Posted on 06/26/2020 7:24:04 PM PDT by george76
On Sunday a major positive milestone was reached for the first time, coronavirus deaths declined by 90% in this country from the high set on April 21st. That’s an incredibly positive story about our national battle with the virus. Yet, shockingly, it has received almost no media attention.
(UPDATE: On Monday deaths were also down 90% from the April 21st peak, meaning there were two straight days this occurred, again, with almost zero media coverage).
That’s indefensible because this is not complicated data to track down. You can see it yourself on this chart here, on April 21st 2,693 people died of the coronavirus. Yesterday 267 died. Putting that number into perspective, an average of 7200 people died on Sunday of something other than the coronavirus and those deaths received almost no media attention at all.
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That’s a monstrous 90% drop in deaths the space of two months, a tremendous sign of positivity which clearly suggests that the worst of the coronavirus outbreak has now passed. But the media mostly ignored it in favor of a continuing embrace of fear porn.
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Put simply, the mainstream media doesn’t exist to inform any longer, it exists to emote.
Worse than that, rather than share the actual factual data, they are now selling you stories that are simply not true.
Rather than talk about the good news — deaths have plummeted across the country over the past two months
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The data is clear: it’s way past time for all lockdowns to be over and for almost everyone to be back to work.
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There was nobody left for Cuomo to kill.
Deaths lag cases by 2 weeks.
“Deaths lag cases by 2 weeks.”
That is absolutely true. It will be interesting to see how this huge surge of cases this week translates to deaths.
There have been big advances in treatment, so hopefully deaths do not surge as much as cases have surged.
“Deaths lag cases by 2 weeks”
Yes, it does. That is why cases rising for the last 30 days while at the same time the 7 day rolling average of death declining rapidly to new lows while cases rise tells one something more is at work, that the virus may be losing its severity and potency further helped by the fact that the health sector has learned how to deal with new therapies for the more severe cases
of course
they can’t acknowledge anything that might possibly come across as “Trump good”
doesnt fit the fake news memes they are pushing 24/7 nonstop until and after he wins again
The ‘huge’ surge of cases are mostly old cases that are now getting tested. They’ve had the virus but were not symptomatic. They stayed indoors with other asymptomatic family members.
Now they are coming out and getting tested.
90 % is a bit of cherry picking but the point is 100% true.
The MSM cherry pick and distorts to make things bad.
Here it really is down, using a running average of 7 days it’s down 70% which is huge.
And New York still is at the forefront in deaths (2nd behind CA).
The media tells people it’s running wild over the country.
But the disease is mostly fatal only for the old and infirm.
So the death rate should stay low.
True
But as the article points out, the average age of many of these new cases in FL is around 30. Otherwise healthy people, age 30, don't die from COVID.
Increase in cases coincides with increase in testing.
There are two types of tests: 1) “molecular amplification” tests (RT-PCR) to see if you are currently sick and 2) antibody tests to see if you had the disease in the past but are not currently sick.
When the press talks about testing, I believe they are talking about #1 (current infection, currently ill), not #2 (past infection, not ill today). If that is true, then it cannot be that the case surge we are seeing is old cases as those would only be identified by #2.
There is a big increase in hospital admissions in many states. The news the past couple days is quite a few hospitals are at their max capacity. If increased testing were identify asymptomatic cases, they would not need hospitalization.
The increased cases AND the increased hospitalizations is worrying. As another poster said, we’ll see what happens to the death rate in 2 or 3 weeks.
Winning
And we are UNMOVABLE.
MAGA
There's an big increase in non COVID admissions in hospitals. All of those admissions are being tested and some test positive for COVID.
So, there's that.
Fun facts for Florida:
Record HIGH number of new cases: 8,933
Record LOW number of deaths: 6
This is for 6/25/2020.
Those numbers might change as straggling data comes in. But it is still very striking. There were 11 deaths the previous day, also a record low.
I understand that deaths can be expected to lag cases. However daily cases have been going up for some time with deaths remaining level and now falling.
The view has been expressed in Italy and Great Britain that the virus is “weakening.” I’m not sure why a virus would weaken. But it does seems to account for the facts, regardless of the reason.
I think it is not a weakening of the virus, but application of knowledge learned the past few months - less intubation, anticoagulants, prone positioning, HCQ+AZ+Z, other meds.
The press is not only unethical, they are retarded as well.
Listen instead to red state governor offices. Today the Lieutenant Governor of Texas gave a clear and informed explanation. He definitely knows what’s going on. Of course, fake news won’t air him but he’s on YouTube.
Deaths have been going down for well over a month and are currently at lowest levels since March.
That is way way longer than two weeks. This hoax is over.
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