These growth spikes are related mostly to 4 counties with meat packing plants, four populated counties with national/international airport access, and two counties with state universities.. So, out of 105 counties, ten of them are hotspots.volvolugnut wrote: ↑01 May 2020, 08:22
For your information....(the worst containment)...Kansas (0.158) with 4302 cases....
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If flu deaths were counted like COVID-19 deaths, the worst recent flu
season evidently killed 15,620 Americans
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Faust, a Harvard Medical School instructor and emergency physician at
Brigham & Women's Hospital in Boston, wrote in Scientific American
that he started wondering about the flu-to-COVID comparisons when it
occurred to him that in nearly eight years of hospital work, "I had
almost never seen anyone die of the flu." Neither had any of the
colleagues he called around the country. So he did some research, and
this is what he found:
The 25,000 to 69,000 numbers that Trump cited do not represent counted
flu deaths per year; they are estimates that the CDC produces by
multiplying the number of flu death counts reported by various
coefficients produced through complicated algorithms. These
coefficients are based on assumptions of how many cases,
hospitalizations, and deaths they believe went unreported. In the last
six flu seasons, the CDC's reported number of actual confirmed flu
deaths --- that is, counting flu deaths the way we are currently
counting deaths from the coronavirus --- has ranged from 3,448 to
15,620. [Jeremy Faust, Scientific American]
So in an apples-to-apples comparison, matching the second week of
April's COVID-19 deaths to the worst week of the past seven flu
seasons, "the novel coronavirus killed between 9.5 and 44 times more
people than seasonal flu," Faust writes. Read his entire essay at
Scientific American.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/flu-deaths-w ... 49918.html
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/ob ... o-oranges/
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How high will it go? As Covid-19 death toll in U.S. blows past 60,000,
there are no easy answers
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Gu's model projects that U.S. Covid-19 deaths by early August could be
as low as 88,217 and as high as 293,381, with a most likely toll of
150,760.
https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/30/cor ... -of-death/
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Texas reports most deaths in a day from COVID-19 as Gov. Abbott
prepares to drop stay-home order
Texas reported 50 more COVID-19 deaths on Thursday, the most in any
one day since the state reported its first deaths in mid-March.
The state also reported it had added more than 1,000 new cases of
COVID-19 to its total of 28,000 --- the biggest one-day increase in
infections since April 10.
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Abbott earlier this week said he was reopening businesses because the
state's death rate and hospitalizations have been low.
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/a ... m=referral
Note - Still lots of BS in Texas....
