“links to the stats would be appreciated”
https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailycases (select Michigan and Cumulative deaths from the dropdown menus). Michigan likely has their own State site.
“It would seem MNJohnnie is using short term data”
Only for the deaths, and then using total numbers for population, to produce a distorted ratio of risk. His contention that COVID deaths are trivially few, is untrue. It has been more than twice as deafly as any other pandemic in the last 100 years. More Americans have died from it than from combat in WWII. Current daily deaths of about 2,000 per day in the USA, is about an Infantry Brigade’s worth, each day.
“I’d be interested in learning exactly why spike is occurring?”
There are multiple variables, but the main driver is the much higher infectiousness (and moderately more immune evasiveness) of the Delta variant, which is now more than 99% of the new cases.
There are multiple variables, but the main driver is the much higher infectiousness (and moderately more immune evasiveness) of the Delta variant, which is now more than 99% of the new cases.
“More Americans have died from it than from combat in WWII.”
94% of Americans who died in combat in WWII did not have an average of four comorbidities, like the CDC says those dying from covid did.