Blade_Runner wrote:
Around 1.7% of C***d cases reported were children, at last count 5 died due to the v***s complicating preexisting health problems.
CDC: After 10-Week Decline In C****-** Deaths, It May Soon No Longer Be An Epidemic
July 6, 2020 By Allison Schuster
The United States now has so few deaths due to C****-** that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported Friday it is approaching the threshold for dipping below the level of an epidemic.
The CDC defines an epidemic as an outbreak from which the number of deaths per week exceeds a given percentage of total deaths within the nation. The number of deaths from C****-** has steadily declined since hitting its peak in early May after it began spiking in the second week in March.
That threshold death rate for C****-** and other diseases such as influenza and pneumonia fluctuates, ranging typically from 5 to 7 percent at the height of flu season. The CDC said the W***n flu death rate had, during the last week in June, become equal to the epidemic threshold of 5.9 percent, reaching its lowest point since the end of last year.
The agency warned this is likely to change as more death certificates from recent weeks are processed, but it could mean hopeful news for the upcoming weeks. The total number of deaths due to C****-** has been declining for 10 straight weeks, concluding with week 26 that ended June 27. This suggests the United States could be on the verge of not being considered in an epidemic.
“Based on death certificate data, the percentage of deaths attributed to pneumonia, influenza or C****-** (PIC) decreased from 9.0% during week 25 to 5.9% during week 26, representing the tenth week of a declining percentage of deaths due to PIC,” according to the CDC’s website.
Fear over an impending second wave of cases and subsequent deaths due to C****-** has generated caution in reopening businesses. In the parts of the country that have reopened, however, death rates haven’t widely spiked.
Despite the United States reaching its highest single-day surge of new C****-** cases in recent weeks, the death rate continues to remain stagnant, relatively unaffected by the increase in diagnoses. Cases have increased for week 26 in most regions nationally, but still remain lower than peaks in March and April.
While policymakers toy with the idea of a second shutdown, the CDC is reporting a lower death rate even while C****-** cases are recently on the rise.
Around 1.7% of C***d cases reported were children,... (
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Good facts Blade. I keep reading that we are having a resurgence of "cases of C***d". Well, most of that is because we are testing more people then before. What is the ratio of positive cases compared to tests taken is the only valuable number in that category of positive cases. Obviously the death rate is the absolute most important number and as you pointed out, going down overall or flat lining. The problem is declining but if that happens the politicians loose their power over the people, and the opportunity to blame it all on Trump. They need this for 95 more days. So we can count on Blue state Governors and Mayors to delay reopening as long as possible. They don't give a damn about lives, only their power.
Cheers.