Here’s a USA map where an A-F grade is given to each State state based on tracking data to show population compliance with social distancing. I think it appropriate to also call it a fear map. Data is broken down by county for each State. You might want to opt out of participation and leave your phone home or at least get a good signal blocking case for your phone. If you take it out of the case away from home, you’ve opted back in. But a case gives you the option to have your phone with you should you really need it.
https://www.unacast.com/covid19/social-distancing-scoreboard
Regarding the CDC: The graph shows a big spike in new cases of Covid-19 in mid March. That’s when the CDC released their huge backlog of samples to private labs for testing. The spike does not represent a sudden increase of disease from people that had just started showing symptoms. The results of the backlogged tests were posted as "new" cases for the date(s) the results were received.
As usual, they are blaming the people for not adequately practicing social-distancing while not taking responsibility for failing to do what is critical in containing the spread of this virus: Early and vigorous testing followed by tracing and notifying those exposed to an infected person (and stopping international flights IMO).
~There was no shortage of testing supplies per se.
~It was the CDC that doesn’t have the capacity to process the volume of samples submitted for processing.
~The CDC is NOT a government entity and, as far as I know, isn’t encumbered by bureaucratic red tape.
~The CDC could have utilized the services of private labs at any time but chose to follow protocol and instruct medical facilities to send samples to the CDC (which the CDC must have known in advance would cause a backup)
~Doctors and medical facilities always had the option to bypass the CDC and use private laboratories.
~The private labs were able to process the backlog of millions of cases within 48 hours.
Credit given to the Congressional Dish podcast by Jennifer Briney; Episode 211, 03/21/2020; coverage of Coronavirus Task Force Briefing, Debra Birx, starts at 35:00; transcript posted.
https://www.unacast.com/covid19/social-distancing-scoreboard
Regarding the CDC: The graph shows a big spike in new cases of Covid-19 in mid March. That’s when the CDC released their huge backlog of samples to private labs for testing. The spike does not represent a sudden increase of disease from people that had just started showing symptoms. The results of the backlogged tests were posted as "new" cases for the date(s) the results were received.
As usual, they are blaming the people for not adequately practicing social-distancing while not taking responsibility for failing to do what is critical in containing the spread of this virus: Early and vigorous testing followed by tracing and notifying those exposed to an infected person (and stopping international flights IMO).
~There was no shortage of testing supplies per se.
~It was the CDC that doesn’t have the capacity to process the volume of samples submitted for processing.
~The CDC is NOT a government entity and, as far as I know, isn’t encumbered by bureaucratic red tape.
~The CDC could have utilized the services of private labs at any time but chose to follow protocol and instruct medical facilities to send samples to the CDC (which the CDC must have known in advance would cause a backup)
~Doctors and medical facilities always had the option to bypass the CDC and use private laboratories.
~The private labs were able to process the backlog of millions of cases within 48 hours.
Credit given to the Congressional Dish podcast by Jennifer Briney; Episode 211, 03/21/2020; coverage of Coronavirus Task Force Briefing, Debra Birx, starts at 35:00; transcript posted.
