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Coronavirus Numbers: San Angelo Testing Positive at an Alarming Rate

By Matt Trammell, Jul 30, 2020
 

SAN ANGELO, TX – In San Angelo 23 people have died from Coronavirus, hundreds have been hospitalized, and thousands have been infected. 

According to COSA, on July 29, 2,131 people in San Angelo have contracted COVID-19. This is out of a population of 100,215. So far 13,095 people have been tested for the Coronavirus and 9,695 of those tests have been negative. This means more than 25% of the people getting tested are coronavirus positive. 

These types of test reported in San Angelo are PCR and Antigen. Out of the total number of positive tests 1,633 were from PCR and 498 were from Antigen tests.

Although San Angelo has had 2,131 positive coronavirus patients 1,161 patients have been released from quarantine. This leaves 816 cases still active. 

Since the beginning of the pandemic 253 people have been hospitalized. 52 patients are currently hospitalized with 7 of them being in the ICU. 23 patients have died from COVID-19. 16 of them were from Tom Green County the other seven were from outside the county line. Patients who have gone into the hospital have died 9.09% of the time. In San Angelo the mortality rate for a coronavirus patients is .84%.

The most common groups of people that are testing positive is Hispanic female ages 20-29. Hispanic people are 51.8% of the total number of positives in San Angelo followed by White people at 25.7%. The remainder of the races make up 22.5% of the positive tests. Also females make up 52.3% of San Angelo's positive case count while males only make up 47.7%. 

Out of the 2,131 positive cases 531 of them came from people ages 20-29, 378 came from people ages 30-39, 305 came from people ages 40-49, 271 came from people ages 0-19, 269 came from people ages 50-59, 194 came from people ages 60-69, and 178 came from people over the age of 70.

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...and I"m glad to see that San Angelo Live has ramped up their coverage. However, where were you in early January? The middle of March? Even the middle of June? Your coverage and the urgency it implies could have gone a long way toward emphasizing the dangers of this invisible killer. Now you must deal with the infectiousness of the presymptomatic, the asymptomatic, or the mildly symptomatic. No one really knows who is shedding the virus cells; no one really knows what they are breathing in as they follow someone through the grocery store or down a jogging path; no one really knows which breath will become pneumonia. We are in a state of siege from a largely invisible enemy. Your newspaper can help people understand the value of masks, the purposes of masks, the value and purposes of social distancing, the need to face this viral reality with grace. Thank you.

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Many of the positives are from neighboring counties, how can you compare apples to oranges? Deaths are not all from here either.

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live, Thu, 07/30/2020 - 17:17
The City of San Angelo is reporting for multiple jurisdictions and they are changing the reporting as they go to maintain transparency. The best I can give you on these tests is that in the Texas DHHS Trauma Service Area K, where San Angelo is the hub of the region from Crockett to Mason Counties, and from Sutton to Coke Counties, there are 179,457 people reported in its population. However, some of the positive test results are from people who reside outside the Trauma region. Opus, you are correct . Trammell included tests that haven't returned back from the lab. 16% positive rate is correct. Gov. Abbott wants this number below 10%.
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It's a shame that Abbott would be satisfied with 10% when the real target is or should be zero percent. Everywhere I go I see people wearing no mask or wearing it improperly. I dislike wearing a mask as much as anyone but it is a small inconvenience to possibly prevent being infected.

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The deaths are needless...a cure exists.

The so called public health “officials” have offered nothing more than basic hygiene practices that we learn in kindergarten. And, those officials contradict themselves at every turn.

Abbott has gone rogue and is not talking to his legislature or deputy, despite the fact that they have requested a special session be called in order to address these changes to and infringements on our daily lives. The legislature needs to be convened so that the direct representatives of the people of Texas can have input on these changes and speak on behalf of their constituents.

If masks work, why the six feet?
If six feet works, why the mask?
If both work, why the lockdown?
You are being trained and conditioned.

Just get in the boxcar.

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Unless you are trying to win a Darwin award you will heed the advice of the medical community. You see this is a very contagious malady and the extra precautions are there for that purpose. No one has said the mark is 100% protection, nor the social distancing. Let mask-less Herman Cain be an example.

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Which advice from the medical community should we heed? Those who spout the approved messaging, or those that are being censored. Maybe that’s not our choice either.

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..when the next major city in the U.S. goes up in flames, with an uptick of "peaceful protests", the "experts" will play down much of the hype.

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The empty suits and skirts that are the mass mockingbird media no longer enlighten, but foster confusion and fear. The media establishment works to put one part of the society against the other, hellbent on disorienting and in turn programming the masses. Our independent thought be damned. Rest assured, we are being coaxed to accept anything in the name of safety.

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