https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm
This is a very interesting chart from the CDC.
Table 1. Deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), pneumonia, and influenza reported to NCHS by week ending date, United States. Week ending 2/1/2020 to 5/16/2020.
Take a good look at the columns, especially the “Percent of expected deaths” (the number of deaths for all causes for this week in 2020 compared to the average number across the same week in 2017–2019.)
Click the little blue up/down arrow in the label to sort that column. You will then see when the increased deaths from this pandemic (or something) began and ended.
Specifically, it STARTED the week ending 3/28/2020 and ENDED the week ending 5/02/2020. All weeks before that period and after that period are LOWER than the average of 2017 to 2019.
Let me say that again: This Covid-19 Pandemic resulted in a higher than normal total USA deaths starting on March 21, 2020 and ending on May 02, 2020.
We have had lower than average total deaths in the USA since May 02, according this chart.
This pandemic is now under control.
END the LOCK-DOWN!
Table 2. Deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), pneumonia, and influenza reported to NCHS by jurisdiction of occurrence, United States. Week ending 2/1/2020 to 5/16/2020 is even more interesting.
Sort the “Percent of expected deaths” to display which states had the worst impacts from this pandemic.
I’ll leave it to all of you to analyze those results.
Some caution is in order here: a disease outbreak is not considered controlled until 2 incubation periods have passed without any new cases. For Covid-19, that means 4 weeks must pass, since the incubation period is 2-14 days. There are still over 20,000 new cases per day in the US.
Lifting the lock-downs before robust contact tracing and testing programs are in place can cause the virus to pick right back up on its original spread.
Here’s the chart in jpg form. What’s interesting is the categories show the wool that’s being pulled over our eyes.
At the beginning of May, that pneumonia deaths column was listed as pneumonia with influenza deaths. . . Now influenza has a separate column all by its lonesome. . . And it was always much larger than the pneumonia with Covid-19 column numbers. Note that the combined totals in the last column don’t ever add up. When I found this chart in the fIrst week of May, the CDC was revising their COVID19 death count downward, but the number on their homepage didn’t change, just kept going up. On THIS page and chart, it was adjusted downward. The number on the front page was essentially the COMBINED COVID19 plus influenza pneumonia and deaths from other causes number! It’s still that way. It was inflated by about 25% and still is!
I have repeatedly said the problem now is the state governor-dictators are trying to move the goal posts.
Even the “flattening the curve” meme was not the goal. Flattening the curve was only what they looked at as a means to a(the) goal. The real goal was a health care system that was not overwhelmed by Wuhan Virus cases.
THAT has already been accomplished. Moving the goal posts now to “contact tracing” and “testing” goals has nothing to do with anything essential. America’s health care system is now managing our Wuhan Virus cases without being overwhelmed - “mission accomplished”.
Extending ANY economic restrictions now has nothing to do with ANYTHING other than keeping controls for the sake of keeping controls.