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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And for the three days (Thu, Fri, Sat) since, the number of deaths reported have crashed well below the seven day running average, ya stupid bunch of CNN morons.
LOL....can’t wait for our President to be Inaugurated for four more years and put a stop to this nonsense!!!
This is all a lie and scare tactics.
Any death can be called a covid death.
If they have any ONE symptom like a temp or pneumonia, they mark it as a covid death. They probably adding flu deaths in to the mix.
It is insane and the hospitalists must do as they are told.
Agreed.
GARBAGE NEWS! they are our enemies and they are working for the enemy. We know the truth
The summer peak was part of the spring peak. Each peak had different states.
The current peak is being experienced by all states at the same time.
You can't compare the current peak, with the summer peak. It's apples and oranges you f***ing CNN idiots.
Leana Sheryle Wen (Chinese...; born January 27, 1983) is an American physician and writer. She is a practicing physician, a former Health Commissioner for the City of Baltimore, a former president of Planned Parenthood, and author of the book When Doctors Don’t Listen: How to Avoid Misdiagnoses and Unnecessary Tests. Currently, she is a visiting professor of Health Policy and Management at the George Washington University, where she is a Distinguished Fellow in the Fitzhugh Mullan Institute for Health Workforce Equity.[1] She is also a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution.[2]
n my area hospitalizations are way up. fortunately deaths are fairly stable meaning the death rate is dropping substantially. That said there are still some folks getting very sick. of course the state keeps doubling down on stupid increasing restrictions with no change in the rise in infection rates at all
This is a nasty bug for the elderly or people with comorbidities. The governors should do what they can LEGALLY to protect them without destroying the lives of everyone else.
Ultimately, this highly-contagious but not very lethal virus for most healthy people is here to stay. We need to live with it without freaking out, like we do with other low-fatality but highly disruptive phenomena like the flu, halitosis, dandruff, and of course Bon Jovi.
She agrees this is all overblown and silly.
She still abides by the Covid rules, though.
Me too!!!
Enough of this absurdity, already.
One Twitterer suggested that it’s possible the first people who get the vaccine will get a placebo. Just think on that for a moment.
On another note, at Thanksgiving dinner a relative who works in a mortuary says they’ve been slow for months. If all these people are dying, why are the mortuaries empty?
Tells you all you need to know.
Why not report that the number of deaths is at a low not seen since March? Because the idea is to scare you into compliance and to force you to get a questionable vaccine.
You left out “FILM AT 11”.
:-)
BTW Everyone knows CNN and what we're up against with that propaganda machine.
There’s a reason Black men could vote before women.
Yes- and they deleted the Johns Hopkins report showing the covid deaths must be being misreported because total deaths have not increased, but deaths from other diseases have....The pandemic seems as fraudulent as the election.
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