We’re up to 350 362 cumulative cases at my work site. There is an Intranet page that is updated daily and I get an email summary of all the changes. I’ve been deleting the emails as I read them so I don’t have data going back that far. My first COVID @Work post was on July 8th and we had only ~60 cases. Even on December 14, only three short weeks ago, the tally was 271.
Seriously, what are the people getting sick doing? The situation seemed under control early November with pretty low case counts and vaccines approval imminent. Now cases numbers have exploded, hospitals are out of beds, and the government seems unable to distribute vaccine doses. Is it just as simple as getting together for Thanksgiving and Christmas? Are people out partying every weekend with no masks and social distancing? My life hasn’t changed in the last two months: stay home and wear a mask if I need to go out. Is this not true for everyone?
I’m looking at the hospitalization numbers for Los Angeles County and it’s depressing. I found the file through Google search; not sure how to access it directly. Anyway, as of December 31st, there are only 16 adult ICU beds free in the entire county.
Life with chronic diseases 