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for perspective thats still less per head of population than the UK175,000 deaths in the USA Jesus.
for perspective thats still less per head of population than the UK175,000 deaths in the USA Jesus.
It's kind of chilling reading back to when I first started this threadThe predictions link is sobering reading on there too. Almost 300k by December.
Can you share the link, I did not see it there.The predictions link is sobering reading on there too. Almost 300k by December.
There's a Projections link which goes here: IHME | COVID-19 ProjectionsCan you share the link, I did not see it there.
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.
Column: I had COVID-19, and these are the things nobody tells you
L.A. Times sports columnist Bill Plaschke talks about experiencing COVID-19. Yes, he says, it's really as bad as you've heard.www.latimes.com
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.
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.
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.
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.
“Shame on the people at the CDC,” Cuomo said, calling the change “indefensible.”
C.D.C. Now Says People Without Covid-19 Symptoms Do Not Need Testing (Published 2020)
The revision prompted confusion and alarm from experts, who called the move “potentially dangerous.”www.nytimes.com
Wtf is there any scientific basis for this or is it just trying to reduce cases numbers to make Trump look good? elbows LynnDoyleCooper
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Former GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain dies after battle with coronavirus
Cain, a former presidential hopeful who was once considered by President Donald Trump for the Federal Reserve,www.cnbc.com