COVID-19 Update July 24

COVID-19 Update July 24

Total: 279 confirmed cases
1 out of every 106 residents has been infected.
Salem Today: 1 new case, 20 active cases.

• • • • TODAY’S SPOTLIGHT• • • • • •

It was great while it lasted.
One more Salem resident has been diagnosed with COVID-19.
There were 57 new COVID infections in NH; 11 associated with a long-term care facility. Eight were children.
Manchester has 31 new cases, bringing their total to over 1,700 cases.
Other numbers were disappointing, too: Our positivity rate has jumped to 6.15% — above the 5% that heath officials recommend.
Active cases have gone up for three days in a row.
NH active hospitalizations have increased daily for the last five days. This is one of the metrics the State watches.
We have lost another two NH residents to COVID-19.
We have seen days when the numbers have been concerning, and then they pop right back down. Hopefully, that will happen again tomorrow.
Based on numbers from Worldometer, today was the day with the most new cases globally and in the United States.
Over 1,000 people have died in the US every day for the last four days.

• • • • • DIAGNOSTIC TESTS IN NH • • • • • •

New positive cases per DHHS: 59
My new positive cases (Total of today’s cases minus yesterday’s total): 57
Children under 18 in new cases: 8
Total positive cases in NH: 6,375
Percentage of tests that are positive: 6.25%
Active cases: 575
Percentage of positive cases that are still active: 9.0%
New cases in Rockingham County: 5
Total cases in Rockingham County: 1,573
Percent of all cases from either Hillsborough County or Rockingham County: 81%
Total PCR tests results reported today (Positive results plus negative results): 927
The daily average of diagnostic (PCR) tests reported from 7 days ago to today: 1,176
New negative PCR cases in NH: 870
Total negative cases in NH (as reported by DHHS): 144,344

• • • • • OTHER TEST RESULTS • • • • • •

New antibody tests: 151
Total antibody tests (No break down of positive vs. negative): 26,130
The daily average of antibody tests reported from 7 days ago to today: 148
Children diagnosed with MIS-C: (as of 5/22/2020): 1

• • • • • RECOVERED IN NH • • • • • •

Announced today: 48
Total Recovered: 5,393
Percentage of diagnosed cases that have recovered: 84.6%

• • • • • HOSPITALIZATIONS IN NH • • • • • •

New: 4
Current: 27
Total Hospitalized: 685
Percentage of those who have been infected that have been hospitalized: 10.75%
Percentage of those who have been hospitalized that are still in the hospital: 3.9%

• • • • • DEATHS IN NH • • • • • •

Lives lost today: 2
Persons over 60 years of age who died today: 2
Persons under 60 years of age who died today: 0
Total fatalities in NH associated with COVID-19: 407
NH Residents diagnosed with COVID-19 that died: 6.4%
Lives lost in Rockingham today: 1

These are not simply numbers. We must not forget that these are all someone’s husband or wife, mother or father, sister or brother, son or daughter, friend or neighbor.

Useful links

If you are having trouble paying your rent or mortgage because of COVID-19, help can be found here.
Info about COVID-19 testing is compiled in one place on my website.
Complications of COVID-19 Survivors of all ages can be found on my website.
Help for Salem residents is on my website.
A list of COVID-19 Resources can be found on my website.
An update of nearby communities can be found here.
Institutional Outbreaks as of June 18 on my website.
Resources from NH DHHS are on the State’s website.
Guidance documents from the State are on the State’s website.
COVID-19 is not the flu. Details on my website.

I have put together some additional research on COVID-19, comparing the death rate to the flu and pneumonia. It can be found here, and in the useful links, just above this paragraph.

How time flies! Another weekend is already upon us. Enjoy! But, while you enjoy, please stay safe, and always, be kind.

~Bonnie

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COVID-19 Deaths — It’s Different from the Flu

I was asked about deaths in the US, as reported in these charts. Here’s my analysis:

Per the CDC, from 2/1 to 6/27, there were a total of 1,276,875 deaths. Of those:

US COVID Deaths: 8.8%
Pneumonia: 9.6%
Pneumonia AND COVID: 3.8%
InFLUenza: 0.5%
Pneumonia, ‘Flu OR COVID: 15%
All others: 62.3%
(All others include homicides, accidents, and suicide, plus cancer and heart disease and diabetes and other medical conditions, and natural causes like old age, etc.)

Do I trust these numbers? No. It’s how the death certificates are written. There has been a lot of discussion about how these deaths have been reported, especially in the early days. We see a lot of adjustments, both up and down, in various areas. So no, these aren’t totally accurate. But these numbers give us an approximation. The CDC has linked these categories together in their info, presumably for some purpose.

What I see is that 481,647 people died from a contagious lung disease in this time period. That’s 37.7% of all deaths. Take out the ones that were reported as “Just Flu” or “Just Pneumonia,” (presuming these are correct!), and you get 353,580 cases, or 27.6% of all deaths. That’s more than 1 out of 4 deaths that have been associated with COVID-19.

And don’t forget the potential impacts on the long-term health, and the short and long-term impact on the finances of those who don’t die.

RESOURCES:

My accumulation of resources has been moved. These can now be found at https://www.bonnie4salem.us/covid-19-resources/

Salem specific info can be found at https://www.bonnie4salem.us/covid-19-cases-in-salem/

The report containing information about other towns, counties and our MA neighbors has been moved to https://www.bonnie4salem.us/covid-19-update-nh-towns/I’m updating this information weekly. The last update was May 24.

Sources used to create this report:

COVID-19 Deaths — It’s Different from the Flu

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