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BugggJuice t1_ixrombg wrote

it's probably because nobody wears masks anymore? not to mention it's the holiday season so people are unmasked in close quarters more often than any other time of the year. we also have a travel hub here with the train and the airport

we're also a college town? and college kids spread disease like it's their job

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Ashbin OP t1_ixrs5dk wrote

It's just sort of odd it changed up in the last couple of weeks. On Wednesday, Richmond was #3 in the state for new COVID cases.

Chesterfield is running about half of what Richmond is producing, and Henrico was always there big time but seems to be taking a small break.

This data is only for the past week or so, but when I saw Richmond three times came in #2 in the state for new cases (population about 230,000), I was surprised. It was only beat by a county with a population of about 880,000 (Fairfax County), which just seemed weird.

Edit: left out some words

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Utretch t1_ixsdp1u wrote

Is it odd? The last two winters cases skyrocketed why should we expect differently?

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SwanOverSunshine t1_ixt1kx0 wrote

I think the question is why is Richmond high, but Henrico low? Most of Covid, they’ve been similar. My guess is it’s a data reporting issue - maybe for some reason, people in the city are using testing resources that get reported in the stats more than Henrico residents?

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Ashbin OP t1_ixvfzv5 wrote

Virginia is actually at a very low point at the moment....bottom of a curve and a new curve (surge) for COVID has not yet started.

Wednesday:

/r/coronavirusVA/comments/z2w9b4/virginia_covid_case_hospital_numbers_report_for/

/r/coronavirusVA/comments/z4nf5u/virginia_breakdown_by_citycounty_of_new_covid/

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oddistrange t1_ixtftiq wrote

A majority of the Richmond-metro area's hospital beds are located in Richmond, COVID results are probably attributed to the locality of the reporting hospital not the locality of the patient's residence. MCV and Chippenham are both in Richmond with ~1400 beds combined. Henrico Doctor's hospital is carrying the weight of Henrico with 767 beds. St Francis in Midlothian has 130 beds. This could be where and why the numbers are getting funky because I'm pretty sure most hospitals still require a COVID test for inpatient admissions.

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Ashbin OP t1_ixve8el wrote

> A majority of the Richmond-metro area's hospital beds are located in Richmond, COVID results are probably attributed to the locality of the reporting hospital not the locality of the patient's residence.

VDH accounts for this and puts in location corrections. If you live in Chesterfield, VDH will consider it a Chesterfield COVID case, even if you are in a hospital in Richmond. The COVID report sent to VDH (by a hospital) has your address on it, and they code it based on that. If a screw up happens, a correction is issued.

These corrections for similar situations were put into the VDH database Wednesday:

Galax (-1 case)
New Kent County (-1 case)
Northampton County (-1 case)
Covington (-1 case)
Bath County (-1 case)
James City County (-3 cases)
Lexington (-4 cases)
Norton (-7 cases)
Colonial Heights (-10 cases)
Radford (-11 cases)

data from VDH database

Edit: corrected a wrong word

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