I don't know if our low numbers are due to low pop density or lack of testing?
Other than hyvee I don't see anyone out and about where I live except a few dog walkers
Coronavirus Coronavirus: In-Iowa General Discussion (Not Limited)
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I don't know if our low numbers are due to low pop density or lack of testing?
Other than hyvee I don't see anyone out and about where I live except a few dog walkers
https://www.kcci.com/article/reynol...iowa-only-testing-those-hospitalized/31820771
"She said there are 162 tests being reviewed daily at the state labs. Iowa Department of Public Health officials say 765 negative tests have been conducted at the State Hygienic Lab. Reynolds emphasized the importance of using current testing for those hospitalized and showing symptoms.
As of Friday, the state lab has materials to test 620 individuals. This number changes based on product being used and products being delivered."
Let's say that we needed to test 1% of Iowa's population (3.1 million)=31,000 tests. Current rates of test review (162/day) at the state labs would complete that batch of tests sometime on September 29th, as long as they worked 7 days a week.
"She said there are 162 tests being reviewed daily at the state labs. Iowa Department of Public Health officials say 765 negative tests have been conducted at the State Hygienic Lab. Reynolds emphasized the importance of using current testing for those hospitalized and showing symptoms.
As of Friday, the state lab has materials to test 620 individuals. This number changes based on product being used and products being delivered."
Let's say that we needed to test 1% of Iowa's population (3.1 million)=31,000 tests. Current rates of test review (162/day) at the state labs would complete that batch of tests sometime on September 29th, as long as they worked 7 days a week.
If you're referring to K&G corporate, that is confirmed.
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/s...center-tests-positive-coronavirus/2889649001/
Lack of testing is keeping numbers low across the country; but lower population density should be at least a partial insulator for Iowa. My parents live in the middle of North Dakota, a full mile from their closest neighbor with only about 2400 people in the whole county.....someone walking to work in New York City comes within 20 feet of more people in one day than they do in a year.
The fact that relatively few people live right on top of each other is a big plus in mitigating any infectious disease. High density areas will have a much more difficult time limiting the spread.
That's insane. That can't be accurate, can it?
If it is, then we should already be shutting down all non essential businesses IMO. We are headed for another Depression.
80% of the state population; lets say 5% of the infected need to be hospitalized in some form.....that's 124,000 hospitalizations. Even 1% would be 24,800.
American Hospital Directory shows Iowa had 6,266 staffed beds as of 2018.
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The point of the measures we're taking now and "flattening the curve" is that we're buying more time to manufacture more tests, ease the burden on our hospitals, and find a drug regimen that helps treat Covid and lessens the severity until we have a vaccine.
It's a troubling time right now, but the "it's the end of society!" rhetoric is getting annoying. Things will get better at some point.
All along there have been projections of huge portions of the population getting it eventually. I don't recall if I've heard 80% before, but I know I've heard 70% at the top end of the range.
The urgency is around the timing of when people get it.
FWIW, both our local hospital systems said they cannot accept homemade masks at this time so bn I'd definitely track down that it will be useful before spending much time on it. Unity point is the group for one of them.
Everyone getting it over the period of several months isn't a big deal. Everyone getting it over the period of a couple weeks is.
I know the owner of a small civil engineering firm and when I asked him about closing down he told me he'd consider his business essential because the DOT can't wait for highway design plans.
And letting flu season wind down before we start seeing/needing mass hospitalizations.
This is what my friend who lived in illinois said he was told about his engineering job too, they do stuff for commercial buildings.
The thought crossed my mind that with less people driving, car collisions could go down.
no, a location off of Euclid in Des Moines. They closed the location temporally to clean.
23 new cases, just announced
https://governor.iowa.gov/press-release/additional-covid-19-cases-in-iowa-1
https://governor.iowa.gov/press-release/additional-covid-19-cases-in-iowa-1
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