouraged by positive COVID-19 trends
By Alan Mauldin alan.mauldin@
albanyherald.com
Apr 11, 2020

Link: https://www.albanyherald.com/news/dougherty-leaders-encouraged-by-positive-covid-19-trends/article_a4d1d3f4-7c17-11ea-bbd3-b3a0f39455b6.html

Excerpt:

ALBANY — After weeks of seeing the number of COVID-19 cases and deaths climbing, Phoebe Putney Memorial Hospital may be seeing a leveling off in terms of critically ill patients.

“Over the last week, if you look at the number of people coming in with symptoms and the number we have transferred out, (they) have been consistent over the last week,” Dr. Steven Kitchen, Phoebe’s chief medical officer, said during a Friday news conference. “That number does not seem to be increasing at this point and does appear to be flattening at this point.”

The trend indicates that measures put in place to contain the spread of the coronavirus are working, but it is important to maintain those practices that have led to that point, Kitchen said.

KY...........

[crickets]

12. Over the last few years Albany has been hit hard by tornados, a hurricane, and now this.

Neither article is behind a paywall.

Days After a Funeral in a Georgia Town, Coronavirus ‘Hit Like a Bomb’

Like the Biogen conference in Boston and a 40th birthday party in Westport, Conn., the funeral of Andrew Jerome Mitchell on Feb. 29 will be recorded as what epidemiologists call a “super-spreading event,” in which a small number of people propagate a huge number of infections. [snip]

Whether the initial carrier — the whodunit of infectious disease — matters at all depends on whom you ask. But the timing does matter. For 10 days the virus spread, invisibly, and no one knew it was there. By the time stringent social distancing was introduced, on March 22, it was everywhere.

How a small Georgia city far from New York became one of the worst coronavirus hotspots in the country

And as other small towns around the country brace for outbreaks of their own, Albany's mayor is urging other communities to brace for the impact.

He called for a stronger federal response.

"I think that this crisis needs to be managed more decisively from a federal and state level," Mayor Bo Dorough told WABE, Atlanta's public radio affiliate. "I think we have, at a minimum, the whole country should be in a shelter-in-place position."

I live less than an hour away by car. I could not be more grateful for an information resource like DU. I think I had just enough time to stock up and settle in at home before it really got circulating. The town I live in and the surrounding area are taking this very seriously. All of the neighbors and friends I know are locked down. My town is very quiet and still, and has been so for at least a couple/three weeks. We are still bracing for the worst.

I am glad to hear that cases are starting to level off in Albany.

If I may gently make a request, next time you find a thread where folks start to pop off about how stupid people in red states are, when they crank up a somewhat gleeful conversation about how red states were asking for it and all the blue states should just secede and leave 'em behind like parking lot trash after a concert, could you maybe please wander back out of that thread instead of joining in? Adopt a tumbleweed today. Thanks.

We're all in this together, and we pull for the people in California, New York, Detroit, Chicago, everywhere we hear about people losing family and friends and having a hard time. It will eventually get better, but *sigh* there's a fair amount of worse coming along before the better gets here. We'll get through it together.

The first person who starts singing Kumbaya get a serious timeout though. That's just too much.