How high will it go? As Covid-19 death toll in U.S. blows past 60,000, there are no easy answers

STAT ^ | April 30, 2020 | SHARON BEGLEY and HYACINTH EMPINADO

[rfp1234]

Biden just said it’s “600,000” now.

[Kid Shelleen]

From the twitter feed of Dinesh D'Souza

Just like that, CDC reduces its #Coronavirus death count to 37,000. That’s nearly HALF the total they were peddling. Did 30,000 people spring back to life like Lazarus? No, this seems a “gaffe”—defined as a case of the CDC accidentally telling the truth

https://twitter.com/DineshDSouza/status/1256641587708342274

[rfp1234]

Hmmm, where? CDC now says over 64k.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html

[MinorityRepublican]

That’s an incomplete count.

[Cronos]

Florida has a completely different climate and population density.

[MinorityRepublican]

This is a winter virus. It’ll be gone by mid May. I have said so from the start. You might get some additional cases and deaths until June one. Then nothing

I haven't read anything to confirm what you're saying. Besides they're having problems in Ecuador which is a tropical country the last time I checked.

[magna carta]

that’s my feeling pal

[a fool in paradise]

CDC only ever plays with “estimates” and the stats we’ve been seeing from 2009-2010 are the “middle” estimate, could actually have been twice as many (and some indications are that was the case).

today’s estimates have high bias.

[datura]

Thank you for posting- I’m going to look into that now. Very promising.

[datura]

Oddly enough, BHT is commonly found in lychee fruit, which is very popular in China. Maybe that helped some of them.

[dp0622]

So then stay home and let the rest of us live life. Fearing death isn’t living

[dp0622]

The ignorance on this board based on hatred of the Northeast is hysterical.

I want I wonder if cases explode in a state not up here if you guys will post at all.

[Kid Shelleen]

Check out Table 1. Not sure how up to date but it says May 1 see data as of May 1.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/index.htm

[Calif Conservative]

Kaga. Thankfully our heroes destroyed her and her 3 sisters on 6-4-1942

Better to stick to KAG, and ditch KAGA

[rfp1234]

Aha! When comparing Worldometer cumulative US deaths on 4/25, the number was 54,256.

If you subtract the CDC pneumonia deaths (16,564) you get 37,692.

That is statistically the same as what CDC reported for April 25 on Table 1 (37,308).

It appears that US COVID-19 deaths are being overestimated by many web sites, by adding all Pneumonia deaths and assuming they're all caused by COVID-19. That would mean today's US total is ~67k, but actual number may be closer to 50-51K.

[databoss]

60,000 is a big huge lie.

[VideoDoctor]

Almost Zero. It’s 0.00018 per capita, or 18 per 100,000.

Careful there Captain Dave... you're making FAR TOO MUCH SENSE with those stats.

You'll be ATTACKED for spreading the facts.

[VideoDoctor]

Say!...let us know when you go.

We'll drop by your plot for a word.

Loved it!

Spoken like a true American with real COMPASSION.

[Nifster]

Ecuador always has problems

You are only paying attention to Fauci and Birx

[Nifster]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-covid-19-pandemic-could-end1/%3famp=true

For your perusal