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In reply to the discussion: So far, no spike in coronavirus in places reopening, U.S. health secretary says [View all]DallasNE
(7,404 posts)Something about the reporting results in an ebb and flow so you need a couple of weeks data to see anything. In Georgia, for instance, the last bottom was higher than the previous bottom. The next bottom should be 4-5 days away. You can't tell anything from a single data point and the increase was less that what you would term a "spike" anyway. Plus, it takes about a month for an actual spike to take place. But spikes aren't statewide events anyway. Take Texas. What you want to look at is a place like Galveston and South Padre, where the popular beaches are. What we are seeing today is from around Amarillo and that is meatpacking related. Just premature to measure spikes.
And speaking of both meatpacking and nursing homes, why are they just now getting regulations out. Those were known problem areas and waiting for them to explode and then addressing the issue never made any sense. That was a colossal failure of leadership at the federal level in not getting those regulations out so the disruptions could have been at least lessened.