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US sets record with over 77,000 COVID cases in one day
nypost ^ | 10/23/2020 | Lia Eustachewich

Posted on 10/23/2020 9:09:03 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

More than 77,000 new cases of COVID-19 were recorded in the US on Thursday alone — setting a new record for daily infections, statistics show.

Thursday’s numbers — 77,640 new cases — eclipsed the previous record set on July 29, when 75,723 new cases were reported, according to a tally by NBC News.

A total of 921 coronavirus-related deaths were also reported on Thursday.

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To: Red Badger

The democrats believe these numbers are real!!


121 posted on 10/23/2020 3:08:44 PM PDT by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: lodi90

I do think that plays into it.


122 posted on 10/23/2020 5:46:50 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (If you're neverTrump at this point, drop the charade, you're just never the United States.)
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To: pepsi_junkie
I live in New Jersey. We havent had 10 deaths in any day since early September. Yet schools are closed, businesses restricted, travel restrictions active, and many many people are saying we need to do more. Because of rising cases IN OTHER STATES!

This paranoia is not OK, unless one supports doing the like to teen drivers and the flu, which are more deadly to those under 18 than Covid-19.

An estimated 1,200 children died in the 2012-2013 flu season [https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/faq.htm] as of Oct 23 2020 the CDC says that there have been only 101 COVID-assigned deaths among children under 18 [https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographics] out of almost 230,000 COVID-19 deaths, and with 92% of all Covid-19 deaths being among those 55 and older [https://lawliberty.org/covids-age-discrimination], with almost all of such having 2 or more Comorbidities [https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Comorbidities] [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7327471]

In addition, less than 10 percent of domestic COVID-19 cases have been among children under 18 (reported 9–11) [https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200910/Over-half-a-million-reported-child-COVID-19-cases-in-the-United-States.aspx] while the vast majority of all persons with severe COVID tend to have other risk factors.[https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6915e3.htm?s_cid=mm6915e3_w] Furthermore up to 90% of persons testing positive via PCR tests have such a low viral load that they are not likely to be contagious, [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.html]

Moreover, the long-term costs in physical and mental health and finances due to this all-ages drastic restrictions when are tremendous.[https://therevolutionaryact.com/studies-the-shutdown-is-not-lives-vs-dollars-its-lives-vs-lives]

123 posted on 10/23/2020 7:58:55 PM PDT by daniel1212 (Trust the risen Lord Jesus to save you as a damned and destitute sinner + be baptized + follow Him)
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To: jospehm20

Then the article you saw was trying to push an agenda by giving you a specific set of data that matched a narrative the author wanted you to believe.

If you look at previous flu seasons, you see that activity will sometimes spike up earlier (in October), but often doesn’t really pick up until November or December. The peak of flu season also shifts, as does the end. Sometimes it’s over by March. Sometimes it drags on into May. Outside of flu season, cases drop significantly. There are still some single digit numbers of cases in the summer, but across 330 million people, that’s virtually nonexistent.

More info here: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/season/flu-season.htm


124 posted on 10/24/2020 8:12:19 AM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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To: pepsi_junkie
"I live in New Jersey. We havent had 10 deaths in any day since early September."

Sept 7th, 9th, and 29th, Oct 13th, 14th, 20th, 21st, and 22nd all had over 10 deaths. I agree with your argument about lockdowns because I think they do a lot more harm than good. But your argument gets undercut when you make statements that are demonstrably inaccurate. Also in New Jersey, cases have risen steadily since early September and deaths have risen steadily since early October (looking at 7-day averages). Again, not a reason to shut anything down. But arguing from a place of fact makes the argument much stronger. My focus is always on the risk/benefit. In this case, the risk is of putting so many businesses OUT of business and putting so many families INTO poverty. Poverty, by the way, being the number one killer of human beings on Earth. And the benefits are highly limited in terms of controlling transmission as people just funnel into the places that aren't closed like grocery stores.

125 posted on 10/24/2020 8:21:19 AM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

I agree with all that but last year still had flu numbers in October and this year doesn’t so far.


126 posted on 10/24/2020 9:13:12 AM PDT by jospehm20
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To: jospehm20

Since the end of September, there have been 36,000 Influenza tests performed and 121 tests that returned positive. So there’s activity, it just isn’t high yet. New Mexico, Idaho, Missouri, Iowa, and Oregon are all seeing flu activity begin to increase in October.

More info here: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/index.htm


127 posted on 10/24/2020 11:53:13 AM PDT by 2aProtectsTheRest (The media is banging the fear drum enough. Don't help them do it.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

It’s going to be “All Rona, All The Time” up to the election.


128 posted on 10/24/2020 11:54:08 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

When I looked at the article with the graphs a week or so ago I think it said 60 some cases in the country. I know this is the time of year the flu generally kicks off. Not anything to do with this but I was pretty sick in Afghanistan in January and the medical folks told me it was an unknown virus. Is it still counted as flu if they can’t identify it? Just curious.


129 posted on 10/24/2020 12:06:07 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-8875201/Has-Covid-killed-flu.html


130 posted on 10/24/2020 6:35:50 PM PDT by jospehm20
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To: 2aProtectsTheRest
September 7 and 9 were on labor day week, check national and many if not all states, they skew the numbers upwards as the weekend data (which is unusually low) catch up after the holiday. Tuesdays are always high, Saturdays are always low due to staff being lax in reporting on the weekend an sweeping the numbers up in the early week. That's why you don't look at raw daily numbers, you look at 7-day moving average which smooths those flaws out. The 7 day moving average, which smooths for bursts on the days after weekends, has only exceeded 10 on Oct 22 and 23 over the period I cited.

But if you want to go with actual daily numbers since I didn't say 'the seven day moving avage we can do that. If I had said 'under 10 for all but 8 days, which were all under 20 deaths' would that really make my point invalid and we are indeed having a COVID problem in NJ? We were having a problem when it was around 300 deaths a day, not now. Seems pedantic to me to quibble over whether deaths were 9 or 16 on a few days along the way.

We've had over roughly 18,000 or more cases in the state every day since mid August. Weigh that against 'the death figures. My point stands, cases do not translate into deaths, period, and should not be replacing that as the yardstick.

But predictably, politicians will never voluntarily return the power they seized. They are clinging to it like they would a life preserver in they fell overboard at sea with 30 foot swells. They will find some metric to justify it, or they'll invent a new public health crisis like racism or global warming and keep them to 'fight' that.

131 posted on 10/24/2020 6:58:00 PM PDT by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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