A Northern NY county has the 'most rapidly growing coronavirus incidence in the entire state'...

[WePurrsevere]

This is where we have lived for well over a decade and I can't say that I'm surprised by this. It's a fairly red part of NY with more than a few Trump loving Fox watching cult members. The local county sheriff issued a travel advisory after this news came out and, while most of the comments were either very positive or simply asking for clarification, there were a bunch that were more than happy to flaunt that they're very much a part of the problem.

https://www.northcountrynow.com/news/health-board-president-st-lawrence-county-has-most-rapidly-growing-coronavirus-incidence-entire

A doctor who is among public health officials leading St. Lawrence County’s fight against the coronavirus says the virus is spreading quicker here than anywhere else in the state. Also, the county’s public health director said through the contact tracing process, officials have determined that all of the county’s 63 cases are connected.

Dr. Andrew Williams commented on the local infection rate during the Monday, April 6 St. Lawrence County legislature meeting held online via the Zoom platform. He is president of the St. Lawrence County Board of Health and is medical officer of Community Health Center of the North Country.

“At least as of this morning, St. Lawrence County has the most rapidly growing coronavirus incidence in the entire state," Dr. Williams said.

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“All of the cases so far are linked to each other,” McGuire said. “That’s why we try to make quarantine and isolation the most important piece. That containment can help us decrease the spread.”

She said not all of those patients have been cooperative, some of whom won’t help public health figure out who they may have had close contact with, or won’t stay isolated for the required time period.

“We are finding difficulty with the isolation process and the quarantine process. We have people who do not want to maintain, who won’t give contacts to do all the tracing,” McGuire said. “We do need to have the public know this is a serious process. Isolation and quarantine are very important.”

[notinkansas]

1. If infected people are refusing

to cooperate by providing contact links and refusing to self isolate, maybe some common sense isolation should be forced on them. That is heavyhanded, but these people do not have the right to be out and about infecting other people.

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Hey, I'm seeing this in rural parts of MO too. I suspect that they didn't take things so seriously,

as they should (MO just finally declared a stay at home order, effective yesterday (Monday), while the two big cities (maybe Springfield MO too) had been following stay at home orders for about two weeks).

Two weeks! Thank god. I haven't been out of the house and don't plan on it either. I'm listening to the med. experts, and heeding their advice.

MO (the rest of the state) and the suburbs finally joined the big population centers in shutting down. A gross mistake.

The county now (in the STLMO area) now has about 4 times the number of CV-positive people. Four times! I expect it to get worse too, being that the rest of the state of MO and suburbs finally joined the cities in shutting down non-essential businesses.

Sadly, it'll take probably (maybe less) two weeks at least to gauge its effectiveness. I suspect it's going to be sad. I hope not. There are large stretches of open spaces in MO, but that means that there are fewer businesses attended by more people (since the businesses are few and far between).

Be safe.