Posted on 01/16/2022 4:51:58 PM PST by SeekAndFind
A high-end estimate of up to 88,000 deaths and over 1 million hospital admissions could follow the ongoing wave of the COVID-19 pandemic over the next four weeks as the virus moves toward claiming nearly 900,000 lives in the United States alone, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In an ensemble forecast, which combines data from diverse independent team forecasts on the pandemic, published Monday and updated on Wednesday, the CDC stated its low and high estimates on how many COVID-19 related deaths will likely occur from Jan. 10 to Feb. 5.
“This week’s national ensemble predicts that the number of newly reported COVID-19 deaths will likely increase over the next 4 weeks, with 10,400 to 31,000 new deaths likely reported in the week ending February 5,” the agency noted.
The CDC report states that the ensemble forecasts have been “among the most reliable forecasts in performance over time" but "do not reliably predict rapid changes in the trends of reported cases, hospitalizations, and deaths." Additionally, the forecasts should not be relied on “for making decisions about the possibility or timing of rapid changes in trends.”
The agency notes that recent “national total death forecasts have shown low reliability, with more reported deaths than expected falling outside the forecast prediction intervals.”
“Therefore, national total death forecasts will continue to be collected and analyzed but will not be summarized until sustained improvements in performance are observed,” the CDC stressed.
The outlook for new reported COVID-19 hospital admissions includes forecasts from 9 modeling groups, each of which contributed a forecast for at least one jurisdiction, the CDC said. However, the “models make various assumptions about the levels of social distancing and other interventions, which may not reflect recent changes in behavior.”
For the period Jan. 10 to Feb. 4, the current forecast for COVID-19 hospitalizations is a cumulative total that could be as high as 1,017,725 or as low as 528,509.
Daily new COVID-19 hospitalizations could be as low as 38,534 or as high as 47,964 on Feb. 4 alone. However, the highest daily prediction for hospitalizations is shown for Jan. 30 when the ensemble forecast says there could be as many as 49,276 hospitalizations.
“Reported daily new hospital admissions can vary due to variable staffing and inconsistent reporting patterns within the week. Thus, daily variations in the reported numbers and the forecasts may not fully represent the true number of confirmed COVID-19 hospital admissions in each jurisdiction on a specific day,” the agency said.
The latest data from the CDC also shows that the fast-spreading omicron variant of COVID-19 has been responsible for more than 98% of new infections as of Jan. 8.
A recently published study of nearly 70,000 COVID-19 patients in California found that while the omicron variant now represents the majority of new infections, it is associated with “reduced risk of severe clinical endpoints and shorter durations of hospital stay.”
CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky noted on Wednesday that the majority of the people dying from COVID-19 deaths now are still from the delta variant.
“Given the sheer number of cases, we may see deaths from omicron, but I suspect the deaths we’re seeing now are still from delta,” she said.
She also pointed to the recent California study and said the findings are consistent with data from South Africa and the United Kingdom, which could help the U.S. understand what will happen over the next few weeks.
“The risk of hospitalization remains low — especially among people who are up to date on their Covid vaccines,” she said. “However, the staggering rise in cases, over 1 million new cases each day, has led to a high number of total hospitalizations.”
In a briefing on Thursday, President Joe Biden said his administration was securing 500 million additional at-home rapid COVID-19 tests to meet demand around the country and would double the number of tests the U.S. plans to send to the public free of charge.
Lines for free testing for COVID-19 have stretched for blocks in some cities, and pharmacies have been struggling to keep up with the demand for rapid tests, The Wall Street Journal reported.
Some families are still reportedly spending hundreds of dollars on testing due to the crisis, while others are forgoing testing altogether.
President Biden urged Americans to either get vaccinated or boosted as the omicron variant surges across the country.
“Both vaccinated and unvaccinated people are testing positive, but what happens after that couldn’t be more different,” he said, noting that unvaccinated people who get COVID-19 are 17 times more likely to be hospitalized than those who get vaccinated.
That 17X number is that based on the latest rates? like within the last 30 days or are they going back to the beta strain to get those stats?
I cannot count the ways in which I do NOT believe that statistic. Oh well, it’s the media. They’re the ones who originated the Barbie “Math is hard” meme.
That’s like a snowfall forecast of “6 to 18 inches”
I’ll take the Under. By a bunch.
Too many bullshit numbers are being thrown around as true.
Yawn.... Sure kid.
The author knows Biden is lying but quotes him anyway. Also noticed how they didn’t say “fully vaccinated” but instead said “up to date” meaning BOOSTERS.
97% of scientist agree!
Ironic you should (mis)quote Barbie, which originated from Mattel, not the media. The quote was “Math class is tough”. Yes, science is tough. Reading statistics is challenging. And there is a reason unvaccinated are dying at a higher rate, all things equal, than their vaccinated peers.
IGNORING_NATURAL_IMMUNITY_PING
Funny, CDC states that of those who died WITH COVID, 75% had 4 or more serious Co-Morbidities
And after years of lies; after seeing strokes and heart attacks among children considered the new “normal”; we are expected to blindly accept this tripe?
No one believes their freaking lies, anymore.
Wait just a doggone minute. Weren’t we supposed to already have millions of dead in the streets already? It’s now mid-January and Biden said this was going to be the winter-o-death. The dead should be piled up like cord wood by now.
X17 if you have vitamin D deficiency and diabetes or heart disease.
Though shalt not tell lies
So then this forecast is nonsense.
Especially for omicron that has a history of turning on a dime.
For some reason (and I suspect not for your long-term health), our government officials really, really, want everyone to be vaccinated. The more they yell at me about it, the less I trust them.
It has been shown that you can catch and spread the virus even if you have received two vaccines plus a “booster”, so why is the CDC and other officials still pushing for everyone to get this vaccine?
IGNORE NATURAL IMMUNITY AND CON THE PEOPLE is the subtext of every medical pronouncement from the government. We cannot trust the medical (or any other member of the) ‘establishment.’ Pray and prep!
They’re trying to cover for the $hot AEs. They cannot be more obvious.
i don’t care how much China fiddles their figures. something is VERY, VERY WRONG with the following numbers:
Statista: Coronavirus (COVID-19) deaths worldwide per one million population as of January 14, 2022, by country
#154 China: total deaths = 4,849; 3.47 deaths per million
#18 USA: total deaths = 842,632; 2,567.13 deaths per million
#1 Peru: total deaths = 203,157; 6,248.97 deaths per million
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/
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