Nebraska has a test positivity rate of 20% - indicator for adequate testing is 5% or less - and over the past 2 weeks, cases have gone up by 24%, hospitalizations by 41%, and deaths by 105% (NYTimes). https://twitter.com/kayleighmcenany/status/1321264515313475586">https://twitter.com/kayleighm...

The good news is that this is outdoors. The bad news is the close-packed crowed, the lack of masks, the extended time period, and the fact that 1/3 of the 64,000 cases in Nebraska thus far have been here, in Douglas County.

It& #39;s an exercise of vast carelessness and bravado, shot through with an utter lack of compassion.

Douglas County has 2,214 staffed hospital beds and 317 ICU beds. According to this article h/t @emlitofnote, 79% of the metro area hospital system ICUs are already full: https://twitter.com/emlitofnote/status/1321316458639486976?s=20">https://twitter.com/emlitofno...

In other words,