Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

My point is we are at the peak of the epidemic, run that out over a year and see where COVID deaths rank....

 

Of course it's only "in the last month", the pandemic has really just started hitting us this month, and most acutely in the last week. You seriously think that's being misleading? It will probably be #1 cause of death in the coming months, probably by a massive margin as it peaks.

 

Dunno about "peak" but hope so.

Heart disease and cancer are two very experienced horses to catch, tho. ~1.2MM combined annually, I think.

 

We are not at the peak. Not even close. I'd hope over the course of an entire year COVID comes back down in the pack as a cause of death. Heart Disease is 647K a year, cancer 600k a year, etc. If COVID-19 is up there with those we are in trouble. But it is feasible for it to be 3rd highest cause of death, actually that is pretty much predicted at this point. Interestingly "lower respiratory diseases" is 160K, that that is what COVID-19 would broadly fall under. COVID is likely to cause roughly a doubling (or more) of people dying from respiratory failure.

 

COVID might pass them for a month or two as it peaks as the #1 cause of death. But if we successfully bend the curve, and keep it in the 100K-200K range, that would make it a very temporary phenomenon (1 or 2 months).

 

My wife and I haven't gone out much, just a time or two in more than two weeks. In both cases, there are clearly some oblivious people.

 

The same across the entire south. We are the region with the worst health in the US. We will get hit harder by this than the rest of the US.

 

It shows daily growth of covid19, but the full month of numbers for everything else. It would have been cool to see one day of numbers for everything on the 1st, then 2 on the 2nd, so on and so forth.

 

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How his sailors responded as he left his command.

 

My sister (ICU nurse) got an offer to go to Chicago and make $20k for 21 days of work.

 

That's why I've been so worried for the US since it became clear the spread would reach all corners.

 

NY numbers setting new highs across the board

deaths overnight 2935 up from 2300

 

And eventually it will drop way down the list as a vaccine, treatment and isolation burns itself out....

 

Which explains the high death rate in Louisiana.

 

It’s not a full month of numbers. Let me try again. 647,000 people died of heart disease last year. Divide that by 365 and you have 1,772 die a day. That is the daily number who die and it’s on the chart. The corona virus is the only thing being tracked everyday so it fluctuates. So they are all daily numbers but the others are averages for a day and corona is actually reported daily.

 

Then they need to rewrite their disclaimer at the bottom.

"COVID-19 data is the number of ACTUAL US deaths since March 1st, 2020" makes it sounds like this is the number of deaths since March 1st, not the daily number of deaths each day starting from March 1st.

 

what leads you to believe that we are at the peak?

 

I think they mean the graph starts at March 1st and progresses through the month with actual deaths but I can see the confusion.

 

not just Italy, Spain is crippling. Read an article about how it is sweeping through their nursing homes and police and army are going into nursing homes to find a lot of the staff gone and people dead in their beds and it is only going to get worse. France and Britain are next up.

Spanish Nursing Home Residents Found Living in Squalor Near Bodies of Suspected Coronavirus Victims

(MADRID) — Spanish army troops disinfecting nursing homes have found, to their horror, some residents living in squalor among the infectious bodies of people suspected of dying from the new coronavirus, authorities said Tuesday.

Defense Minister Margarita Robles said the elderly residents were “completely left to fend for themselves, or even dead, in their beds.” She said the discovery over the weekend included several nursing homes but did not name them or say how many bodies were found.

A judicial probe into the horrific discovery was opened Tuesday as Spain announced a record one-day jump of nearly 6,600 new coronavirus infections, bringing the overall total to more than 39,600. The number of deaths also leaped by a record 514 to almost 2,700, second only to Italy and China.

As bodies piled up, Madrid took over a public skating rink as a makeshift morgue after the city facility overflowed. To date, 1,535 people have died in the hard-hit Spanish capital, more than half of the national total. The capital region has over 12,350 infections.