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The Pennsylvania Department of Health announced that there were 5,676 new cases of coronavirus reported Tuesday. This brings the statewide total to 367,140. There are 10,563 deaths attributed to COVID-19 as of Tuesday, an increase of 180. Currently, 4,744 patients are hospitalized with the disease, 113 more since the last report. Most of the patients hospitalized are ages 65 or older, and most of the deaths have occurred in patients within the same demographic. The trend in the 14-day moving average of number of hospitalized patients per day has increased by nearly 3,200 since the end of September. The number...

Experts found that tens of thousands of people in nursing homes "have died from neglect and sorrow related to the pandemic," according to an eye-opening report from the Associated Press. The report stated that there have been more than 97,000 residents of U.S. nursing homes who have died during the coronavirus pandemic. A nursing home expert analyzed 15,000 U.S. long-term care facilities and estimates that for every two coronavirus victims in nursing homes, there is a person who died prematurely of other causes. The report stated that the "excess deaths" in nursing homes could total over 40,000 since March. "Interviews...

Instead, a new investigation showed that by mid-August the death rate in those hospitalized with coronavirus-related illness had dropped from 27 percentage points to about 3 percentage points. Led by researchers at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, the study showed that a younger, healthier group of people were getting infected and were arriving at the hospital with less-severe symptoms than those infected in the spring. However, the researchers’ analysis showed that these factors accounted for only part of the improvement in survival. The rest, they suspect, resulted from health care providers’ growing experience with the coronavirus. For example, physicians learned...

The "overwhelming" emotional toll of the coronavirus left an Illinois doctor in tears as she announced the latest number of deaths in the state more than seven months into the pandemic. "These are people who started with us in 2020 and won't be with us at the Thanksgiving table," Illinois Department of Public Health Director Dr. Ngozi Ezike said before turning her back to wipe away tears during a daily press briefing with Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Friday.

Overview 1) Antibody studies ⇓ 2) Immunological studies ⇓ 3) Median age of death ⇓ 4) Hospitalizations ⇓ 5) Nursing homes ⇓ 6) Overall mortality ⇓ 7) Development ⇓ IFR: Infection fatality rate1) Antibody seroprevalence studies (⇓) The covid-19 infection fatality rate (IFR) depends on demographics (age and risk structure), public policies (e.g. protection of nursing homes), and medical treatment quality.Covid-19 IFRs are strongly age-dependent, with a steep increase above the age of 70. The median age of covid-related deaths in most Western countries is 80 to 86 years (see section 3 below). In most Western countries, about half of...

A nationally representative survey conducted by Axios/Ipsos in late July 2020 found that 37% of adults think the real number of C-19 fatalities in the U.S. is lower than reported, while 31% think the true death toll is greater than reported. The facts show that neither side has an airtight case, but the evidence is more consistent with the theory that less people have died from C-19 than the official figures indicate. Nevertheless, the extent of the possible overcount is unknown, and even if it were as high as 50,000, it would not make a marked difference in key measures...

The Daily Beast is being criticized over a misleading report about the deaths that have occurred among educators amid the reopening of schools during the coronavirus outbreak. Fourth Watch media analyst Steve Krakauer highlighted an article published last week that read the "heartbreaking" headline, "At Least 4 Teachers Have Died of COVID-19 Since Start of School Year." "At least four teachers have died of coronavirus-related causes since the beginning of the school year—an ominous sign of what’s to come as students return to classrooms across the country," the report grimly began before citing the deaths of teachers from Pennsylvania, Mississippi,...

And why are 8,034 malignant neoplasm deaths included on the coronavirus list? Why are 6,159 Alzheimer deaths included on the coronavirus death list? The CDC doesn’t say. But Americans are supposed to listen to the CDC as they claim masks are saving lives and children are in danger at school when they have a greater chance of drowning than dying from coronavirus. When will this corrupt organization be audited? When will they be held to account for their destruction and lies? What they are getting away with is fraud. And they list it in their weekly results.

Over the Labor Day weekend the lowest number of deaths were recorded from the China coronavirus (COVID-19) since the 4th of July. The Worldometer website recorded only 286 deaths yesterday due to COVID-19. This is the lowest number recorded since the 4th of July weekend. On July 5th there were 268 deaths recorded and on the 4th of July there were 270 deaths recorded. On June 21 there were 271 deaths recorded and before that the lowest number of deaths recorded was in March 2020. It is clear that COVID-19 is fizzling across America and the world.Based on prior...

Bruce Williamson Jr., the lead singer of the Temptations, has died from the coronavirus. He was 49. The soul singer died Sunday night at his home in Las Vegas, TMZ reported. Williamson, who was not an original member, joined the Temptations in 2006 and sang with the group until 2015.

A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report is being twisted by conspiracy theorists to imply the COVID-19 death toll is not as serious as it sounds, health experts say. In response, Dr. Anthony Fauci and other medical authorities say unequivocally that at least 180,000 Americans have died because of this virus. And if anything, the figure is likely an undercount, say health experts. "Let there not be any confusion," Fauci said after President Donald Trump retweeted an article that inaccurately suggested the real number of COVID-19 deaths is 9,000. "It's not 9,000 deaths from COVID-19. It's 180,000-plus deaths," Fauci...

figure> CDC/Screenshot Over the last two days, there has been quite an uproar over the CDC’s statement that only 6% of COVID-19 deaths were as a result of the virus alone. The following statement on the agency’s website caused confusion and debate: Table 3 shows the types of health conditions and contributing causes mentioned in conjunction with deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death. The number of deaths with...

White House coronavirus advisor Dr. Anthony Fauci debunked online theories promoted by President Donald Trump that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has changed its guidance for tallying coronavirus deaths, showing a fraction of total Covid-19 fatalities. On Sunday, Twitter removed a post retweeted by Trump that claimed the CDC had “quietly” updated its guidance to indicate only 6% of the country’s coronavirus death toll — roughly 9,000 deaths — was actually caused by the virus, according to a CNN report. The tweet said the remaining 94% had “other serious illnesses.” Fauci told the ABC program “Good Morning America”...

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The number of people in the US killed by the coronavirus surpassed 150,000 on Wednesday, according to new data. Americans account for nearly a quarter of the more-than 660,000 people killed by the virus worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University. Brazil has the second-highest number of coronavirus deaths — around 88,500 — followed by the United Kingdom, which has almost 46,000 fatalities. The US nationwide death toll is more than three times the number of Americans killed in World War I.

The FDA denied August 10 the urgent request for emergency approval for COVID-19 outpatient preventive and early treatment use of hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) filed July 1 by Dr. John McKinnon’s team at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, supported by Dr. Peter McCullough's cardiology team at Baylor Heart and Vascular Institute in Dallas. Elizabeth Lee Vliet, M.D. is a preventive and climacteric medicine specialist with medical practices in Tucson, Ariz. and Dallas, Texas. | (Photo: Angel Pictures & Publicity)Approximately 48,000 more Americans have died during the FDA's 48-day delay since this Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) was requested on July 1. Dr. McKinnon's...

The Justice Department is seeking data about “orders which may have resulted in the deaths of thousands of elderly nursing home residents,” sending letters Wednesday to the governors of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan. Officials say Wednesday that the Justice Department’s civil rights division is evaluating whether to initiate investigations under a federal law that protects the rights of people in state-run nursing homes and other facilities. Prosecutors are trying to determine whether state orders requiring admission of COVID-19 patients to nursing homes could have led to deaths. Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband says the federal government must...

Today the Justice Department requested COVID-19 data from the governors of states that issued orders which may have resulted in the deaths of thousands of elderly nursing home residents. New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan required nursing homes to admit COVID-19 patients to their vulnerable populations, often without adequate testing. For example, on March 25, 2020, New York ordered: “No resident shall be denied re-admission or admission to [a nursing home] solely based on a confirmed or suspected diagnosis of COVID-19. [Nursing homes] are prohibited from requiring a hospitalized resident who is determined medically stable to be tested for...

Uganda, a country in east-central Africa, has a 2018 population of 42.729 million, which is 13% of the United States’ population of 328.239 million in 2019. And yet Uganda has 1,603 COVID-19 cases and just 15 deaths (h/t Rush Limbaugh), wherease the U.S. has 5,656,744 COVID-19 cases and 175,105 deaths. That means: Uganda’s number of COVID-19 cases is only 0.028% of the number of U.S. COVID-19 cases; and Uganda’s number of COVID-19 deaths is only 0.008% of the number of U.S. COVID-19 deaths. How can that be, when Uganda is one of the poorest countries in the world, with a...

The United States surpassed 170,000 coronavirus deaths on Sunday, according to a Reuters tally. Deaths rose by 483 on Sunday, with Florida, Texas and Louisiana, leading the rise in fatalities, the tally found. The United States has at least 5.4 million confirmed cases in total of the novel coronavirus, the highest in the world and likely an undercount as the country still has not ramped up testing to the recommended levels. Cases are falling in most states except for Hawaii, South Dakota and Illinois. Public health officials and authorities are concerned about a possible fall resurgence in cases amid the...