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14 Jul 2020, 5:22 am

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Yes magz, I don't trust the government so I am quarantining myself and only meeting friends and family outside with masks . The day before yesterday there were 1,300 new cases, yesterday it rose to 1,800. (7 million national poulation) We are running out of medication. The economy is crashing. I believe that a new better world will emerge post Corona, a more altruistic less egoistic world. We shall see :D The present world situation is nothing to be proud of.

Not trusting governments is always wise :mrgreen:
I think COVID19 highlighted an issue that has been there for quite a long time: we need to cooperate more to care for our tiny global world.
I'm almost sure it's not the last pandemics in my lifetime. It's in the numbers, population and ease of travel make every new disease potentially global.


I feel like God is telling us "I gave you a great planet you have destroyed it and exploited each other shamefully. Go to your rooms, I am taking all your toys, and think about how you can stop exploiting the planet and start learning mutual responsibility."


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14 Jul 2020, 5:56 am

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I feel like God is telling us "I gave you a great planet you have destroyed it and exploited each other shamefully. Go to your rooms, I am taking all your toys, and think about how you can stop exploiting the planet and start learning mutual responsibility."

I'm not theist enough to see it that way - but I agree that it's a clear signal that we urgently need to step back and rethink our relationship with other people and nature. This planet is becoming too small to fit our egoism.


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14 Jul 2020, 6:49 am

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I feel like God is telling us "I gave you a great planet you have destroyed it and exploited each other shamefully. Go to your rooms, I am taking all your toys, and think about how you can stop exploiting the planet and start learning mutual responsibility."

I'm not theist enough to see it that way - but I agree that it's a clear signal that we urgently need to step back and rethink our relationship with other people and nature. This planet is becoming too small to fit our egoism.


Then we hold the same view on this point. Humanity is an irritant to the integral harmony of nature. Also nothing is random in my own view.


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14 Jul 2020, 10:02 am

Can Covid-Free New Zealand Begin New Normal in Closed World

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Three months and five days ago, New Zealand entered Level 4 detention less than a month after its first Covid-19 case. The plan was to defeat the virus by cutting the chain of transmission.

To this end, the government has developed an intelligent and effective fear-of-war campaign: "United against Covid 19", in which victims have been claimed and all New Zealanders had to participate in "the team of 5,000,000".

All the directives were known and, in many countries, a variant was used: social distancing, self-isolation, more closed societies, restricted internal circulation and closed borders.

Where will the new measures lead New Zealand?
These measures have undoubtedly helped stop the disease, for which the government deserves considerable recognition. It is even more important that the central wage subsidy has been well designed: advance payment and application to all, essentially all employees in eligible jobs.

Gaming companies that are among the hardest hit can now regain some normality. Despite the hit on the highstreets, the New Zealand casinos still flourished online hitting record-breaking numbers, peaking in March.
As long as border restrictions are in place, New Zealand's SkyCity casinos in Wellington, Auckland, and Hamilton will be among the first in the world to resume operations without requiring social distance in their gaming plans or elsewhere.

SkyCity Entertainment Group was pleased with the government's confirmation that New Zealand would go on COVID-19 at midnight June 8 to lift meeting restrictions and meet requirements. physical move for all businesses.

Coming back to a new normality
What had been planned in New Zealand from the start was much better designed than the overly bureaucratic and complicated system in Australia. There is and always will be a sharp increase in the unemployment rate, but this increase will no doubt be much less than it would have been otherwise.

However, until then and should a second wave of Covid sees us all be thrown into a post-apocalyptic Mad Max-like world and New Zealand becomes the beacon of civilization, we cannot live this way forever. Are their reasonable changes to adapt to, or is it a case of wait and see? Let’s not forget, no independent report or investigation has taken place, little is known of this virus, no one can confirm that it will be a new strain of flu to remain amongst the human life cycle.

The only certainty is that is now becomes political chess and no-one wants to take the first move whilst the clock ticks on.

But if the past two weeks of border repression and mismanagement have told us anything, the public appetite for the risk of reintroducing Covid is practically non-existent.

Three months and five days ago, New Zealand entered Level 4 detention less than a month after its first Covid-19 case. The plan was to defeat the virus by cutting the chain of transmission.

To this end, the government has developed an intelligent and effective fear-of-war campaign: "United against Covid 19", in which victims have been claimed and all New Zealanders had to participate in "the team of 5,000,000".
All the directives were known and, in many countries, a variant was used: social distancing, self-isolation, more closed societies, restricted internal circulation and closed borders.

Where will the new measures lead New Zealand
These measures have undoubtedly helped stop the disease, for which the government deserves considerable recognition. It is even more important that the central wage subsidy has been well designed: advance payment and application to all, essentially all employees in eligible jobs.

Gaming companies that are among the hardest hit can now regain some normality. Despite the hit on the highstreets, the New Zealand casinos still flourished online hitting record-breaking numbers, peaking in March.
As long as border restrictions are in place, New Zealand's SkyCity casinos in Wellington, Auckland, and Hamilton will be among the first in the world to resume operations without requiring social distance in their gaming plans or elsewhere.

SkyCity Entertainment Group was pleased with the government's confirmation that New Zealand would go on COVID-19 at midnight June 8 to lift meeting restrictions and meet requirements. physical move for all businesses.

Coming back to a new normality
What had been planned in New Zealand from the start was much better designed than the overly bureaucratic and complicated system in Australia. There is and always will be a sharp increase in the unemployment rate, but this increase will no doubt be much less than it would have been otherwise.

However, until then and should a second wave of Covid sees us all be thrown into a post-apocalyptic Mad Max-like world and New Zealand becomes the beacon of civilization, we cannot live this way forever. Are their reasonable changes to adapt to, or is it a case of wait and see? Let’s not forget, no independent report or investigation has taken place, little is known of this virus, no one can confirm that it will be a new strain of flu to remain amongst the human life cycle.

The only certainty is that is now becomes political chess and no-one wants to take the first move whilst the clock ticks on.


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14 Jul 2020, 10:17 am

Virginia Beach sees 92% jump in cases, FEMA memo says

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Virginia Beach, Virginia, may be a new spot to watch, according to an internal FEMA memo obtained by ABC News.

Virginia Beach reported 317 new cases for the week ending July 8 -- a 92.1% increase over the previous week.

Montana is also seeing a drastic jump.

On July 9, the state reached a new single-day record of 96 new cases, according to the FEMA memo. There were 377 new cases reported in the week ending July 8 -- a 59.1% increase week-over-week.

Forty states reported an upward trend test-positivity rate over the last week.

Nationwide death counts show a large increase in the last two days.

From July 6 to July 12, there were 410,332 new cases reported and 5,073 new deaths in the U.S. Those figures represent a 20.4% increase in cases and a 47.4% increase in deaths.


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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is facing backlash from the scientific community and others for using a state report that backed up his theory that nursing home coronavirus deaths were not caused by his policies, even though the report may not have thoroughly explored the issue.

Cuomo has been insisting that the thousands of nursing home deaths had nothing to do with his March 25 order that required nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients who were medically stable without testing them, claiming that the deaths were caused by infected staff members who spread the virus. The new report backs this up, but experts have questioned the report’s methods.

“Would this get published in an academic journal? No,” University of Texas, Houston, epidemiologist Catherine Troisi told The Associated Press.

The report says that 80 percent of the 310 nursing homes in the state that took coronavirus patients already had cases before Cuomo issued his order, but Troisi noted that it does not address what impact the order had on the other 20 percent.

Denis Nash, an epidemiologist at the City University of New York School of Public Health, told the AP that the number of nursing home deaths reported by the state does not include residents who died at a hospital. Nash said this is a “potentially huge problem” that undercounts the virus’ toll and could “introduce bias into the analysis.”

Rupak Shivakoti, an epidemiologist at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, noted that even if the report is accurate in stating that infected staff were the greatest factor in contributing to residents’ deaths, the order still could have played a role.

“If they didn’t infect other patients directly,” Shivakoti said, “they still could have infected a worker.”

Cuomo has blamed “dirty politics” for the accusations he has faced over his order, which he eventually rescinded on May 10. He said it was a “political conspiracy that the deaths in nursing homes were preventable.”

Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., who is a leader of a House subcommittee on the COVID crisis, said in a letter to Cuomo last week that “[b]lame-shifting, name-calling and half-baked data manipulations will not make the facts or the questions they raise go away.”

Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi responded: “We’re used to Republicans denying science but now they are screeching about time, space and dates on a calendar to distract from the federal government’s many, many, embarrassing failures. No one is buying it.”

Charlene Harrington, a professor emerita of nursing and sociology at the University of California at San Francisco, is not convinced by New York’s explanations.

“It seems like the Department of Health is trying to justify what was an untenable policy,” Harrington said.

Cuomo, who early on received adulation for his leadership during the pandemic, was also recently blasted for selling a poster touting New York's response to the coronavirus outbreak.

On Monday, Cuomo debuted the poster he designed called "New York Tough" that he suggested captures the journey his state went through while addressing the pandemic.

According to the pre-order page, the poster costs $14.50 plus shipping and handling and "New York State does not profit from the sale of this poster."

Cuomo also recently told 1010 WINS radio that he is writing a book about his experience handling the pandemic.


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14 Jul 2020, 12:17 pm

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A useful tool: https://mpidr.shinyapps.io/stmortality/
It counts overall mortality every week and compares it to previous years' averages. Sweden was famous for not intruducing lockdowns. Compare it to neighbouring Norway that did introduce lockdowns early.
There is enough data available to analyse outcomes of various approaches.


magz thanks for sharing the link Short-term Mortality Fluctuations
It seems to be a program developed by U.C. Berkeley that tracts death by each week. It compares the current year to the average observed during years 2010-2019. It does this by country (although all countries are not identified.) Therefore if there is a variable, such as deaths by COVID-19, it will show up as a red area and account for all additional deaths by all causes associated with the disease. If something causes the death rate to decline significantly it will show up as a light blue area.

So if you look up Italy, it shows the death rate beginning to soar in week 10 and returning back to near normal on week 18.

France took off beginning around week 12 and returned to normal around week 20.

Spain took off around week 10 and returned to normal around week 22.

Bulgaria is an abnormality. The deaths this year is below normal over the first half of the year. I wonder why.

The United States is interesting. Deaths began to rise abnormally around 13 but returned into the normal range around week 23. But the odd thing is that we at the moment are very deep in the blue territory. I suspect this has to do with the way CDC is collecting data. It takes a couple weeks for the death data to arrive and be counted. The authors of the tool wrote, "Data for 2020 is preliminary and for the last 1-3 available weeks may be incomplete."

So the low death count is probably an artifact related to the delay in reporting deaths. We are currently in week 28 of this year and the graph for the U.S. seems to end at week 25. It will be interesting to watch this tool in the next few weeks in order to see if it is an artifact or real.


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14 Jul 2020, 5:24 pm

First COVID-19 vaccine tested in US is now poised for final testing: ‘No matter how you slice this, this is good news

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The first COVID-19 vaccine tested in the U.S. revved up people’s immune systems just the way scientists had hoped, researchers reported Tuesday -- as the shots are poised to begin key final testing.

“No matter how you slice this, this is good news,” Dr. Anthony Fauci, the U.S. government’s top infectious disease expert, told The Associated Press.

The experimental vaccine, developed by Fauci’s colleagues at the National Institutes of Health and Moderna Inc., will start its most important step around July 27: A 30,000-person study to prove if the shots really are strong enough to protect against the coronavirus.

But Tuesday, researchers reported anxiously awaited findings from the first 45 volunteers who rolled up their sleeves back in March. Sure enough, the vaccine provided a hoped-for immune boost.

Those early volunteers developed what are called neutralizing antibodies in their bloodstream -- molecules key to blocking infection -- at levels comparable to those found in people who survived COVID-19, the research team reported in the New England Journal of Medicine.

“This is an essential building block that is needed to move forward with the trials that could actually determine whether the vaccine does protect against infection,” said Dr. Lisa Jackson of the Kaiser Permanente Washington Research Institute in Seattle, who led the study.

There’s no guarantee but the government hopes to have results around the end of the year -- record-setting speed for developing a vaccine.

The vaccine requires two doses, a month apart.

There were no serious side effects. But more than half the study participants reported flu-like reactions to the shots that aren’t uncommon with other vaccines -- fatigue, headache, chills, fever and pain at the injection site. For three participants given the highest dose, those reactions were more severe; that dose isn’t being pursued.

Some of those reactions are similar to coronavirus symptoms but they’re temporary, lasting about a day and occur right after vaccination, researchers noted.

“Small price to pay for protection against COVID,” said Dr. William Schaffner of Vanderbilt University Medical Center, a vaccine expert who wasn’t involved with the study.

He called the early results “a good first step,” and is optimistic that final testing could deliver answers about whether it’s really safe and effective by the beginning of next year.

“It would be wonderful. But that assumes everything’s working right on schedule,” Schaffner cautioned.

And Tuesday's results only included younger adults. The first-step testing later was expanded to include dozens of older adults, the age group most at risk from COVID-19. Those results aren't public yet but regulators are evaluating them, and Fauci said final testing will include older adults, as well as people with chronic health conditions that make them more vulnerable to the virus — and Black and Latino populations likewise affected.

Nearly two dozen possible COVID-19 vaccines are in various stages of testing around the world. Candidates from China and Britain’s Oxford University also are entering final testing stages.



The 30,000-person study will mark the world’s largest study of a potential COVID-19 vaccine so far. And the NIH-developed shot isn’t the only one set for such massive U.S. testing, crucial to spot rare side effects. The government plans similar large studies of the Oxford candidate and another by Johnson & Johnson; separately, Pfizer Inc. is planning its own huge study.

Already, people can start signing up to volunteer for the different studies.

People think “this is a race for one winner. Me, I’m cheering every one of them on,” said Fauci, who directs NIH’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.

“We need multiple vaccines. We need vaccines for the world, not only for our own country.”

Around the world, governments are investing in stockpiles of hundreds of millions of doses of the different candidates, in hopes of speedily starting inoculations if any are proven to work.


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14 Jul 2020, 6:49 pm

Does anyone think that there is more to this virus then we have been told?


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14 Jul 2020, 7:02 pm

WEAR. A. MASK.

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Robert Redfield, director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, believes "the most powerful weapon we have" against the novel coronavirus is wearing face coverings, washing hands and "being smart about social distancing."

"If we all rigorously did this, we could really bring this outbreak back to where it needs to be," Redfield told the Journal of the American Medical Association via video on Tuesday.

Coronavirus cases are surging across the U.S., from California to Texas to Florida. More than 3.4 million people in the country have been diagnosed with the coronavirus and over 136,00 people have died.

To Redfield, a major key to controlling the pandemic is wearing masks.

"I really do believe if the American public all embraced masking now and we really did it, you know, rigorously ... I think if we can get everybody to wear a mask right now, I really do think over the next four to six, eight weeks, we can bring this epidemic under control, Redfield said.”
The CDC director stressed that wearing a mask is "not a political issue -- it is a public health issue," calling it a "personal responsibility" for everyone.

"I'm glad to see the president wear a mask this week, and the vice president," Redfield said. "We need them to set the example."
President Donald Trump wore a mask for the first time in public over the weekend on a visit to Walter Reed Medical Center.

Looking ahead, Redfield said he's worried about the upcoming fall and winter, when flu season begins.
"I do think the fall and the winter of 2020 and 2021 are going to be probably one of the most difficult times ... in American public health because of ... the co-occurrence of COVID and influenza," he told JAMA.

Redfield stressed the importance of getting the flu vaccine, "because I think those two respiratory pathogens hitting this at the same time do have the potential to stress our health system."


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14 Jul 2020, 11:23 pm

California orders shutdown of bars and indoor dining as coronavirus cases surge

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California Governor Gavin Newsom on Monday ordered the closure of indoor businesses across the state, including restaurants, bars, wineries, movie theaters, zoos and museums as coronavirus cases continue to surge.

Newsom's announcement comes as California reported 8,358 new cases of COVID-19, according to July 13 data from the state's health department. The state now has a total of 329,162 positive cases, and 1,833 of the patients required intensive care. There have been a total of 7,040 deaths in California so far.

Newsom also imposed more stringent restrictions in 30 counties, including Los Angeles, Napa, Orange, Riverside, Sacramento, San Bernardino, San Diego and Ventura. In those counties, gyms, places of worship, non-critical offices, personal care services, hair salons, barbershops and malls must close all indoor operations.

Newsom said in his Monday afternoon press conference that residents of the nation's most populous state should remember that the coronavirus will not be going away until there is a vaccine or effective therapy.

"This virus is not going away anytime soon," he said. "I hope all of us recognize that if we were still connected to some notion that somehow when it gets warm it's going to go away or somehow it's going to take summer months or weekends off, this virus has done neither."

Also Monday, California's two largest school districts in Los Angeles and San Diego counties announced they will offer online classes when the school year starts this fall. In a joint statement, the districts said they will plan for in-person learning when health conditions allow.

Across the country, there is a concern that younger people are not getting the message about the severity of the pandemic.

"'I think I made a mistake, I thought this was a hoax, but it's not,'" Dr. Jane Appleby told CBS News.


Coronavirus Travel Advisory: Passengers Arriving At NYC Airports Must Fill Out Health Form Or Face Up To $2,000 Fine
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Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Gov. Phil Murphy are tightening the restrictions on travel into our area, adding four new states to the hot spot quarantine list.

There’s also enforcement beginning Tuesday at New York airports, CBS2’s Natalie Duddridge reported.

The four states added to the advisory list are Minnesota, New Mexico, Ohio, and Wisconsin, bringing the total to 22. Delaware has been taken off the list.

Travelers from any of the identified states to New York or New Jersey must quarantine for 14 days.

Here’s how it works at airports: When a traveler arrives at the gate they must have a new Department of Health form filled out. They will be met by an enforcement team, which will check phones or paperwork to confirm. If the form is not filled out, the traveler could face a hefty fine.

Craig Davis landed at LaGuardia from Georgia, one of the spiking states, and told Duddridge about the process.

“Just basic questions, like what state are you coming from? Have you been around anybody who has had any symptoms of the virus,” said Davis, who came in from Atlanta. “I’m not sure what to think yet, because I haven’t studied it, but if it’s to keep the virus down, I’ll give it a thumb’s up.”

Passengers either get the form before boarding or in the air, and also can fill it out electronically. It asks for contact information, where the traveler plans to stay, and if you are traveling from a state designated as having a significant amount of community spread. If so, it advises that you must quarantine for two weeks.

Duddridge couldn’t find anyone at LaGuardia who objected.

“Because there are definitely spikes in other states, so I think it’s necessary,” one traveler said.

The new measures apply to anyone who arrives by air, car, bus, or train, but doesn’t apply to essential workers or someone just passing through a state within a 24-hour period.

“I’m only here for a day, so it doesn’t affect me, really. I’m kind of happy about that. But I think that’s a good idea for them to put that in place. Just because I know a lot of people are using this downtime to go to other states, get vacations out of it,” said Najoua Alioualla, who arrived from Chicago.

Driving your own car into the state is obviously more difficult to enforce, but even at the airport, a more controlled environment, one passenger told Duddridge she slipped through the cracks.

“Nobody’s even stopping people to say anything. I just seen the sign, so I stopped,” said Atalia Grice, who flew in from Washington.

If you don’t fill out a form, you could face a fine of up to $2,000. What’s more, if you violate a quarantine order, you could face a $10,000 penalty, the state said.


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15 Jul 2020, 1:23 am

44 year old man stabs a 77 year old store clerk when arguing about having to wear a mask.

The store refused to serve the man without a mask.

The store clerk is in stable condition.

Police later killed the 44 year old man.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/ ... 112234476/


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15 Jul 2020, 3:39 am

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44 year old man stabs a 77 year old store clerk when arguing about having to wear a mask.

The store refused to serve the man without a mask.

The store clerk is in stable condition.

Police later killed the 44 year old man.

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/ ... 112234476/

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15 Jul 2020, 5:57 am

South Africa: coronavirus exposes years-long neglect, abuse and corruption in healthcare system, to dramatic results.

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With key staff on strike or sick with coronavirus in the Eastern Cape province, nurses are forced to act as cleaners, surgeons are washing their own hospital laundry and there are alarming reports of unborn babies dying in overcrowded and understaffed maternity wards.

As doctors, unions and management fight over scarce resources, one senior doctor described the situation as "an epic failure of a deeply corrupt system", while another spoke of "institutional burn-out… a sense of chronic exploitation, the department of health essentially bankrupt, and a system on its knees with no strategic management".

Full read: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-53396057


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COVID DEATHS IN THE U.S. CONTINUE TO TREND DOWNWARD

On 29 June on this thread, I posted the latest U.S. death counts due to COVID-19 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). It showed a downward trend.

Week ending date in which the death occurred All Deaths involving COVID-19
Total Deaths---109,188
2/01/2020------- 1
2/08/2020------- 1
2/15/2020------- 0
2/22/2020------- 5
2/29/2020------- 5
3/07/2020------- 33
3/14/2020------- 52
3/21/2020------- 551
3/28/2020------- 3,052
4/04/2020------- 9,504
4/11/2020------- 15,698
4/18/2020------- 16,350
4/25/2020------- 14,103
5/02/2020------- 11,670
5/09/2020------- 10,747
5/16/2020------- 8,772
5/23/2020------- 6,666
5/30/2020------- 5,445
6/06/2020------- 3,904
6/13/2020------- 2,148
6/20/2020------- 481

Source: Daily Updates of Totals by Week and State

So I went back today and looked at the current numbers

2/01/2020------- 0
2/08/2020------- 1
2/15/2020------- 0
2/22/2020------- 5
2/29/2020------- 5
3/07/2020------- 33
3/14/2020------- 52
3/21/2020------- 553
3/28/2020------- 3,058
4/04/2020------- 9,521
4/11/2020------- 15,719
4/18/2020------- 16,374
4/25/2020------- 14,144
5/02/2020------- 11,718
5/09/2020------- 10,808
5/16/2020------- 8,856
5/23/2020------- 6,820
5/30/2020------- 5,681
6/06/2020------- 4,345
6/13/2020------- 3,228
6/20/2020------- 1,847
6/27/2020------- 464
7/04/2020------- 71

The declining trends in U.S. death rates is very visible. This is a seasonal virus and now that we are in the summer, the deaths are declining. People are still contracting COVID, many are being hospitalized. But the key difference is that they are not dying. This is because in my opinion, the viral load is being reduced by sunlight and air ventilation. They contract a smaller number of viral particles and their bodies immune system is able to engage and destroy them. Their immune systems are not being overloaded by sheer numbers.

[The way the CDC is storing this information is by weekly queues. As they receive new information, they continually update their numbers. So the last weekly total is very undercounted and unreliable. But the numbers increase in reliability the further you go back in time. But even taking that into account there is a visible downward trend.]

This pandemic is winding down.


Another week has gone by and I compared the deaths in the U.S. due to the COVID-19 numbers by the CDC.
Deaths went up another 8,071.
Oh My!, the world must be ending!!
Not so quick. What do the numbers actually show.

Remember how I said that the deaths are separated by weekly queues. So let us look at the deltas. How the numbers changed from last week to this week.

So when you tabulate these out:

Week Ending------Deaths-----------Deaths------------Delta
-----------------Last Week--------This Week
2/01/2020------- 0------------------0--------------------0
2/08/2020------- 1------------------1--------------------0
2/15/2020------- 0------------------0--------------------0
2/22/2020------- 5------------------5--------------------0
2/29/2020------- 5------------------5--------------------0
3/07/2020------- 33----------------34--------------------1
3/14/2020------- 52-----------------52-------------------0
3/21/2020------- 553---------------561------------------8
3/28/2020------- 3,058------------3,128-----------------70
4/04/2020------- 9,521------------9,909----------------388
4/11/2020------- 15,719----------16,014----------------295
4/18/2020------- 16,374----------16,909----------------535
4/25/2020------- 14,144----------15,225---------------1,081
5/02/2020------- 11,718----------12,979---------------1,261
5/09/2020------- 10,808----------10,963----------------155
5/16/2020------- 8,856-----------8,944------------------88
5/23/2020------- 6,820-----------6,947-----------------127
5/30/2020------- 5,681-----------5,868-----------------187
6/06/2020------- 4,345-----------4,646-----------------301
6/13/2020------- 3,228-----------3,702-----------------474
6/20/2020------- 1,847-----------2,892----------------1,045
6/27/2020------- 464-------------1,675----------------1,211
7/04/2020------- 71---------------643------------------572
7/11/2020------- Nil---------------272------------------272


So those 8,071 deaths did not all occur during the week of 7/11 but rather were spread out over the entire reporting period. Only 272 actually occurred during the week of 7/11. One of those deaths even occurred during the week of March 7 but was reported this week. Around half of these deaths occurred prior to the week of 23 May.


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