Posted on 11/28/2020 4:33:14 PM PST by John W
As Thanksgiving week draws to an end, more experts are warning the Covid-19 pandemic will likely get much worse in the coming weeks before a possible vaccine begins to offer some relief.
More than 205,000 new cases were reported Friday -- which likely consists of both Thursday and Friday reports in some cases, as at least 20 states did not report Covid-19 numbers on Thanksgiving. As of Saturday evening, more than 138,000 new cases and 1,100 deaths had been reported, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The US has now reported more than 100,000 infections every day for 26 consecutive days. The daily average in the week to Friday was more than 166,000 -- almost 2.5 times higher than the summer's peak counts in July.
The number of Covid-19 patients in US hospitals reached record levels on Saturday evening, with 91,635 Americans hospitalized with Covid19, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
And daily Covid-19 deaths in the US have been increasing. The daily average across seven days was 1,477 on Friday. But more than 2,100 deaths were reported on each of the two days before Thanksgiving, the first time that level was crossed on consecutive days since late April.
And while there is more good news on the vaccine front, for now Americans need to "hunker down" and prepare for a difficult winter ahead, according to Dr. Leana Wen, an emergency medicine physician and a visiting professor at George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health.
"We cannot let our guard down," she told CNN Friday night. "The vaccines will make a big difference in the spring and the summer; they're not going to make a difference right now."
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This is not the common cold. For most people it is a minor illness but for some it is devastating. Fortunately we are getting better at treating those who become very ill and no lockdowns and masks do not help. There should not be fearmongering but neither should it be underestimated.
You know a few people who got it, and a few died? So they all died?
Don’t you people get tired of being full of shit?
Those very first covid videos out of CHYna were like bad actor movies. What a joke the U.S.A. being in a psychological concentration camp. I remember a guy on a gurney shaking like a snake on an icicle tree.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNPTwk8NAYE
Are you calling me a liar, FRend?
We have several fiends that work in the two big hospitals in our county. Both are almost at 100% full because of covid patients. There having to send all types of other patients to other hospitals it of the Country but are being told those hospitals are starting to fill up.
But sure keep believing this is no worse than the flu.
“White women elected Trump in 2016, and abandoned him in 2020”
Only if you believe Dominion vote counting machines.
It happened. In China. Before they had any kind of methods for treating the disease.
It was thought at first that covid made the eyes bleed. Turned out that they were bleeding because the person suddenly became unconscious from a stroke or heart attack and dropped face-forward in the street, damaging their eyes.
Well, if CNN is saying it, we should really sit up and take note....
OKAY - /s
We have twice as many COVID inpatients this morning as our previous peak in early May 2020. And our criteria for admission are much stricter than in the Spring.
You’re wrong. Those people don’t have covid you’re just making it up to get paid. /s. channeling some of our freeper brethren. Fortunately we are much better at treating it and for the most part people are not as sick as they were in the spring
Ya think?
You're the perfect illustration of the point.
https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/china-covid-lockdown-propaganda
There actually is a middle ground. You can believe the virus is real, different, highly contagious and deadly in specific small groups. And at the same time you can believe our government at all levels, advised by our supposed greatest medical minds, has handled the response all wrong
We already know what decrepit CNN is does, reads, and thinks.
It is wise to keep your eyes on the prize and to not obsess over the enemy which tends to make him loom large in your mind the way the giants looked to the ten unfaithful spies for Israel who “made the heart of the people melt”.
Only Joshua and Caleb had “a different spirt” - one that looked to the Lord and said the giants were bread for them. When it was time to enter the land 40 years later, Joshua and Caleb took ‘em.
We’ve got too many unfaithful spies on FR who melt the heart of the people.
Amen to that!
Romans 8:15 -
“For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.”
Proverbs 29:25 -
“The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.”
2 Timothy 1:7 -
“For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.”
The understanding of the danger is low. The virus is taking less and less time to double in victims. It’s basically the monstrous epidemiology of this disease that is poorly understood. When it gets out of control, it is just that, out of control.
And I would add that the greatest friend of this virus is the Freudian defense mechanism of fantasy, in modern parlance applicable to the present situation, denial.
Three hard-hit areas of NYC are Far Rockaway, Breezy Point, and the southern coast of Staten Island. What does that tell you?
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