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Posted on 07/10/2020 3:35:20 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
PITTSBURGH — UPMC doctors said the majority of new COVID-19 cases are in young people, and those cases aren’t as severe.
Thursday marked the lowest COVID-19 case increase in Allegheny County this week with 158 new cases, 12 more hospitalizations and no new deaths.
“Our testing data indicates these cases are largely linked to younger people who contracted the virus while traveling or while socializing without masks or proper distance,” said Dr. Graham Snyder, UPMC Medical Director of Infection Prevention.
At a news conference Thursday, Snyder and other officials said the average age of COVID-19 patients is under 30, and because of that, the cases are not as severe.
“Despite more people testing positive, often younger people, we are not seeing the same pattern of increase in severe cases,” Senior Medical Director Dr. Donald Yealy said.
In the UPMC health system, 118 people were hospitalized, and the average age of those people was over 60. Doctors are not seeing the same mortality rate and hospitalizations rate, they announced Thursday. The rate of asymptomatic people, patients confirmed to have COVID-19 but showing no symptoms was 0.27%.
(Excerpt) Read more at wpxi.com ...
gov and pet tranny wont like that.
mommy is protected, and they demand conservatives
die already for their political and economic reasons.
I heard rioting or looting or burning police precincts or Wendy’s or beating up older white people or trashing neighborhoods or pulling down statues makes you immune.
they must because they are the only things allowed to happen in large numbers now, according to my German mayor
Socializing.
Snort.
Well, that’s a nice euphemism for it.
NYS and its county health departments are also hiding any protest/riot connections to cases.
Summertime. Days are longer. More exposure to the sun. People have higher vitamin D levels. Fewer COVID deaths. Cases less severe. What if people took a vitamin D supplement as Fall approaches?
an hour ago, on ABC News Radio in Australia, the news bulletin consisted of just two stories:
1) a complete run-down of Australia’s almost non-existent covid stats (too minimal to mention)
2) an endless CNN piece featuring multiple scary quotes from FauXi, with Erica Hill, which virtually ignored deaths and didn’t give context re testing:
CNN Transcripts 9 July 2020
[16:00:00]
PAMELA BROWN, CNN HOST: That is the message from Dr. Anthony Fauci, as states across the South and the West continue to break records, California and Florida today reporting a record number of coronavirus deaths, Florida seeing a huge spike in the number of people testing positive for coronavirus there, the positivity rate now more than 18 percent.
So, to put that into context for you, the CDC initially recommended that states with more than 20 percent positivity rates stay shut down. At least a dozen states are seeing hospitalized — most hospitalized coronavirus patients since the pandemic began.
And as intensive care units fill up and PPE shortages are reported yet again, an E.R. doctor tell CNN the scary part is that it’s only going to get worse.
As CNN’s Erica Hill reports, more than 10 percent of the new infections have come just in the last 10 days.
ERICA HILL, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Florida continuing to break records.
DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, NIAID DIRECTOR: For the people who expected to see a sharp decline in the number of cases as the weather became warm and moist, I think we’re seeing that that’s absolutely not the case.
HILL: Exhibit A, the Sunshine State, which just recorded nearly 9,000 new cases and 120 COVID-19 related deaths, a single-day high.
DR. ROSS GOLDBERG, PRESIDENT, ARIZONA MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: We all hoped for a flattening and a stabilization. We haven’t seen it yet.
HILL: Arizona one of nearly a dozen states seeing an uptick in hospitalizations.
FAUCI: Any state that is having a serious problem, that state should seriously look at shutting down.
HILL: In Kentucky, new cases jumped 40 percent in the last week. In Oklahoma, they’re up 45 percent, across the country, 33 states moving in the wrong direction.
DR. OGECHIKA ALOZIE, TEXAS MEDICAL ASSOCIATION: There’s no immediate fix to this. So, we’re going to have to really put in the work to get ahead of this epidemic.
HILL: “The New York Times” reporting PPE could soon become a concern again, noting doctors in Houston have been told to reuse N95 masks, echoing the vice president’s request on Wednesday...
HILL: The state seeing a spike in cases among those under 35. Michigan reporting one in five COVID patients is between 25 and 34 years old.
Meantime, in New York state, the early epicenter, less than 1 percent of tests are now positive for the virus, a sliver of hope amid grim numbers in the new hot spots, positivity rates skyrocketing in Arizona, Texas and Florida...
http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/2007/09/cg.01.html
I suspect a lot of the most vulnerable in urban areas caught it last time - and either died or recovered.
Alex Jones gets a little crazy...as usual...but this treatment is worth noting:
Youtube: 15m: Texas health task force doctor has found the cure for Covid-19, an inhaled steroid, Budesonide.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brmC0njI9Nw
The HERD!
Fauci is evil.
Guess they pulled out gun shot wounds as one cause of COVID death because the person had it but that wasn’t the cause of death; they died of lead poisoning instead.
I get the impression he sits around thinking of new and increasingly asinine ways to spin this sham. That isn’t too difficult considering what a sham it was to begin with.
Not a day goes by that we don’t hear something that makes less sense than what we heard yesterday. Nice going, Doc.
My girlfriend is an RN at one of the larger hospitals here in Pittsburgh. Her hospital set up a “Virus War Room” of sort in one of the conference rooms where a team of Dr.’s and health officials would monitor the outbreak and confer with the other area hospitals. New computers, comms, etc. That room has not been occupied, not even one day, since the outbreak started. It just never got bad enough here. Just the opposite, before the re-opening started happening her hospital, along with others in the area, sent out notices to the nursing staff warning of a decreased availability of Doctors due to having to layoff some of those on staff. Luckily, for her hospital, they decided to start allowing elective procedures and this allowed them to retain MD’s.
The media have changed the focus from deaths to cases. They are waving their hands over the thousands of new cases. Meanwhile the daily death number declines.
They, the MSM, peddled for years that Trump was a deep embedded Russian agent. If you can do that you can do anything.
More information showing why the “number of cases” is not the number to be watching.
THE ONLY number that has been materially important has always been the death rate, whether measured as the number of deaths per the number of cases, or as the number of deaths per a set number of the population (1,000; 100,000; or 1 million). Well the death rate is dying. Many of the lowest hanging fruit - the most susceptible - have died or are now receiving better protection, while the healthiest and those who don’t get so ill from the virus are most of the new infections.
By the end of the year the medical regimen for treating Wuhan Virus cases will have matured in twelve months as much and as far as did the medical treatment of influenza over many years. And. as more of the healthy population
keeps getting its herd immunity (like MOST of the new cases) new cases will also decline to a point where the Wuhan Virus will be no greater an issue (and maybe even less) for the elderly than is regular influenza, and families will be back visiting their loved ones in eldercare.
Again, don’t let them get you panicked over “new cases”. Just watch number of deaths and do the math to to look at death rates as a portion or all cases. As the actual number of deaths remains small or lowering, and the number of new cases keeps adding up, the death rate - how deadly is the virus - keeps shrinking.
CEO of UPMC testifies before PA house GOP 6/24
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15Iw7J7Nl1v3P1vFe3JAyxY3W9LN4xICr/view?usp=sharing
I’m sure this is a result of the CEO for UPMC who should be our Health Secretary. He is a sharp cookie.
Link to his testimony at PA GOP business roundtable on 6/24
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15Iw7J7Nl1v3P1vFe3JAyxY3W9LN4xICr/view?usp=sharing
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