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Covid: Thanksgiving the cause of a spike in US infections?
BBC News ^ | December 22, 2020 | By Jake Horton

Posted on 12/22/2020 3:03:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Concerns that family reunions over Christmas could spread coronavirus have led to much tighter restrictions in many parts of the UK.

Some have pointed to the US, claiming that family gatherings at Thanksgiving - at the end of November - led to an increase in cases.

So, what - if any - evidence is there for this?

What you can see from the graph is that because of reporting delays around the holiday period, there was a flattening of the curve followed by a catch-up period. But overall, cases rose by about 20% in the two weeks following Thanksgiving - about the same increase as over the two weeks prior to 26 November.

So the overall rate of growth of infections across the US has remained about the same as it was in the weeks before the holiday.


(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; covid; thanksgiving; virus

1 posted on 12/22/2020 3:03:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just look at what they were able to accomplish with a pandemic, they were able to ruin traditional American holidays like thanks giving and Christmas, holidays of hope and renewal, the economy, small businesses, everyday life in America, your ability to earn a living, your self respect and dignity, your free speech and your ability to elect people who will represent you. China, the rats and the rhino GOP rats are responsible


2 posted on 12/22/2020 3:10:32 AM PST by ronnie raygun ( Massive mistakes are made by arrogant fools; massive evils are committed by evil people.")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I think it was the street celebrations for biden


3 posted on 12/22/2020 3:10:45 AM PST by daku
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/illinois-top-doc-says-we-did-not-see-the-significant-surge-after-thanksgiving/2398518/


4 posted on 12/22/2020 3:12:11 AM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: ronnie raygun
China, the rats and the RINO GOP rats are responsible

Don't forget Fauci.

5 posted on 12/22/2020 3:12:23 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Yehovah saved more animals than people on the ark...siameserescue.org)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

And we are going to ignore the sobees for Christmas too. There was no reason to panic over Thanksgiving.

Hector, lecture and moan all you want, more and more people are simply done with this.


6 posted on 12/22/2020 3:17:11 AM PST by Adder ("Can you be more stupid?" is a question, not a challenge.)
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To: All

Not if you’re in Wuhan. They’re doing just fine.


7 posted on 12/22/2020 3:25:59 AM PST by ssfromla
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To: who knows what evil?

The sad part is the RINOS aren’t even aware what they are doing to this country. When they wake up, it will be to late. God Bless America!


8 posted on 12/22/2020 3:28:08 AM PST by LoveMyFreedom (That i would not doubt)
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To: daku

I think it was all the dead people voting for Biden that spread the virus.


9 posted on 12/22/2020 3:36:02 AM PST by enumerated
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To: Adder

Hear hear, in CA I had a great 22 person thankgiving and expect to have a great 27 person Christmas dinner. We do not have to obey these creeps. The lockdowns and mask orders will not end until we realize this en masse.


10 posted on 12/22/2020 3:36:21 AM PST by HerrBlucher (On we sweep with threshing oar our only goal is another 4)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

yeah, it was Thanksgiving....not the open weed shops or the open unregulated indian casinos...not the howood crowd enjoying eating together because you know, their so important...


11 posted on 12/22/2020 3:49:55 AM PST by cherry (TRUMP WON!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Here is another graph, except this has DECADES of data. As I wrote elsewhere, lest anyone think otherwise, we are seeing a SEASONAL RISE in cases and fatalities, and not a "surge.

The majority of deaths in most countries can be attributed to causes that feature a distinct seasonal pattern. The figure depicts the relative monthly frequencies of nine selected causes of death in the United States for women and men combined for the years 1959–2014. The reported number of counts in parentheses in the title of each panel is the actual number of deaths.

Viruses gonna virus. Even non-viruses gonna non-virus.

The only thing that will cause an abatement is the vernal equinox, not a deepened loss of liberty.


12 posted on 12/22/2020 4:07:50 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: LoveMyFreedom

“The sad part is the RINOS aren’t even aware what they are doing to this country. When they wake up, it will be to late. God Bless America!”

You are right. I think it might be already to late. Jan 6th will determine if I every vote again Republican again.


13 posted on 12/22/2020 4:40:39 AM PST by DEPcom (The Republic is in great danger.)
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To: daku

Bingo.


14 posted on 12/22/2020 5:01:25 AM PST by sauropod (Cui bono? I will not comply.)
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To: HerrBlucher

You’re on point they will never let go of this. We have to end this ourselves.


15 posted on 12/22/2020 5:10:31 AM PST by Bulwyf
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To: ssfromla

Are they?

We really don’t know, but...

If the CCP is to be believed, almost all cases of COVID came to an end in late May. China “only” had 83K dead from COVID then, and now it at 86K dead.

Meanwhile, the USA—which had no cases when this disease first appeared, has had 330K dead as of today.

Decisions, decisions...

You know what? I’m going to have to just straight up say The Communist Party of China is lying... At an EPIC scale.

But not a single Western news source or big tech social media site is flagging this as misinformation.


16 posted on 12/22/2020 5:56:29 AM PST by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: DoodleBob

GREAT data—thanks!


17 posted on 12/22/2020 5:59:37 AM PST by Alas Babylon! ("You, the American people, are my only special interest." --President Donald J. Trump)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I our area we peaked about Thanksgiving. we were warned of a post thanksgiving surge, instead hospitalizations have dropped dramatically proving once again masks and lockdowns have no effect on the spread of this virus.


18 posted on 12/22/2020 6:03:11 AM PST by Mom MD
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
First, “cases” is not indicative of disease, because they are counting all positives on over-sensitive PCR tests. MU Health Care Systems was reported yesterday as saying hospitalizations have remained steady for some time, with virus replication rate measuring “one.” That is, for each recovered patient, one new patient. Deaths, in Missouri have plummeted to a weekly average of 8. See the graphs at Mo Dept of Health website:
https://showmestrong.mo.gov/data/statewide-public-health/?fbclid=IwAR1so2Ukks56S7Hw37L1HhjFc0NRTIpmlSy_hyp94G-o5VQbujwpjy189IE
19 posted on 12/22/2020 6:51:15 AM PST by Missouri gal
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