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Current, Deadly U.S. Coronavirus Surge Has Peaked, Researchers Say
NPR ^

Posted on 01/21/2021 2:49:26 PM PST by springwater13

The devastating fall and winter wave of coronavirus infections that is causing so much misery across the U.S. appears to have finally peaked, according to several researchers who are closely tracking the virus.

While another surge remains possible, especially with new, more infectious variants on the horizon, the number of new daily infections in the current wave appears to have hit a high in the past week or two and has been steadily declining in most states since, the researchers say.

"Yes, we have peaked in terms of cases," says Ali Mokdad, who has been tracking the pandemic at the University of Washington's Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. "We are coming down, slowly. This is very good news — very good news."

And while hospitals in some places are still being overwhelmed, the overall number of hospitalized patients also appears to have reached a peak and begun to decline slightly. It's down from a peak of over 132,000 patients on Jan. 6 to 122,700 as of Wednesday.

Declines in daily deaths could soon follow, experts say.

"Based on current trends, the worst appears to be over," says Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. "We are headed to a better place."

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1 posted on 01/21/2021 2:49:26 PM PST by springwater13
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To: springwater13

It’s A Biden Miracle!


2 posted on 01/21/2021 2:50:15 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: springwater13

Well isn’t that surprising?!


3 posted on 01/21/2021 2:50:22 PM PST by Skywise
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To: springwater13

Just in time!


4 posted on 01/21/2021 2:51:12 PM PST by patriot torch (Ashlie Babbitt-say her name)
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To: springwater13

Finally we get a leader that cares!


5 posted on 01/21/2021 2:52:16 PM PST by samadams2000 (Get your houses in order.)
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To: springwater13

🤮


6 posted on 01/21/2021 2:52:23 PM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: springwater13

And there you go. The deadly coronavirus was deep-state code for Trump. He’s gone... err ... it’s gone!


7 posted on 01/21/2021 2:52:39 PM PST by SpaceBar
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To: springwater13

Weird how this happened the day after Biden was sworn in.


8 posted on 01/21/2021 2:53:28 PM PST by linear (The truth brooks no arbiters.)
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To: mewzilla

Somebody better break it to Cuomo.

He’s still all doom, despair, and agony...


9 posted on 01/21/2021 2:53:30 PM PST by mewzilla (Break out the mustard seeds. )
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To: springwater13

It’s a miracle!! When should we nominate Joe for Sainthood?


10 posted on 01/21/2021 2:53:34 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: springwater13
Just have WHO change the requirements of a COVID positive test and boom! fewer cases.
11 posted on 01/21/2021 2:54:31 PM PST by KarlInOhio (The greatest threat to world freedom is the Chinese Communist Party and Joe Biden is their puppet.)
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To: springwater13

Rush today said that Biden totally bungled COVID and HUNDREDS died on his watch today.

It must be a rare case of Rush being wrong!


12 posted on 01/21/2021 2:55:08 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Democracy Dies With Democrats)
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To: springwater13

it is nothing less than a euphemism, and a message,
and a comm: THAT BEIJING BIDEN RUNS USA,INC.


13 posted on 01/21/2021 2:56:44 PM PST by Diogenesis ("when a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced" )
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To: mass55th

“When should we nominate Joe for Sainthood?”

Let’s start small, OK? Let’s nominate him for the Nobel Prize in Medicine.

Sainthood can come in a few weeks.


14 posted on 01/21/2021 2:56:56 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (Democracy Dies With Democrats)
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To: springwater13

Yea, and half of the US population will believe this. It peaked one day after Biden was inaugurated.


15 posted on 01/21/2021 2:56:57 PM PST by caver
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To: SpaceBar

The vast majority of the over 65+ population will be vaccinated within 2 months and almost all nursing home folks (80+) are already vaccinated.

Deaths are going to fall like a rock by April and this whole thing will be over and Biden’s COVID plan will be given miraculous credit when seasonal change and herd immunity will be the cause.

The media is setting up Biden’s hero narrative.....fixing COVID, fixing the economy (trillions of stimulus). We’ll have a sugar high and a few good years and then there will be an epic debt fueled depression unlike anything we’ve seen before in the United States.

Learn the history of Argentina, one of the most prosperous countries in the world in the beginnings of the 20th Century before devaluation after devaluation.


16 posted on 01/21/2021 2:58:25 PM PST by springwater13
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To: springwater13

As the church lady would say, “How conveeeenient!”


17 posted on 01/21/2021 2:59:18 PM PST by Restless
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To: mass55th

Do I smell a nobel prize? Or a conspiracy by the scum of the earth? Both.


18 posted on 01/21/2021 2:59:25 PM PST by joshua c (Jan 20th is Dump Day. Dump them all. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon, cable tv etc)
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To: springwater13
"Devastating"

"causing so much misery"

"another surge remains possible"

"new daily infections"

It is almost like they are pretending they are still at Event 201 pretending that we are in the throws of another pretend Spanish Flu of 1918.

19 posted on 01/21/2021 3:00:10 PM PST by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys )
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To: springwater13

Peaked on January 20th, around Noon EST.


20 posted on 01/21/2021 3:00:10 PM PST by Yo-Yo (is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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