Coronavirus in the United States - news and thoughts

1.485% - 1.45% = 0.035% over 2 days = "almost 1% a day"?

 

who said there would be math, still dropping. just checked, it was 1.448%

 

Sure. Get her over to your computer so she can read this: 'Buckeye's wife, if the 46 year old lady in California had been vaccinated, she probably would still be alive.'

 

hope you feel differently is someone fully vaxxed in your family dies,

 

so we pick and choose what science to follow, one that meets our agenda?

 

I won't. Same as if someone I know dies in a car accident while wearing a seatbelt, I'm not going to feel differently that it's a good idea to wear a seatbelt.

 

funny, don't recall any of this when oklahomagator posted daily death rate updates, wonder why?

 

We've talked about the lag between cases and deaths extensively throughout this thread.

The current 7 day average for deaths in the US is about 1200 per day. Do you not think that number will go up in the coming days and weeks?

 

Yes. Exactly. I found out yesterday that Delta spread through the superspreader bris I went to two weeks ago. One of the people who got sick is a doctor’s wife (also a health care worker) and they genome tested her. It was Delta so they gave her the monoclonals and she is better.

 

no, because this has been shown to be a much milder strain.

 

Oh man, you had to bring up 7 day averages, didn't you?

 

Even though it's milder, total deaths will almost certainly rise in the near future. The only question is by how much.

 

Not sure if this is the case here. Often if a test kit is about to expire it isn't released for use as it theoretically may given erroneous results.

Imagine the headline Fla sends out 1 million expired tests kits that may give inaccurate results

 

Not as precipitously as it would if all these new cases were Delta. But sure, with more cases comes the risk of more deaths. I just believe the percentages will be much lower based on what we’ve witnessed so far. Most new non hospitalized, and in our case even hospitalized, patients are not exhibiting the rapid and serious respiratory decline that we saw back in August/September with Delta. As I mentioned, we believe our worst cases now are remnants of Delta. We will admit positive cases without respiratory issues if the patient is in a high risk category and has fevers or some other symptoms that might evolve into something more serious.

 

ok, right now it is at 1.445%, in 2 weeks i will recall this post and see what it is then, ok"

 

Up here the districts handed out tests that they'd apparently received earlier. The expiration dates vary but all expire within the next 30-60 days. On top of that they're saying if you use one & suspect Covid to go get an official test at an "authorized testing location" to be able to go back to school.

 

Geez lines about a mile or more for testing up here. My son has 5 or 6 classmates (2 of whom were at a sleepover with him) & a teacher all with Covid currently. Only 1 classmate is unvaccinated.

Buffalo public schools are moving to ban cloth masks & only allow KN95s. Problem they're going to have is I bet they haven't gotten the pediatric size ones and they're not cheap, & Buffalo students are basically the poorest in the area.

 

Wow.

 

What about when your whole family encounters something that they never do at this time of year?

 

Two years into this cluster and all of a sudden TPTB decides cloth masks don't work...and they wonder why we drink!