COVID-19 hospitalizations trigger business limits for Waco area; Testing surge aimed at limiting spread

Rhiannon Saegert 13 hrs ago 0


Hospitalizations for COVID-19 are forcing businesses in the area to roll occupancy limits from 75% of capacity back to 50% under a state order, and federal health officials are joining local groups to provide an influx of 40,000 free tests in McLennan County.

State data show a stretch of eight days when more than 15% of people hospitalized have had COVID-19 in Trauma Service Area M, which includes McLennan, Bosque, Falls, Hill and Limestone counties. Local officials have said their data does not alight with the state’s, but they are urging businesses to comply with the 50% capacity limit while they figure out the discrepancy. They have not suggested a possible explanation for the discrepancy.

“The state could be exactly right, but we don’t know how they calculated it,” McLennan County Judge Scott Felton said of the hospitalization figure Wednesday during a weekly press conference on the novel coronavirus.-- excerpt, rest at link above --

FTA:

“In our county I think we did a fairly good job testing people who have symptoms of COVID-19. What we haven’t had yet is a major and ongoing opportunity to test people who have minimal or passing symptoms, just a mild headache and fatigue or chills, or people who lack symptoms,” Waco Family Health Center CEO Dr. Jackson Griggs said Wednesday. “It’s sneaky.”

Why? Why would you want a "major and ongoing opportunity to test people" that don't appear to have a coronavirus? Why?

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Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the U.S. Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, recently told a group of Texas doctors that more than half of COVID-19 transmission is a result of someone who is infected but does not have symptoms, Griggs said.


Good grief, this evil dwarf is still out there spreading these lies.....

We know what puts an end to pandemics/epidemics: herd immunity, caused either by a critical mass of people having had the disease and now carrying the antibodies to fight further infections and/or having the antibodies via vaccination. "Limiting the spread" is nonsense. Absolute, dangerous nonsense.