Posted on 11/10/2020 9:40:09 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
NEW YORK (AP) — The latest surge in U.S. coronavirus cases appears to be much larger than the two previous ones, and it is all but certain to get worse — a lot worse. But experts say there are also reasons to think the nation is better able to deal with the virus this time.
“We’re definitely in a better place” when it comes to improved medical tools and knowledge, said William Hanage, a Harvard University infectious-disease researcher.
To be sure, the alarming wave of cases across the U.S. looks bigger and is more widespread than the surges that happened in the spring, mainly in the Northeast, and then in the summer, primarily in the Sun Belt.
Newly confirmed infections in the U.S. are running at all-time highs of well over 100,000 per day, pushing the running total this week to more than 10 million. Deaths — a lagging indicator, since it takes time for people to get sick and die — are climbing again, reaching an average of more than 930 a day.
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I have no idea what to think about this anymore
I do. We shouldn’t have done anything we don’t do for Flu.
“May”?!?!?!
They seriously ought to be.
The pandemic was supposed to end on November 4 but those damn lawsuits keep getting in the way!
hospitals have countless cases of elderly and demented people that the families don’t want or can’t take care of and nursing homes and assisted living refuse to take them in....we have people there for several months, taking up valuable hospital resources...families leave them there...
100,000 cases a day... in thirty days, 3 million... in three months, 100 million cases and herd immunity. no need for a vaccine.
“...I have no idea what to think about this anymore.”
A strategy that has proved over 99% successful is to take what ever the lamestream media barfs out, invert it, and act accordingly.
It’s “What, me worry?” over at the AP now I see.
The reason why nursing homes do not want them is in order to qualify for a nursing home bed, a patient must be sick enough to qualify for inpatient status in a hospital for three days. All done under Obamacare.A sneaky way to reduce funding to Medicare, yet the elderly still vote Democrat and have no idea what Medicare for All will do to them.
that rule has been waived for covid
Even if you come in for an ankle fracture or a pubic fracture? Or just only for covid patients?
That’s not how epidemics spread. If it were, we’d have hit 200 million+ cases back in May.
Also ignores the deaths that come with it. We don’t want to see an additional ~600,000+ deaths. So we should absolutely continue working on getting a safe and effective vaccine deployed.
is it more complicated than cases going up, and deaths staying low... comparatively...?
for everyone. It’s better for the ankle fracture patients to get them out of the hospital than keep them iin to get exposed to covid
10 million cases with 250,000 deaths... 2.5% death rate... even less with the non systematic people not getting tested... or dying...
seems to be a nasty flu, bro.
Flu has a CFR of 0.1%, not 2.5%.
And to your other question: yes, it is more complicated than cases going up and deaths staying low, because deaths don’t stay low. There’s a lag between new cases and new deaths because it takes (on average) around 14 days for someone to die after diagnosis. So if your cases start going up on November 1st, you won’t see the deaths numbers move much at all until November 15th or so. Look at the cases and deaths in the UK, Spain, Belgium, and Italy right now. Their cases are vastly exceeding what they saw in the first wave and their deaths are approaching what they saw then.
Switzerland is already seeing more deaths in wave 2 than they saw at any point in wave 1.
You don’t want to wait for herd immunity. A vaccine is necessary. That’s why President Trump spent months and billions of taxpayer dollars pushing that process along: he understood what he was dealing with.
Thats good. I am retired from UR for a couple of years now. The most useless nursing job ever, a symptom of the overwhelming admin layers in hospitals. But I just could not be a bedside nurse anymore.
Oh, you’re talking about CoVID-19.
I thought you were talking about the malware in the Dominion Voting machines that’s creating havoc with our elections.
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