Arkansas ranks in top 10 of slowest increase of COVID-19 cases, CDC report shows

[KenH]

“According to the early release report Friday, Arkansas has one of the slowest cumulative incidence for April 7 with 32.9 per 100,000 per capita, and one of the slowest absolute change in cumulative incidence from March 31-April 7 with 14.4 per 100,000 per capita.

For the absolute change in cumulative incidence, the state ranked No. 8, just behind Kentucky and Hawaii, which tied for 5th with 12.5 per 100,000, and West Virginia at 13.8. Arkansas is followed by North Dakota, which had 14.6 per 100,000 as its absolute change in cumulative incidence.

“Often times our state is in the top whatever of bad things, but now we’re in the top 10 of slow growth of COVID-19,” Smith said.

Hutchinson also noted the state is currently under the number of projected cases by April 10. According to the graph made by the Arkansas Department of Health, it was projected Arkansas would have about 3,500 cases of COVID-19 by now. However, as of briefing time Friday, the state had 1,171 cumulative cases, which is about 2,300 under the projected number.”

Arkansas ranks in top 10 of slowest increase of COVID-19 cases, CDC report shows

 

[church mouse guy]

“According to the early release report Friday, Arkansas has one of the slowest cumulative incidence for April 7 with 32.9 per 100,000 per capita, and one of the slowest absolute change in cumulative incidence from March 31-April 7 with 14.4 per 100,000 per capita.

For the absolute change in cumulative incidence, the state ranked No. 8, just behind Kentucky and Hawaii, which tied for 5th with 12.5 per 100,000, and West Virginia at 13.8. Arkansas is followed by North Dakota, which had 14.6 per 100,000 as its absolute change in cumulative incidence.

“Often times our state is in the top whatever of bad things, but now we’re in the top 10 of slow growth of COVID-19,” Smith said.

Hutchinson also noted the state is currently under the number of projected cases by April 10. According to the graph made by the Arkansas Department of Health, it was projected Arkansas would have about 3,500 cases of COVID-19 by now. However, as of briefing time Friday, the state had 1,171 cumulative cases, which is about 2,300 under the projected number.”

Arkansas ranks in top 10 of slowest increase of COVID-19 cases, CDC report shows

Rural areas are doing better than urban areas.

 

[HatedByAll]

In my state we had three major mobile testing sites. On the map all the areas with a high incidence of cases were in the immediate areas around those testing sites. In my opinion, that skews the results. One one hand, the sites are placed near the larger population centers but on the other hand, are rural people who going to drive 50 to 100 miles or more to go to one of those testing sites when they feel awful and just want to curl up in bed and sleep?

Metropolitan areas have more cases because of universities and other businesses that employ foreigners, so their exposure is higher. But, rural areas also have the problem of the lack of getting tested easily. IMHO, don't trust the testing too much. At best it is a good guess. Too hard to get a test for them to be accurate. Because of that rural states are likely under reported. Just keep that in mind.

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[KenH]

Because of that rural states are likely under reported. Just keep that in mind.

I’m not sure we should even count folks who are not in the hospital. If someone is not in the hospital then they are not taking up hospital resources. Those recovering at home are doing what we all do when we have a cold, strep throat, etc.

 

[HatedByAll]

Is your figure 32.9 per 100,000 hospitalizations? The figure my state publishes are "tested positives."

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[KenH]

Is your figure 32.9 per 100,000 hospitalizations? The figure my state publishes are "tested positives."

The number of cases.

As of yesterday there were 86 hospital cases among the 3,000,000 people of Arkansas.