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TX Yesterday reported deaths = 10
Daily average past 7 days: 30
.34 deaths per million
Rank among states: 31
Test results reported 1.8 million
US deaths: 332 -60%
Daily avg past 7 days : 808
Test results reported 31.5 million
It looks like that “.34 deaths per million” is the number of deaths over the past week as a proportion of population. That is a different metric than what I have been looking at. I’m more concerned with case fatality rates than the population fatality rate. When there are more cases (and the number of cases continues to grow), the population fatality rate will increase. That isn’t necessarily what happens with case fatality rates—more cases does not automatically translate to a higher case fatality rate.
Texas has 163,060 confirmed cases, 2455 deaths, and 84,818 recoveries. This is a death rate of 1.5%, recovery rate of 52.0%, and total of 53.5% resolved cases.
Also, I have no idea where the notion that hospitals are diagnosing everything as Covid-19 came from. They’re going to get paid for diagnosing/treating patients regardless of the diagnosis. Furthermore, every Covid-19 diagnosis is resource-intensive for the hospital, which is hardly an ideal way to cut costs to make the bean counters happy.
In Maryland, there are two categories for Covid-19 deaths: those that are confirmed by laboratory testing, and those which are presumptive pending laboratory test results. I assume that other states are keeping similar categories.