PeterS wrote:
Snip>>>The U.S. set a fresh record for hospitalizations with the c****av***s illness C****-** on Thanksgiving Day, with more than 90,000 Americans in U.S. hospitals, the most since the start of the p******c.
The U.S. counted at least 103,116 new cases on Thursday, according to a New York Times tracker. That’s below recent daily tallies that have come closer to 200,000, but some states did not report their numbers for the holiday, which means the true tally is likely higher.
There are now 90,481 C****-** patients in U.S. hospitals, according to the C***D Tracking Project, breaking the record of 89,959 set a day ago. The U.S. leads the world by cases, at 12.9 million, and fatalities, at 263,462, according to data aggregated by Johns Hopkins University.
Case numbers have been rising across the U.S. in recent weeks, and health-care workers are reported to be exhausted and stressed as hospitals and intensive-care-unit beds fill. The governors of Iowa and North Dakota have reversed their stances on face masks and mandated them in public spaces.
So, according to conservatives, if you have a heart attack because you have C***D it's the heart attack, not C***D that k**ls you. And if you die from C***D pneumonia, pneumonia is the reason you are dead, not C***D? If you have diabetes and die while you have C***D it's diabetes that k**ls you not the C***D.
All along doctors have been saying that C***D is most dangerous to people with underlying conditions. So if you have a weak heart, diabetes, COPD, or any of the thousands of underlying conditions that people have you have to be especially careful because C***D can k**l people with those conditions.
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There is a difference between testing positive for C***d and being infected with it.
Epidemiologists and medical researchers around the world are alarmed at the number of false positives the tests are returning.
The v***l artifacts the PCR test is detecting are unrelated to C***d, such as the flu and even the common cold, artifacts which remain in the human body for a life time.
Compared to the mortality rate of more lethal v***ses such as Ebola which k**ls 9 out 10 people it infects (90%), C****-** is relatively tame. Mortality analysis by Johns Hopkins school of medicine puts the C****-** mortality rate in the US at 2%, or 1 fatality out of 1248 infections.