During a news conference at City Hall moments ago, Joplin's new Health Department Director Ryan Talken delivered the dire news that Freeman and Mercy hospitals are "full, but manageable," with 69 COVID-19 patients, with 24 of them being Joplin residents.
The positivity rate for coronavirus tests in Joplin/Jasper County is 15.6 percent, Talken said, considerably above the statewide average of 9.4 percent.
Joplin has had an average of 20 new COVID-19 cases a day over the past two weeks and reached a high of 29 on September 20, Talken said.
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It goes on and on with no effective state or national leadership to stop it.
Anonymous @8:29 PM: By definition it will "go on and on" until herd immunity is reached, either by enough people directly getting it, or getting vaccinated. State leadership can only keep the pace of infections low enough to avoid overwhelming healthcare systems (at which points the death rate would go way up) while not killing the economy and therefore indirectly killing plenty of people, and they're limited to what they can convince people to do.
I guess you don't know that our national leadership has a "Project Warp Speed" which is already mass manufacturing a number of vaccine candidates so that doses will be ready as soon as the FDA approves one or more of them, that's full Manhattan Project style, as effective as anyone can do.
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