This state of Hotspot Covid is the only one worsens
While several states of difficulty have improved their coronavirus numbers, this state is its opposite.
There were positive signs for the United States, even like thecoronavirus pandemic continues to hit the strong country. Many states that emerged asEpicentres Covid In the last two months, have considerably seen a significant improvement, with a tendency figures to go down for the first time in weeks. A state, however, always goes into the wrong direction.Although Arizona, Florida and California continue to improve, the COVID situation in Texas worsens.
It was the evaluation ofAshish jha, MD, Director of the Harvard Global Health Institute (HGHI), in the 8 August Twitter. "Saturday's numbers are in and I getworried about Texas, "He tweeted." In front of most of the south, the distribution of the disease has decreased. Arizona, South Carolina, Florida,Same Mississippi Look a little better than they did a week ago. Its good. A state looks worse: Texas. "
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States like Arizona have gained praise for their successCOVID confinement efforts, and it seemed, at some point, that Texas would follow the same trajectory. Like Jha note in his thread, "Texas did better" "afterMeasures taken byGOV. Greg Abbott at the end of June. In July, the tests increased, but the percentage of positive tests fell, as well as the number of new cases.
However, however, things "do not go well," writes Jha. It points the positive test rate, which was 19.4% at the time of its thread. From August 10, Covid Act now putsTexas positive text at 19.3%, always the second highest in the country. Theworst positive test rate in the nation Is Mississippi currently 21.1%.
In August 9th, the appearance of the news of the CBS 'Face the nationFormer FDA CommissionerScott Gottlieb, MD, also called Texas by his name. "We now have two waves of this epidemic, New York's wave and now the wave through the Sunbelt, which is pleased, althoughTexas shows signs of utility At least last week and who needs to be closely followed, "he said.
So, what explains the Flashlide of Texas? In its Twitter thread, JHA blames the numbers on a "huge test drop", as well as a significant increase in restaurant reservations, suggesting that more people eat inside restaurants, with numbers "now again to the June levels. " The indoor dining room remains a majorRisk of coronavirus transmissionand experts said that hot spots mustClose the indoor dining room to contain their epidemics.
JHA concluded his thread saying "the disease is still too fast" in Texas. According to Covid Act, Texas now has an infection rate of 0.96, which is somewhat promising because it means that Covid is spreading slowly. But it's not good enough for a state as overwhelmed by the virus as Texas. On the other hand, other hotspot states showed a massive improvement in infection rates which now represent a decrease in active cases:0.89 in California,0.80 in Arizona, and0.86 in Florida.
As of August 10, there were about 508,300Coronavirus Case in Texas, resulting in nearly 9,000 deaths, according toThe New York Times. The recent success of other hotspot states shows that Texas may be reversed by the course, but if the state continues on the same path, these numbers will continue to climb. And for states with more controllable epidemics,Only these 6 states can currently contain new COVID search shows..