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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These stories remind me of the media cheerleading GI casualties during the Vietnam Nam war.
These are not, to epidemiology “cases”.
I true epidemiology merely testing positive for a virus does not make a case. A case includes symptoms severe enough to need medical intervention.
They are scaring everyone with “cases” even though the fatality danger for 9X.XXXX% of the people % is less than 1%, and kids 0-19 practically need not worry at all, and up to age 30 only a little more, and up to age 50 only a little more than that and if older and with some comorbidity does anyone need to seriously worry.
But meanwhile the media will keep everyone diverted and focused on and fearful about “cases” - mostly asymptomatic, some mild, a few severe and very few fatal.
As always, with the fraudulent reporting, these numbers are meaningless. Whoever posts this crap is a sensationalist looking for attention.
Lol! Why not say a billion new cases?
2019-2020 was an unusually harsh year for flu which started early. Look at the previous 5 years.
We have a nursing home (Sea View) outbreak in my teeny tiny town of Brookings, OR (in unincorporated Harbor, OR). The outbreak is in the memory care unit. Apparently 1 resident has died and they were under hospice care at the time (on the way out anyway). Most don’t have symptoms, I think one was hospitalized. Not sure the breakdown between infected staff and residents. An early article in our local paper appeared to indicate that a positive staff member was from Del Norte County (Crescent City, CA) so that staff member was listed as a case in California. I assume the staff member was the spreader but there seems to be some reason we, the public, can’t know most of the details.
My questions:
Is there some reason the public can’t know the results of the tracing involved in this case?
Shouldn’t staff be tested every day upon entering (and maybe exiting) the facility by law?
I think we should also know where the symptomatic patient is being taken care of. We only have two small hospitals in a 50-mile radius, no hospital in Brookings (largest city in Oregon without its own hospital).
Anyway, excuse my pissiness, but I think the public needs to know a lot more about what “more cases” means and what the tracing as to these “cases” show. Newspapers need to get more facts out to their reading public.
This is the only play the Democrat/Left/Communist Party has left after Biden’s promises to lockdown the country and destroy the oil industry: Trump’s “mishandling” of the Chinese Cootie debacle.
The governor of Ohio tested positive awhile back. They next day he tested negative. Was there a subtraction from the total cases? I doubt it. If his test was faulty, how many others are?
Alabama Department of Health has a statement on their website that numbers for Oct 22 are vastly inflated because they include test results from JUNE THROUGH OCT 18 that were never reported.
The huge increase yesterday is solely because it is delayed results from FOUR AND A HALF MONTHS of testing.
Here is the exact announcement - I would bet this is a nationwide thing.
Important Notice (10/23/20)
The Alabama Department of Public Health processed a backlog of 2565 positive antigen results from a facility in Mobile on October 22. These will be classified as “probable” COVID-19 cases reported on 10/22/20 even though the tests were performed during June through October 18, 2020. All laboratories are required by law to report all results (including positive and negative results) for SARS-CoV-2 to ADPH. Delays in reporting by required reporters is not within control of ADPH. Processing the backlog will not impact the ADPH COVID-19 Risk Indicator Dashboard
The story here is that Americans are self immunizing to the covid virus.
Been hearing that since May. It wasn’t true then and it isn’t true now. R0 for SARS-CoV-2 is 2.5. HIT is 1-1/R0 or 60%. Roughly 12% of the US population has or has had an infection with SARS-CoV-2. We’re 1/5th of the way to the HIT, which is still not exactly the end; more like the beginning of the end.
We’ll get there when a safe and effective vaccine is introduced. EUA should be available for at least one by the end of the month and probably 2 by the end of the year. That will cover front-line healthcare workers, which will have a solid impact on transmission rates.
Well by golly, if they go back to the levels of testing that they were doing in March, April, then these numbers will drop again dramatically- They are doing way more testing than they did back then- A lot of folks likely had coronavirus back then, got over it and were fine, but never got tested-
Oh- and 99.9% of people get over this just fine- overall- but by golly let’s all panic-
Where’s the breakdown of actual factual deaths from the covid?
You are correct. A ‘case’ in medical statistics refers to a morbidity state such as a disease specifically COVID-19.
SARS-COV-2 = Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome- Corona VIRUS - 2.
SARS-COV-2 designates VIRUS.
COVID-19 = Corona Virus Infectious DISEASE.
COVID-19 is the DISEASE.
Persons are ‘TESTED’ for the VIRUS; Persons are ‘DIAGNOSED’ for DISEASE.
Most positive tests are never diagnosed with the disease because most people infected never develop symptoms that indicate disease.
Most ‘incidents’ never become ‘cases’.
The media morons should not be using the term ‘case’ which has meaning in medical statistics and medical science journals.
The appropriate term to use in regards to a positive test is ‘incident’.
For you lawyers out there, an apt analogy is accused vs. convicted.
Yet the fakers and their apparachiks lecture “Listen to the Science!”.
They wouldn’t know Science if it came up to them and spit in their faces.
Russia, Russia, Russia.
Covid, Covid, Covid.
Stop the stupid. You are being played. Cases don’t matter, deaths do; death rate is _low_, low, low.
A bunch of sheep being herded this way, then that. Wake up.
No deaths, or very little comparatively. This is better than a typical flu season and yet the MAKE EVERY EFFORT TO INSTILL FEAR. I cant stand the site of these pukes
Crock of crap. Who cares?
Obama quit testing H1N1 because he said it was useless because it wae a pandemic. 60 million cases of H1N1 total.
We got hand sanitizer as a solution. No lock downs or masks. No jobs lost.
We also know that these tested cells are magnified over 300 times and up to over 400 times to be able to detect them...And the CDC says
anything over 25 times is totally unreliable???
So how many are false positives??? No one knows...
And NPR, of all sources, is reporting the odds of dying IF HOSPITALIZED with COVID has gone down 70%!
“Patients in the study had a 25.6% chance of dying at the start of the pandemic; they now have a 7.6% chance.....
To find out, Horwitz and her colleagues looked at more than 5,000 hospitalizations in the NYU Langone Health system between March and August. They adjusted for factors including age and other diseases, such as diabetes, to rule out the possibility that the numbers had dropped only because younger, healthier people were getting diagnosed. They found that death rates dropped for all groups, even older patients...
Betcha They’re swabbing both nostrils to achieve those numbers
Cut it in half
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