08-30-2020, 05:15 AM
(This post was last modified: 08-30-2020, 07:23 AM by ChunksterK.)
@eightfingers2.0: A few days ago, there was mention in the media of two clusters in Hilo. One was a very disturbing outbreak at the Veteran's Home and the other was from a "large funeral." Fortunately, the Vet's home was the smaller of the two as far as one could tell from the vague reports. The lack of specificity regarding cluster locations has widely been criticized by citizens on social media and in newspaper comment boards, but the officials and politicians keep using patient confidentiality as a reason not to tell us more.
On a related note, the Hawaii County Civil Defense radio announcements and website messages are done at 8 a.m., and the state updates the data around noon. So we get day old info most of the time. Today they actually updated their 8 a.m. piece (which had yesterday's numbers) late in the day to announce extended testing hours. They didn't bother, however, to add the new infection numbers which jumped from yesterday's 26 to 39, an increase of 50%. Nor did they mention that 17 people (four in ICU) on this island are now in the hospital with Covid. Oh, well. That grinning idiot Talmadge Magno is still in charge over there, so I shouldn't be surprised.
On a related note, the Hawaii County Civil Defense radio announcements and website messages are done at 8 a.m., and the state updates the data around noon. So we get day old info most of the time. Today they actually updated their 8 a.m. piece (which had yesterday's numbers) late in the day to announce extended testing hours. They didn't bother, however, to add the new infection numbers which jumped from yesterday's 26 to 39, an increase of 50%. Nor did they mention that 17 people (four in ICU) on this island are now in the hospital with Covid. Oh, well. That grinning idiot Talmadge Magno is still in charge over there, so I shouldn't be surprised.