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COVID-19 in America

This article is trending on Twitter - the reporter spent 4 months being scrupulous in his avoidance of risk and then wham he got it, which I guess is what happens when you let it rip through a community and country. :(

The weekend before my symptoms appeared, for the first time in four months, I met friends for two dinners at two socially distanced patio tables. Nobody is required to wear masks at the tables, so I removed my mask when I sat, as did my dining partners, and we left them off during the entire time we were at the table.

 
This article is trending on Twitter - the reporter spent 4 months being scrupulous in his avoidance of risk and then wham he got it, which I guess is what happens when you let it rip through a community and country. :(

The weekend before my symptoms appeared, for the first time in four months, I met friends for two dinners at two socially distanced patio tables. Nobody is required to wear masks at the tables, so I removed my mask when I sat, as did my dining partners, and we left them off during the entire time we were at the table.


That's a good read, thanks for posting the link. :thumbs:
 

COVID-19 has leapfrogged to become one of the top killers in the United States, behind heart disease and cancer, a national health expert says.

"COVID is now the No. 3 cause of death in the U.S. — ahead of accidents, injuries, lung disease, diabetes, Alzheimer's and many, many other causes," former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Dr. Thomas Frieden told CNN on Monday.

The U.S. averaged more than 1,000 COVID-19 deaths a day over the past three weeks.

Frieden added that the COVID-19 death rate in the U.S. is higher than in many other countries.

"Last week, Americans were eight times more likely to get killed by COVID than were Europeans," he said.
 

The new poll finds disapproval of Trump's handling of the outbreak at a new high, 58%, as the share who say the worst of the pandemic is yet to come has risen to 55% after dropping through the spring. And as the virus has spread from the nation's cities throughout its countryside, the number who know someone who's been diagnosed with the virus has jumped dramatically to 67%, up from 40% in early June.

And Americans are angry. About 8 in 10 say they are at least somewhat angry about the way things are going in the country today, including an astonishing 51% who say they are very angry. CNN has asked this question in polling periodically since 2008, and the previous high for the share who said they were "very angry" was 35%, reached in 2008 and 2016.
 
Good to see America slowly getting back to normal.
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Yip - it is a plot to make sure that there is no vaccine prior to the elections - NOT!!!!




... and now we are back to Trump knowing more than the experts

 
The true number of deaths in the US could be over 220,000. :(

Nationwide, 223,900 more people have died than usual from March 15 to Aug. 8, according to C.D.C. estimates, which adjust current death records to account for typical reporting lags. That number is 62,000 higher than the official count of coronavirus deaths for that period. Higher-than-normal death rates are now widespread across the country; only Alaska and Hawaii, states outside the contiguous United States, show numbers that look similar to recent years.

Our analysis examines deaths from all causes — not just confirmed cases of coronavirus — beginning in mid-March when the virus took hold.

Through Aug. 8, estimated excess deaths were about 38 percent higher than the official coronavirus fatality count. If this pattern holds, it would put the current death toll at more than 238,000 people.

 
This is scary.

The number of daily coronavirus tests being conducted in the United States is only 52 percent of the level considered necessary to mitigate the spread of the virus, as many states struggle to increase testing and catch up to the recent surge in cases.

An average of 727,000 tests per day were performed over the past week, according to data collected by the Covid Tracking Project, far below the current nationwide target of 1.4 million daily tests. The target, which is based on a methodology developed by researchers at the Harvard Global Health Institute, is different for each state and varies over time as infection rates change.

And, there's been several reports that some test results are taking up to 2 weeks, which is shocking.

Aside from current testing levels, another important indicator of a state’s testing performance is its positive test rate, which is the percent of tests that come back positive. Lower rates suggest that testing is more widespread and that it is not limited to those with severe symptoms. Positive rates should be at or below 5 percent for at least 14 days before a state or country can safely reopen, according to the World Health Organization. In the United States, the current positive rate is 7 percent.

If the national level is 7%, it must be far higher in certain states.

 
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The article says DeWine's statewide mask mandate is making Ohio a hostile work environment, while extending the mandate to places of worship forces citizens "to choose between worshipping their God and worshipping at the altar of unbridled government."
Becker says many Ohioans find the mask mandate offensive, degrading, humiliating and insulting, while there is also evidence that masks can be hazardous to one's health.
He also says Gov. DeWine doubled down when he expanded the mask mandate to school-age children, who are less susceptible to COVID-19.


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Brian Lee Hitchens and his wife, Erin, had read claims online that the virus was fabricated, linked to 5G or similar to the flu.

The couple didn't follow health guidance or seek help when they fell ill in early May. Brian recovered but his 46-year-old wife became critically ill and died this month from heart problems linked to the virus.
 

Wtf is there any scientific basis for this or is it just trying to reduce cases numbers to make Trump look good? elbows LynnDoyleCooper

A desire to manipulate the picture has been apparent since they fucked with hospital data collection some time ago. At that stage I stopped tracking a lot of stuff in the USA because if I dont trust the numbers then whats the point.

Testing of asymptomatic people was one of the only areas where the USA has been vaguely impressive in this pandemic. If you have the capacity to offer testing to those without symptoms then this can really help try to get a proper picture of the state of infection and is also important for trying to limit transmission. The UK never managed to offer this so far, and the fact the USA are trying to give up on it is a tragic disgrace. Well to be fair the UK has offered it in specific circumstances (eg sometimes testing everyone in a setting where there has been a large outbreak, eg a workplace) and by advising people in certain situations to ignore the official guidelines about having symptoms, but this is several steps below what the USA offered, because there was a stage where they were actively asking people without symptoms to get tested.
 
According to

USA went over Six million cases sometime in the "early hours" of 27th August 2020 (I'm guessing the reported figures as at around 0900 GMT).

No doubt it will go higher later in the day.
 
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South Dakota's post Sturgis numbers are going as well as you'd expect, they added over 600 yesterday, half of which were from the 2 previous days, “a reporting aberration” prevented them from being posted till after Governor Noem had given her speech at the RNC the night before last.
 
I've mentioned on more occasion that Canadians are not too happy with Americans crossing into our country.

One of the simpler ways to gain entry is to tell the border patrol you are going to Alaska.
Now, if you are going to Alaska, you have to have a sign on your car with the date you should leave Canada.
You just drive, eat and sleep and get out of our country.


We mean it, stay on your side of the border!!!!

We do not want you here.
 
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