“Over the past 24 hours, the U.S. reported 14,024 new cases of coronavirus and 265 new deaths, raising the total to 68,347 cases and 1,037 dead”
Also saw that, reported via Fox website
The acceleration of infections and new deaths are continuing to increase in the U.S.
Regarding confirmed cases we are just behind Italy for third place. We should rise to the most infected country in the world in about a week.
Most tested, yes. Most infected? That depends on whether Chicom numbers can be trusted. (Hint: they cannot).
With 500,000 tested we have 68,347 positive cases....it denotes a negative for covid rate of about 87 percent of all tests done. 13 percent are positive and 15 percent of those(the number seems to be consistent everywhere) will need hospitalization. We could do a rough extrapolation that as of about 7 days ago(given an average turn around time of 2-4 days for the tests) 287,100,000 persons, tested and untested, had not contracted the disease across the entire nation.
42,900,000 some of whom will be tested and most of who will never be tested, could be presumed to be positive as of 7 days ago. Some will be silent spreaders, having no symptoms at all until the body rids itself of the virus. Some will have mild symptoms or symptoms that will be the worst long hanging flu of their life but they get over it without hospitalization. 15 percent will get very sick, so they say, but that comes out to 6, 435,000 people. We could not handle that many people crashing the system all at once.
Yet perhaps our mitigation strategies are working...? We have our hotspots and more people are showing up sicker but we should have been seeing many more thousands by now, instead of the spurts and sputters.. Now maybe we still will over the next two weeks...Yes, Perhaps we have flattened the curve....? I have questions. Have we destroyed ourselves?
Some of the previously mentioned 287 million may yet contract the disease and get tested, others of the 42 million will get better on their own and never get tested and we will never know if they had it or not.
This nation will need to learn how to get on even with ongoing disease for after this one, there will be other covids. Staggered closures vs complete shutdowns may have to be explored. Economies can not be suffocated like this and survive to provide jobs and opportunity when pestilence subsides; chaos and civil war, famine and even wider spread death may result.
Piggish personal behaviors and casual sexual excess amongst the population will have to be forced curbed if necessary, if not for morality’s sake, but for the health and welfare of the general population. We may have become more like Singapore than we would have liked, but I’d rather that than the North Korea that the Democrats would prefer.
Can we believe the numbers, now? Will we see the absolute swamping of our health systems? Even in our Hotspots, thus far they seem to have managed the numbers. They say we are week behind Italy yet even being a week behind Italy we aren’t showing the numbers or even have videos of piles of bodies and videos of multiple kids and adults gasping desperately. Yes we know many in the US have gone to the Er’s very sick and some are dying quickly.... still, something seems amiss....