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hopefully those percentages are coming down quickly, year after year

Here is the smoker data


https://www.lung.org/research/trends-in-lung-disease/tobacco-trends-brief/overall-tobacco-trends

Chicago is where most virus cases are

the rest of the state is relatively ok

I hope they have locked down all the retirement homes

need to ramp up testing in Chicago area

I just read a report that confirms this. Many outside of Chicago are in nursing homes. Tragic still, of course.

Most of the cases in GA are in the ATL metro area, but that also is where 60% of the population resides.

Duh.

still there is no reason that 40% should be on total lock down which of course has been pointed out many times

More good news out of Abbott Labs today. Antibody testing will soon be very plentiful.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds on Wednesday announced the re-opening of some businesses in Woodbury County and 21 others where the new coronavirus has been more active.

Reynolds’ latest order in her phased-in approach of re-opening Iowa businesses matches the relaxed restrictions in those 22 counties to the previously relaxed restrictions in the state’s other 77 counties.

Other populous counties including Polk, Black Hawk, Scott, Linn and Johnson are also among those that will now have loosened restrictions.

In other words, starting Friday statewide, restaurants, fitness center, libraries, salons and barber shops, tanning facilities, and tattoo parlors may open.

Those businesses, however, must operate at 50 percent of their capacity and incorporate social distancing measures to ensure the safety of workers and customers.


Bars, casinos, movie theaters, amusement parks, swimming pools, and playgrounds remain closed at least through May 27.

Reynolds made the announcement on a day when the number of deaths in Iowa related to COVID-19 continued to climb. The state public health department on Wednesday confirmed 17 new COVID-related deaths, making this the deadliest seven-day stretch since the virus first was confirmed in Iowa in early March.

The fact that businesses MAY open is not the same as businesses actually opening.  Some will, no doubt, but around me, 90% remains closed (take out only).

No art museum, no botanical garden, hotels are closed, office buildings are dormant, traffic is light, no theater, no symphony ....

You CAN open, but they are NOT open.  There are no PEOPLE, no visitors, nothing to bring people in from the 'burbs, very little traffic ....

I know of two restaurants open for dining, and neither have more than a handful of customers, one had zero on Mother's Day.  The other 50 odd remain take out only or closed.  And three are shuttered permanently.

DC and surrounding counties extended their shutdown into June....