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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I say it’s /because/ of the vaccines
However since the Covid-19 hysteria has been pushed, this is way way down, because the normal flu deaths are being renamed covid-19 deaths.
Basic reality is that the virus behind covid-19 is ubiquitous now just like all the other viruses that give us colds and flu. Its nothing more or less remarkable at this point then the others--apart from our disastrous and very very stupid over reaction to it.
Fake news.
I do 10000 D3
Prove it.
It ain’t a vaccination. It is some kind of bizzare experimental shot.
Perhaps because the COVID bonus payments to hospitals is still in effect??
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Bingo! Because it is to someone’s political advantage to claim cause of death was covid.
How many jabs have u had?
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None, praise God, despite the most intense pressure.
I went into our local Walmart pharmacy recently, to get my usual medicine. Surprisingly, the technician asked if I had my flu shot, but not my Covid shot! I guess they must not be as worried about it as they once were, for her to only ask if I had received the flu shot!
Probably one of the deadliest drugs ever used
I didn't know that.
so, some technician at the pharmacy is now an expert?
I had minor surgery last month and wasn’t even asked during the online check-in whether I was vaxxed for Covid. The word “Covid” was never even mentioned by the surgeon, anesthesiologist, or any of the nurses at any time. They didn’t ask whether I’d had a flu shot either.
Yes, it’s pretty interesting the stuff he wrote that was recorded by so many others.
I don’t remember where I sourced this, so I could be wrong but I recall Gregg Allman saying an interview that Hoyt Axton is the guy who taught him how to write songs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-7WpPk00jA
Right! I didn’t have to wear a mask when I went to my doctor’s appointment in the late Summer, either. They suggested I get shots for Pneumonia, Flu, Shingles, and yes, Covid, but they didn’t insist on it (Covid) only!
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