Posted on 01/05/2022 6:45:30 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Places with highest daily reported cases per capita
Seven-day average of daily new reported cases per 100,000 residents
Cases skyrocketing in Colorado, deaths falling, hospitalizations of people with Covid up slightly. Number of people hospitalized directly due to Covid severity not revealed.
Positivity rate 26.7%.
Omicron shown as virtually all new cases in the past week.
Omicron appears to be the fat lady singing on the pandemic.
The faster it spreads, the faster it burns out. Positive Test numbers aren’t even close to the actual cases. 4 people I personally know, got it and didn’t bother get tested.
This is the variant we needed last July.
NY is interesting. Their huge peak of Aprilish 2020 derived mostly from zero awareness and skillset. Their subways were packed with no masks. And zero effort was being taken to protect nursing homes. So the Springtime 2020 disaster in NY was right there.
But even last winter their surge was much less. No vax to speak of last Jan. Their peak was still quite low, because people are not insane and they learned things.
They also had some residual immunity from the Springtime.
Now there is vax getting old and recovery immunity getting old and NY is not insulated anymore.
And let’s just put reality on the table. Politics get zero respect in this — and because of that let’s recognize that Florida is redefining covid death somehow and yielding bizarre single digit results unmatched by Mississippi, Alabama, Texas or other deep red states regardless of population. It’s horribly deceptive. Someone has to track down what policy change happened a few months ago.
Poor Owen. You still think masks stop the covid.
Masks certainly don’t stop it on a packed subway. Which btw was the point.
Worth noting another tidbit.
Florida, even with the current cratering of daily death count, places 15th on the list of states with worst deaths/million population with 2912.
The US average among states is 2579. Texas 2639.
Vermont and Hawaii have done best at 772 and 773.
Are you aware that Florida has an older than average population?
I think that is true, though I don’t know if so year round. Lots of vacationers in summer. We’re not talking about voter registration or domicile here. We’re just talking about what state a dying Covid patient was in when he punched out.
They had a big peak about 3-4 mos ago. It dragged their deaths/million sharply up. I’m just complaining other red state places had late summer peaks and are not reporting single digit daily deaths. Something is amiss there.
It may get revealed when their next peak begins.
Florida is second.
Ever heard of the term ‘snowbirds’? Lots of elderly escape the northern climes this time of year. You certainly must know that.
Maine is pretty surprising.
Ya, lots of oldsters, and yeah, snowbirds, but spring break and summer influx for disneyworld are pretty big young numbers.
I’m sure the official numbers look at addresses registered. It won’t capture vacationers.
Shrug. The point is actually contrary. If they are older, they should be having bigger Covid numbers right now. Something is not right.
Here is what they count as covid deaths.
A coroner in Colorado is sounding the alarm over how deaths in her county are being counted and attributed to Wuhan coronavirus.
“The coroner, Brenda Bock, says two of their five deaths related to COVID-19 were people who died of gunshot wounds,” CBS News Denver reports. “Bock says because they tested positive for COVID-19 within the past 30 days, they were classified as ‘deaths among cases.’”
They certainly don't. And they certainly don't anywhere else in the earth.
Actually not correct
This is a list of U.S. states, the District of Columbia and territories by median age in 2019. Median age is the age that divides a population into two numerically equal groups - that is, half the people are younger than this age and half are older. It is a single index that summarizes the age distribution of a population.
Rank State, Median age
1 Maine . . . . . . 45.0
2 Puerto Rico . . . . . . 43.6
3 New Hampshire . . . . . . 43.1
4 Vermont . . . . . . 43.0
5 West Virginia . . . . . . 42.9
6 Florida . . . . . . 42.5
7 U.S. Virgin Islands . . . . . . 41.8
8 Connecticut . . . . . . 41.1
8 Delaware . . . . . . 41.1
10 Pennsylvania . . . . . . 40.8
Maine has led the list for several years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_and_territories_by_median_age
Your source is a bit dodgy.
Percentage of population over age 65
That is not median age which is the data point used to determine oldest populations.
Excess Deaths have always been the solution to with vs of. But regardless of that, the absolute numbers matter a great deal less than trends, and as long as criteria are constant, you will get meaningful information from the trend.
Useful to note that patients being admitted for Covid, not for car accident, only get admitted based on the VA study that specifies a blood oxygen level. People who come to the ER desperate to get tested, and get tested, and are positive, are not admitted unless that number is met.
Gunshots and car accidents corrupt data, but it’s pretty rare. Those events die quickly, probably before the PCR test results are returned.
I would suggest as wrong as they are, they should not be changed. Those curves on the graphs need to mean something. If you go changing criteria, you won’t have a valid measure of what measures taken are working or not.
Again, go spend some time with Excess Deaths. They are ALL CAUSES. They are insulated from this attribution stuff.
The Worldometers chart has a column for deaths/million population. You can see it yourself.
PA is 2899 (better than FL)
NY is 3111 (worse than FL)
NJ is 3288 (worse than FL)
MI is 2970 (worse than FL)
MD is 1984 (much better than FL)
Not sure what case you were trying to make.
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