[FRIAM] Local News not so good

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

Well, the next few days will tell the story. 

I expect an easter bump. 

N

Nicholas Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
Clark University
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I don't know. It still looks pretty good to me. (See attached.) And the site Steve sent shows NM headed back in the right direction after a bit of a bump: https://rt.live/

I've been watching Atlanta (DeKalb county) and Georgia and will be interested to see the number of cases curve after this Friday's "opening" of nail salons, etc. I'm hoping it'll be mitigated by the businesses who say they're staying closed, despite the Governor.

On 4/22/20 3:08 PM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> Unless we are looking at some sort of statistical artifact, or geriatric bumbling on my part, the new numbers are not so good.  Today’s was the largest number of identified state cases EVER.  The santa fe increase, is part of the largest 3 day total of new cases since April 6.  New hospitalizations, which have been trundling along at 10-20 for a while, suddenly jumped to 40. 
> 
> I had been expecting an Easter Bump, similar to the bump that followed the Great Toilet Paper Orgy of Friday, 13 March.  I assume that even if people DIDN’t go to church, they probably let down their guard a little on that holiday.   If I am correct, this is the beginning of a new “wavelet” of cases which will come in over the next week. 
> 
> I hate to say this, but it is probably a time to be a little extra careful, until this next wave has been identified and isolated.

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