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Why Are 1,500 Americans Still Dying From COVID Every Week?
ABC News ^ | January 10, 2024 | Mary Kekatos

Posted on 01/11/2024 2:00:58 PM PST by nickcarraway

Experts say some Americans aren't accessing available vaccines and treatments.

Why are so many Americans still dying of COVID?

For the week ending Dec. 9, the last week of complete data, there were 1,614 deaths from COVID, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The last four weeks of complete data show an average of 1,488 weekly deaths.

By comparison, there were 163 weekly deaths from the flu for the week ending Dec. 9, according to CDC data.

MORE: JN.1 variant makes up a majority of COVID cases in the US. Here's what to know While high, these COVID death figures are still lower than the high of 25,974 deaths recorded the week ending Jan. 9, 2021, as well as weekly deaths seen in previous winters, CDC data shows.

The current "weekly rate of COVID mortality is similar to what we were getting per day at [the worst] parts of the pandemic. So, proportionally, we're in a completely different place than where we were, thankfully," Dr. Cameron Wolfe, a professor of infectious diseases at Duke University in North Carolina, told ABC News. "But there's still a pretty significant mortality; 1,500 patients dying every week is unacceptable, frankly."

Experts said there are several reasons why people might still be dying from the virus, including not enough people accessing treatments or getting vaccinated as well as waning immunity.

Additionally, if more people get sick, even if in lesser numbers than in previous waves, it will naturally lead to more people becoming hospitalized and, in turn, dying.

"We do have very good vaccines that [researchers] have been

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: covid1984; fakenews
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To: eyeamok

They are still taking people into hospital with covid (supposedly) and giving them the remdesivir and the ventilator. Then they die.

This happened to a guy that lives close to me. His wife never got covid, so I have my doubts.


21 posted on 01/11/2024 2:35:07 PM PST by dforest
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To: nickcarraway

So tying that headline in with another I read on FR just today says that 6000 of the 10,000 people that died from covid world wide last month are Americans.


22 posted on 01/11/2024 2:35:21 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (I'm a nationalist. I'm white. How does that make me racist?)
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To: nickcarraway

Total crapolla.

GIGO. That’s all we get from these pushers.

I think Hoyt Axton had the solution for pushers.


23 posted on 01/11/2024 2:36:11 PM PST by ChildOfThe60s ("If you can remember the 60s....you weren't really there")
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To: nickcarraway

My wife is an ER nurse.
My son is a paramedic with the fire department line.
They are dying because they’re not able to treat them or allowed to treat them for the flu.


24 posted on 01/11/2024 2:36:37 PM PST by NoLibZone (We have the nation we deserve The bad guys are willing to protest and riot while we email.)
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To: nickcarraway

“Why Are 1,500 Americans Still Dying From COVID Every Week?”

Because they aren’t.


25 posted on 01/11/2024 2:43:14 PM PST by caver
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To: Gen.Blather

If she was vaccinated and still caught Covid within a few months of vaccination (immunity wears off in a few months), she may have an impaired immune system.

A person with an impaired immune system only has herd immunity to protect them. Herd immunity works by decreasing the number of sick people who can spread disease. It does not keep a person from getting sick if exposed.

My son got Covid after being vaccinated. It was a mild illness, with some sniffling. Without the immunity in place from the vaccines, he could have become very sick. Hubby and I did not catch Covid, despite this known exposure. We’re both vaccinated.


26 posted on 01/11/2024 2:45:13 PM PST by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: V_TWIN

Pardon my french, but I didn’t believe the mortality data from 2020 to 2022.....why in the world should I believe that shit now?

EXAXTLY!


27 posted on 01/11/2024 2:49:05 PM PST by chuckb87
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To: ClearCase_guy

Yeah... the numbers are made up by those who read the death certificates and tabulate the causes of death recorded on the death certificates.

Every person who dies gets a death certificate (unless they disappeared without a trace). The death certificate records the cause of death. The deaths are reported to state and federal health agencies. The CDC puts out a report every year of how many people died from what. It’s fascinating reading.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/deaths.htm


28 posted on 01/11/2024 2:54:55 PM PST by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: nickcarraway

Because when you die from pneumonia and you happen to have Covid, they call it Covid... When you die from cancer and you happen to have Covid, they call it Covid... When you have a car accident and die, and happen to have Covid, they call it Covid... Death by Covid and death with Covid... Two different things.


29 posted on 01/11/2024 3:01:19 PM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: Owen

“Oddly, 84+ are pretty safe.”

Probably not as mobile as the other age group, and therefore less exposure.


30 posted on 01/11/2024 3:05:59 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: nickcarraway

Most death certificates have the following...

Cause of Death..........
Contributory................

So all they need to add is Covid to the contributory cause and viola... Covid caused the death.... For instance.

Cause of Death... Head chopped off after getting hit by car.
Contributory......... Covid.


31 posted on 01/11/2024 3:12:08 PM PST by jerod (Nazis were essentially Socialist in Hugo Boss uniforms... Get over it!)
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To: nickcarraway
Why are so many Americans still dying of COVID?

Perhaps because the COVID bonus payments to hospitals is still in effect??

32 posted on 01/11/2024 3:14:33 PM PST by fso301
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To: nickcarraway

They aren’t. It’s just pure government propaganda.


33 posted on 01/11/2024 3:16:53 PM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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To: nickcarraway

Overdose deaths due to fentanyl spark debate over treatment Fentanyl fueled unprecedented carnage with 112,000 fatal overdoses.Dec 28, 2023

Close the border!


34 posted on 01/11/2024 3:31:20 PM PST by artichokegrower
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To: nickcarraway

I see 2 obvious possibilities:

1) The government is still paying for COVID deaths, so that’s what’s being reported. Died from the flu? No money! Died from COVID? HERE’S SOME CASH!

2) Lies and fear mongering.


35 posted on 01/11/2024 3:38:56 PM PST by FrankRizzo890
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To: nickcarraway

36 posted on 01/11/2024 3:41:04 PM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: nickcarraway

37 posted on 01/11/2024 4:19:53 PM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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To: nickcarraway

Because they are still jacking the numbers.


38 posted on 01/11/2024 4:25:41 PM PST by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: nickcarraway

Maybe they are dying from the Jabs they took?
How many jabs have u had?


39 posted on 01/11/2024 4:30:26 PM PST by tennmountainman ( (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023 DITTO)
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To: nickcarraway

Why are 2,200 Americans dying of toenail fungus every week?


40 posted on 01/11/2024 4:37:18 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Proudly Clinging To My Guns And My Religion)
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