Texas to open 100%

[J'aime Paris]

I'm gonna think positive that it will be ok,
especially since all US adults will have access to the vaccine by the end of May.

 

[Feralpeg]

Love it. I think Florida was the first

Florida has not lifted its mandate. In fact, out total of new cases is slowly creeping back up. Last week we were averaging around 4,000 new cases a day. Today, the total of new cases is 7,000.

Good luck,, Texas. If people could only hold out a few more months, we might actually get out of this.

 

[TLSnell1981]

Some will be apprehensive no matter what the statistics. Folks still have the choice to use whatever precautions they feel are necessary.

 

[Kitty 34]

Just curious.....what percent of the US has been vaccinated?

 

[EMom]

I think right now, they are one of the lowest performing states on vaccination. Hopefully they can get that moving.

Texas was doing fine on vaccinations until Snowmageddon. That set us back at least a week. We will be back on track soon. My vaccination was delayed by 9 days because of the weather situation. If a state has essentially zero vaccinations for a week, that will hurt their stats.

 

[martikus]

I don’t understand why we can’t wait until late summer to lift when we might have herd vaccination. But I understand after living in SC my fellow residents don’t share my feelings. So I will continue to stay safe and masked and hope everyone else doesn’t ruin a return to normal for all as I really want my son to enjoy normal school next year.

 

[TwoMisfits]

Just curious.....what percent of the US has been vaccinated?

https://www.npr.org/sections/health...d-19-vaccination-campaign-going-in-your-state
15.3% one dose

And about 10% (30M) have had documented cases which likely has conferred some immunity, but there is overlap between the 2 groups...

So, probably 20-25% of the population with some form of immunity now...

 

[TLSnell1981]

Florida has not lifted its mandate. In fact, out total of new cases is slowly creeping back up. Last week we were averaging around 4,000 new cases a day. Today, the total of new cases is 7,000.

Good luck,, Texas. If people could only hold out a few more months, we might actually get out of this.

Lifting the mandate on March the 10th statewide in Florida has been delayed?

 

[disneypharm]

The cynic in me just says this is to divert the news cycle away from the power grid debacle a few weeks back.

Saw this on Twitter: "We can't give you power or water, but we sure as hell can give you Covid!" Good luck Texas. Hope they don't come to our state for Spring break!

 

[TwoMisfits]

Mississippi is 100% opening tomorrow.

 

[Joe in VA]

Cases in Florida are absolutely trending down, the 7 day moving average is 5,429, a week ago it was 5,914, a decrease of over 8% week to week. Cases are down about 70% since late January, and down quite a bit from the Super Bowl when the media said there would be a spike. Positivity percentage peaked at 16.1% in January and has steadily fallen to 6.2% since without a blip up.

 

[CarolAnn856]

How shortsighted and reckless.

 

[TheFloatingBear]

I just saw that the Houston Chronicle reported today that a new study finds that Houston is the first major city to record all major variants of Covid-19...Hopefully the positive news today about increased vaccine production will help to outpace...

 

[bobbiwoz]

Our DS and DDIL have received their first vaccines. They live in Houston and we are set to visit after Easter. I hate the thought of cancelling, as we have just begun to travel. We are on our first trip to WDW right now. I hope things go well for Texans.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

That has my state (KY) at 11.2%. The state website (https://govstatus.egov.com/kycovid19) has us under 5 (4.76%). The state website says the 4.76% is based on a 7 day rolling average.

That's a heck of a difference.

Yeah I pointed that out for my state last week or the week before for my state. It was crazy off.

 

[Kitty 34]

https://www.npr.org/sections/health...d-19-vaccination-campaign-going-in-your-state
15.3% one dose

And about 10% (30M) have had documented cases which likely has conferred some immunity, but there is overlap between the 2 groups...

So, probably 20-25% of the population with some form of immunity now...

Thank you.

 

[JimMIA]

Florida has not lifted its mandate. In fact, out total of new cases is slowly creeping back up. Last week we were averaging around 4,000 new cases a day. Today, the total of new cases is 7,000.

Good luck,, Texas. If people could only hold out a few more months, we might actually get out of this.

And yesterday or the day before, we had 1,700.

New case numbers alone mean nothing because our number of test result reports varies so widely from day to day (150,000 tests to 25,000 tests).

But we've been around 6% positivity for quite a while, and that's the number that matters.

 

[spiders]

If you don’t feel comfortable then stay at home. That decision is always up to you.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Around me on both sides of the state lines in the metro they lifted occupancy limits, closing times, and gathering limits for the most part and those were random out of the blue lifting BUT the masking stays and I'm cool with that.

IMO anywhere I think a stairstep approach where it's restrictions lifted and some stay might be the better one and I error on the side of thinking the masking is more important in the end so I'd want masking to be around for a longer time period. It's more so you can objectively study the results and with vaccinations going hand and hand kinda seems like a fair compromise lift some restrictions keep some for a while as the population grows in protection. But that's purely my opinion. We'll see what happens in my state as our state of emergency runs out presently March 31st and some are not eager to keep that going.

 

[White Cat]

It’s about time.