After a spike in cases in early September, the three charts below show that Leon County COVID numbers are trending down.
The chart below shows that Leon County COVID cases reached a 7-day average (yellow line) of approximately 60 cases in late August before spiking to 210 cases during early September. Since then, the 7-day average number of cases has trended down to 130.
The number of daily COVID hospitalizations has been declining since a high of 94 in mid-August. The number of COVID hospitalizations is now 46. The hospitalization numbers did not seem to be impacted by the September spike.
The Leon County 7-day average (yellow line) COVID positivity rate peaked at over 15% in early September and has since trended down to below 9%. Before the September peak, the positivity rate was below 5% for a week during late August.
Where death rates? Why eliminated?
A lot more people are wearing masks now and even with the Publix arrows in the rows gone people are more conscious of personal space. There's a shield up in all the stores I've been in and six foot line spaces are the norm. I think Tallahassee is missing a comprehensive contact tracing component, with that, this could be contained...minus the wild undergraduate student factor, but that's where good contact tracing would come in.
Its been about 2 weeks since the spike, so lets wait a little longer to see if it results in hospitalizations. We still have 3000-4000 recent active cases.
They don't show the death numbers because if they did everyone would realize its a power trip, not protection.
I've just come to the conclusion that no matter how things trend, we will be made to wear a mask the rest of this year.
2020 sucks, 2021 can't get worse.