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Florida and Texas have each reported ~400 deaths in just the past 2 days.

No Biden. He is currently not even in a position to enact policy.

Unless there is some substantive news in relation to the virus, I don't want to see Trump mentioned in here.

Hopefully the heart affects are temporary. It's a big problem if they aren't, or even if they fade away after some years go by because in the meantime you'd have people who survived the acute phase of covid but die prematurely.

Was a little scared to open this thread when I saw it was a "hot" topic. Good to see it didn't go down the toilet with a bunch of name calling and bashing. Anyway, carry on.

Really bad sign that there is already an outbreak on a team. Reports say that it is like 11+ players on the Marlins. MLB is in a tough spot. I think they may be inclined to wait and see if this is sort of an isolated incident as far as this big of an outbreak. If another team or two gets slammed, they definitely pull the plug on the season.

850 mb temps/dews as well as progged mixing heights look very similar between your area and Chicago, so I would attribute it to the urban influence.

Well, thanks for clarifying.

Where are you getting those intrahour obs?

Already 91 at ORD. Haven't looked at it much but based on current temp and clouds not being a significant issue, I'd say 96 if not 97 is within reach.

Unfortunately for the foreseeable future, there is no reason to think we won't have 1000+ deaths per day in this country 4 or 5 days per week with the exception of weekend/lag days. And then who knows what impact that the attempted reopening of schools will have. I mean, we can sort of guess that it will slow the decline at a minimum. A poster in the Lakes/OV sub recently posted his experience with the virus. Disappeared from the board for 2+ months, was hospitalized and barely survived and is still not fully recovered. We know it is a serious virus for some people but stories like that from people on here hit harder.

92 at ORD, 90 at MDW, and __ at Chicago Storm's house

Nice pop-up hurricane off the Texas coast.

National covid hospitalization levels are at the level they were at back in April. Does not mean we will see a death rate like we had back then (due to a higher proportion of younger people being hospitalized as well as having more knowledge about how to treat now) but unfortunately we are probably just going to rip off 1000+ deaths a day for the foreseeable future, except on the weekend/lag days.

Bars/clubs in Indianapolis are closing and restaurants are going back down to 50%. I think it is only Indy/Marion county so far and not across the state. We have not trended very well in July, though fortunately the hospital situation is not currently on the brink as is the case in other states.

Had the same thought. I mean, he was living in Florida and they are going through a rough time. Though the story said he was surrounded by family members, which could suggest another cause since people who die of covid usually die without family physically present. Unless they were on a video chat or something...

Damn man. Thanks for sharing your account.

Longtime Chicago meteorologist Jerry Taft died. In remembrance, here is a classic clip of when he could barely make it through the weather segment due to uncontrollable laughter.

Good post. Just wear a damn mask. Anything that can help lessen spread of this virus. There is room for debate about the exact effectiveness of face coverings and which ones work the best, but I'd be shocked if it turned out that they didn't help at all with covid. There is a better argument for not having a covid vaccine be mandatory (you can't take it off or undo it like a mask and there are actually some side effects with vaccines) but I suppose that is an argument for another time.

Statewide masking order goes into effect in Indiana on Monday for people over 8 years old. I am not sure where that particular number is coming from. I know there is some data out there to suggest that kids over age 10 and especially over age 15 are better at spreading the virus than younger kids.

Looks like today may have the highest fatality number since the end of May, or at least top 2.

The Disney safety protocols seem pretty good from what I saw. Bigger concern may be when people are at their hotels. Of course it is one thing to have protocols in place and another to follow them all of the time. The timing is poor since they reopened during an ongoing surge, so this Disney experiment will be interesting to follow.

I think high schools and colleges are of particular concern. Teenagers/college kids seem to be more efficient spreaders.

Yeah, see my post above. The thing about 10 people pertains to the second dose of the vaccine. I wonder why that group was so small.

I pulled up the 100 degree stats for Chicago. Only went back to the 1940s since the official ob site moved inland in the early 1940s, so it makes for a better comparison through the decades. Number of 100+ days by decade: 1940s: 10 1950s: 8 1960s: 1 1970s: 3 1980s: 12 1990s: 5 2000s: 1 2010s: 4 Now here are the number of years in each decade that had 100 degree days. I think this is useful to look at as well since it gives an idea if one year is responsible for all of the days. Chicago had 4 100+ degree days in the 2010s, but as you can see, all 4 happened in one year (2012). 1940s: 6 1950s: 5 1960s: 1 1970s: 2 1980s: 4 1990s: 3 2000s: 1 2010s: 1