Posted on 08/07/2021 6:54:14 PM PDT by entropy12
The COVID-19 outbreak in the United States crossed 100,000 new confirmed daily infections Saturday, a milestone last exceeded during the winter surge and driven by the highly transmissible delta variant and low vaccination rates in the South.
It took the U.S. about nine months to cross 100,000 average daily cases in November before peaking at about 250,000 in early January. Cases bottomed out in June, averaging about 11,000 per day, but six weeks later the number is 107,143.
Hospitalizations and deaths are also increasing, though all are still below peaks seen early this year before vaccines became widely available. More than 44,000 Americans are currently hospitalized with COVID-19, according to the CDC, up 30% in a week and nearly four times the number in June. More than 120,000 were hospitalized in January.
The seven-day average for deaths rose from about 270 deaths per day two weeks ago to nearly 500 a day as of Friday, according to Johns Hopkins University.
The situation is particularly dire in the South, which has some of the lowest vaccination rates in the U.S. and has seen smaller hospitals overrun with patients.
In the Southeast, the number of hospitalized COVID-19 patients jumped 50% to a daily average of 17,600 over the last week from 11,600 the previous week, the CDC says. Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Kentucky represent 41% of the nation’s new hospitalizations, the CDC says, twice their overall share of the population.
Alabama and Mississippi have the lowest vaccination rates in the country: less than 35% of residents are fully inoculated, according to the Mayo Clinic. Georgia, Tennessee and the Carolinas are all in the lowest 15 states.
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It’s driven by hot weather in the south. Just like last year. Not vaccination rates. Half the people I know who had it recently are vacinated.
They should just cut out the daily drip on these stories and go for max propaganda and say there are billions of new cases.
Thanks for nothing, Joe Biden!
Remember the good ole days when folks could discuss real news?
Today it is either “black lives are in danger” or trumped up flu cases.
So freaking ridiculous.
Fauci said we are scheduled for 200k per day soon, but he didn’t exactly say when.
just make sure no rogue doctor gives them HCQ or Ivermectin
I heard one doctor make the point that forced vaccinations forced covid to rapidly transmute in order to survive. That’s why there are so many variants in such a short period.
Superspreaders coming across our southern border and being dispersed all over the US. Easy enough to make the correlation.
Don’t know if it is a deliberate policy, or simple ignorance combined with a truculent attitude, but masks and vaccinations won’t make much difference now.
When you are going through hell, don’t stop, just keep going.
Give them time.
Of the 44,000 that are hospitalized how many are being treated with any of the “alternative” treatments?
Like the ones they used in India that pretty much crushed the curve there.
Like the one used by a woman, whose family had to sue the hospital to use, who was in a coma and then left the hospital a few days later.
The super-spreaders walking across the southern border remain mostly in southern states. This might be intentional purpose of the current administration.
Choose your doctor with care!
I don’t know about “forced” vaccinations, but shoddy, leaky vaccination introduced during the seasonal spread of the virus is undoubtedly exerting a pressure on it without eradicating it.
Of course, the people that gave us the virus, gave us the vaccine, as well, so their motives might be something less than forthright.
I really hope you did not mean to say that covid vaccinations are mandated by law. Private business is another matter, after all it is a private business, and should be allowed to make their own decisions. Capitalism is self correcting. Bad decisions will make you go out of business.
Don’t shoot the news reporter!
But the important data not publicized is that they are being cured. The CDC data: All Deaths involving Covid for the year -
Jan 104,946
Feb 47,573
Mar 22,758
Apr 18,422
May 14,523
Jun 7584
Jul 6571
Duh??? That’s where the southern border is? That’s where Joe is injecting COVID into the US? Are they really surprised by this?
Peddling fear porn with qualifications?
C’mon, man. /s
In a previous comment on a similar thread this past week (re the fear porn headlines), I gave my observations on the testing lines at a local hospital.
Well, the very next day following Zero’s faux announcement of ‘scaling back’ his invitation-only bash at his hypocritical waterfront mansion, the line went from 0-2 cars to over 20 and the hospital had to redeploy a security officer to direct traffic for the testing line extending through the parking lot and across the street. That line persisted into the next day and I fully expect it to be there on Monday.
Positive PCR tests mean NOTHING. And I guarandamntee that there’s no way that they shipped millions of the new tests by now.
And by the way: They’re falsely reporting a 93% ICU occupancy rate locally (I know the truth), but no one has the cajones to challenge the status quo. I can’t help but wonder what else qualifies as LIES in media headlines this weekend...
Oh, in that case...private businesses should also ask all employees to disclose their AIDS and other STD status, if they’re going to require these horrid shots.
Wear the care, on their sleeve, and passports!!
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