>= 1,000 - 329 100 to 999 - 1202
(New) grand total of counties reads at 3,073. While I've not gotten into an argument with the Topo folks over this re-definition of 'affected' counties, it certainly looks like a move to bolster ex-President AuH2O 2020's perpetual lying.
Among other things, there's growing evidence that 30 days is nowhere near accurate. Here's one report.
Many long-haulers say their doctors doubted their symptoms were as severe as they were saying. Roberts says her original primary care physician insisted it was just stress and suggested she watch Lifetime movies and do puzzles to calm down. "I know stress," Roberts says. "This was not stress."
This report gives specifics.
The list of lingering maladies from COVID-19 is longer and more varied than most doctors could have imagined. Ongoing problems include fatigue, a racing heartbeat, shortness of breath, achy joints, foggy thinking, a persistent loss of sense of smell, and damage to the heart, lungs, kidneys, and brain.
This is turning into the same conflict between the afflicted and physicians that exists in the Lyme disease space.
When news of COVID started spreading, I immediately took it seriously. That's not me bragging; those are just the instincts I've developed after more than a decade of living with Lyme disease. I've been told time and time again over the years that my condition makes me immunocompromised — that part of what Lyme does is it debilitates my immune system.
Many, if not most, of the medical community deny that Lyme persists beyond the treatment regimen.
However, many other figures in the medical establishment maintain that there is no such thing as chronic Lyme. Rather, the label is given to patients with perplexing long-term illnesses by willing clinicians when nothing else seems to fit.
There are a number of ways to calculate the number of affected counties for some disease. The most accurate is to track, via case files, those having the disease on a given day. With Covid, I doubt that anyone or agency is doing that. The easiest way is to take the daily new case count and add it to yesterday's. That gives you cumulative cases for the county, that's where the 5,000,000+ national number comes from. Obviously, most of the folks who were infected in March are now either recovered or dead; except of course for the long-haulers. To calculate by the new definition, you simply subtract the total found at 30, or whatever, days previous. That, naturally, assumes that no one remains affected longer than whatever duration you've chosen.
It's going to disappear. One day, it's like a miracle, it will disappear.
--ex-President AuH2O 2020/28 Feb. 2020
For whatever reason, not one reporter (that I've seen any record of) has ever challenged the fucking moron to name one disease that 'disappeared' spontaneously, without human intervention. A few days ago, a reporter did challenge him about his repeated assertion that the Veteran's Choice law was enacted 'by' him; that legislation was passed in 2014. ex-President AuH2O 2020 then walked out of the press conference. Hurt his feelings.
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