Covid-19 hospitalization rates are dropping. That’s terrible news [consider the source and date]

Special to The Washington Post ^ | December 7, 2020 | Ashish Jha

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What’s their explanation for the declining death rate? More people refusing to die as commanded?

[PAR35]

Did you see the story out of England about the woman that got arrested? She went into a “packed” hospital and filmed scenes of the empty hallways and rooms.

[PAR35]

What’s their explanation for the declining death rate?

That's a temporary situation that can easily be fixed when Biden Kamala takes power.

[M-cubed]

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[daniel1212]

The entire article needs to be read. The author is NOT a skeptic about the seriousness of SARS-CoV-2 infection and COVID-19. He is claiming that declining hospitalization is due to hospitals inappropriately turning away sick patients who subsequently are at greater risk.

I understood that, but understand my logic that if this was the case then hospitalization counts would not end up rising (in correspondence to cases)? The writer states, "Nov. 1, the Covid Tracking Project’s seven-day average showed about 80,000 new cases – which we would predict should lead to about 2,800 new hospitalizations a week later, by Nov. 8. Instead, there were 2,600, a little fewer than expected." Therefore if a substantial rise in cases does not result in substantial rise in a hospitalization counts before the hospitals cannot take more, then we should not see reports such as these: "Since the Thanksgiving holiday, California has faced a surge of Covid-19 infections unparalleled across the United States, leading to continued daily record highs in hospitalizations and deaths." (https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/18/us/california-covid-surge-alarming-rise/index.html) .

[daniel1212]

Article written by Ashish Jha. Why are so many foreigners writing our news stories? When I see a name like Ashish Jha I immediately suspect an agenda.

Thus is likely due to wanting to be politically correct rather than merit, although immigrants usually do work harder than the natives.

[daniel1212]

What’s their explanation for the declining death rate? More people refusing to die as commanded?

You mean a California Coronavirus Death Rate high of 4.16% on May 2nd to 1.13% on Jan. 1? "California Coronavirus Death Rate is at 1.13%, compared to 1.13% yesterday. This is lower than the long term average of 2.35%."?

That must be blamed on the President and his admin for doing nothing except (from World Meters),

• On January 31, HHS declared Coronavirus a Public Health Emergency in the US
  As of Jan. 31, the Wuhan coronavirus is officially a public health emergency in the United States, Alex Azar, secretary of the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced at a White House press briefing.
• On Jan. 31, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued a federal quarantine for 14 days affecting the 195 American evacuees from Wuhan, China. Starting Sunday, Feb. 2, U.S. citizens, permanent residents and immediate family who have visited China's Hubei province will undergo a mandatory 14 days quarantine and, if they have visited other parts of China, they would be screened at airports and asked to self-quarantine for 14 days. The last time the CDC had issued a quarantine was over 50 years ago in the 1960s, for smallpox.
• President Donald Trump signed an order on Jan. 31 for the U.S. to deny entry to foreign nationals who traveled to China within the preceding two weeks, aside from the immediate family of U.S. citizens.

avel Alert: Do Not Travel to China

• The U.S. State Department on January 30 issued a Level 4: Do Not Travel to China Alert ^[4] (the highest level of alert).
• Previously, on January 29, the advisory was set at a lower "Level 3: Reconsider Travel" advising not to travel to Hubei Province: (Level 4) and reconsider travel to the remainder of China (Level 3).
• The CDC on Jan. 28 issued a Level 3 Warning, recommending that travelers avoid all nonessential travel to China ^[5].
  

Screening incoming passengers at 20 airports in the U.S.

On January 17, the CDC announced that 3 airports in the United States would begin screening incoming passengers from China: SFO, JFK, and LAX ^[6] Other 2 airports were added subsequently, and on January 28, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that 15 additional U.S. airports (bringing the total to 20) would begin screening incoming travelers from China.

More: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/president-trumps-historic-coronavirus-response/

But then you do have what the President often erroneously said in downplaying it: https://doggett.house.gov/media-center/blog-posts/timeline-trump-s-coronavirus-responses

[stylin19a]

How about it...just whacky...

[SoCal Pubbie]

Is not also possible that more healthy individuals who were not among the more at-risk demographic to get infected early are now coming down with more mild cases? Or that the virus has mutated into a less dangerous strain?

Aren’t there lots of ways to interpret data?

[daniel1212]

Sounds like my tomato plant blight last summer.