WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Deaths in USA 2/11/2022: 1,917 with 149,318 new cases

Worldometer ^ | February 11, 2022

[MinorityRepublican]

Places with highest daily reported cases per capita

Seven-day average of daily new reported cases per 100,000 residents

[Owen]

Several big states missing. IL, TN a few others. IL will kick it over 2000 by itself. I’ll target about 2200 dead for today when the laggards are in.

A descent slope is forming for the Spring. Angle looks more like Sept than last winter. This is not how it should be. Vax was just barely underway last Feb/March and deaths plummeted. The senior pop is well vaxed now, but deaths are falling in a more shallow way.

[SaxxonWoods]

Colorado doing very well, hospitalizations down 50% over about the last 30 days. New cases continue to drop quickly.

Death rate has gone nowhere in 2.5 months.

[SaxxonWoods]

You like death, don’t you Owen.

You never speak of anything else.

[Owen]

The chroniclers at Oxen Ford in 1348 carefully noted the deaths each Friday. They were academically oriented clerics (it later became Oxford) and it was they that discovered how bubonic plague became pneumonic.

Weekly death counts of 10, 11, 10, 12, 13 and then suddenly 150, 170, 300 in given villages around. The bacteria lasted long enough to reach the lungs in someone. The coughing began. Exhalations then infected. No rats or fleas req’d any longer.

They didn’t track how many people were in bed. They didn’t track how many got doctor visits. They tracked deaths. Because that’s the purest parameter subject to very little interpretation.

[MinorityRepublican]

You have to remember during the initial outbreak in NYC back in spring of '20, they did not do any testing. A study found that more than 1.7 million New Yorkers -- about 20 percent of the city's population -- have already been infected with the virus, known as SARS-CoV-2, and that the infection fatality rate of the virus is close to 1 percent, ten times deadlier than the flu.

Back then, you sucked it up if you caught the virus. Now you can't return to work or school unless you tested negative.

But we've been consistent in reporting deaths.

Now with the case counts, we have an idea of how bad the spread is in an area. But the scenario that occured in NYC is not going to happen again because we've all acquired immunity against a novel virus.

We'll continue to get hit by variants in the future. Looks like they will continue to get nasty. We are hoping that this is the last major variant but I don't think so. We will see a lull, yes. But it'll be temporary.

A lot of this stuff going around so plenty of opportunities for the virus to mutate so not much we can do to stop that from happening for the time being.

[roving]

[roving]

But we’ve been consistent in reporting deaths
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You have been consistent in showing fake graphs. It was proven fake

[Paul R.]

On some other thread I believe I mentioned my wife has several family members & friends in Philippines who were probably sick enough with Omicron to be hospitalized a day or two here, but in RP most people don't go to the hospital unless financially pretty well off, or, very sick. None of this group died, that I know of, but it seemed to me quite a lot of those "fairly sick" cases dragged on, certainly more than a cold or even most flu cases. Maybe that extends the opportunity for a complication or bacterial infection?

Troubling Omicron post case peak fatalities' curves seem to be somewhat common. I know you've mentioned S. Africa: While I would expect calmly (is that cold of me?) SA's Omicron wave fatalities to rise above the "bottom" between Delta and Omicron, it is more noteworthy to me that SA's Omicron fatalities are still rising, 8 weeks after SA's (very sharply defined) Omicron case peak.

[Paul R.]

2 clarifications:

SFAIK, one of the family / friends that I mentioned in RP w/ significant COVID cases was vaccinated. But, my wife says “she’s always sick”. SFAIK the rest who were vaxed have been fine (asymptomatic or extremely mild cases at most.)

My wife and I don’t know directly of anyone vaccinated who had a really severe or worse case of COVID (any variant), a stark contrast to those unvaccinated, given the size of the group monitored. (I still support the truckers, though!)

[Owen]

Interesting. I thought the Philippines had govt hospitals and for the rich, private hospitals. The former had enormously long queues.

Phils and SA both have young life expectancies. Until a variant moves things leftward on the age graph, the concept of dying before Covid can get them is in play.

SA 203 today, that is below same day last week by a handful.

Northern hemisphere moving into springtime. The virus will have all sorts of reservoirs. Time will pass, seasons change, vax will age. No telling when the next surge arrives.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

As of 12 February 2022,

WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Deaths in China 2.11.2002: 4,636 deaths, with 99 new cases

Total cases 106,863 | New Cases 99 | New Deaths 0 | Total Deaths 4,636 | Total Recovered 100,791 | Active cases 1,436

Population 1,439,323,776

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/#countries

Trust the site. Trust the numbers. Trust the site? Trust the numbers?

[Paul R.]

Philippines does have gov’t hospitals, but, as you said, the queues are crazy long unless you can bribe somebody, which takes more money than most people can easily come up with. One of my sisters in law is a barangay captain and was fairly sick (she’s the “always sick” person). She rode it out at home, apparently figuring she’d either be mostly recovered or critical by the time she could get in at the hospital.

[Owen]

Interesting. Not surprised.

There are many US vets there. I think the VA has a facility in Manila. The only place outside the US with one. If qualified, clearly the superior option. Not a hospital, tho.