Some Covid-19 thoughts
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Stupid people don't know they're stupid, and they certainly don't realize how obvious it is to others. 
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University of Notre Dame reports 44 cases after 1 week of classes. All students were tested negative before being allowed on campus.
https://here.nd.edu/our-approach/dashboard/
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Quote:COVID's true toll in Texas is almost two times higher than reported, data shows
Originally posted by 1KIKI:
I keep waiting for some thoughts - like the title says are supposed to be in here.
www.houstonchronicle.com/news/investigations/article/covid-death-toll-
houston-tx-texas-higher-data-15478269.php
Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in Texas, the state’s death toll from all causes has soared by thousands above historical averages — a sobering spike that experts say reveals the true toll of the disease.
Between the beginning of the local pandemic and the end of July, 95,000 deaths were reported in Texas, according to U.S. Centers for Disease Control data. Based on historical mortality records and predictive modeling, government epidemiologists would have expected to see about 82,500 deaths during that time.
The CDC attributed more than 7,100 deaths to COVID-19, but that leaves roughly 5,500 more than expected and with no identified tie to the pandemic. The CDC’s chief of mortality, Dr. Bob Anderson, said these “excess deaths” are likely from a range of pandemic-related problems, including misclassifications because doctors did not initially understand the many ways that COVID-19 affects the circulatory system and results in a stroke or a heart attack.
“It can cause all sorts of havoc in the body,” he said.
The CDC data offers an opaque but important estimate of how deadly the virus has been in Texas, which suffered from testing shortages for weeks as COVID-19 case counts climbed.
“It has shocked me to see people think that there’s overcounts of the COVID deaths, because I can’t even imagine that that’d be the case,” said Mark Hayward, a professor at the University of Texas who studies mortality trends. “The undercount is so dramatic.”
And there is a clear racial disparity in the undercounts. Between March and the end of July, Texas recorded more than 21,000 deaths of Latinos — more than 5,000 higher than epidemiologists predicted. Of those, about 2,100 were attributed to COVID-19. That leaves more than 3,000 deaths in excess of the expected number, many of them in border counties that lack resources for testing.
In Starr County, Chuy Alvarez said he and his fellow justices of the peace — who are charged with investigating potential COVID-19 deaths — do not test bodies because of cost issues. The Rio Grande Valley county has yet to record a single at-home coronavirus fatality, he said, though its confirmed virus deaths of 8.8 per 10,000 residents is more than 2.5 times higher than Harris County’s, according to state health department figures.
Scientific modeling can usually predict, with a high degree of certainty, the number of deaths to expect in a geographic area for natural causes such as the flu, pneumonia, heart disease and cancer by using decades of death certificate data. What Texas has experienced since this spring, experts say, is a wave of excess deaths with no modern parallel that confirmed COVID-19 fatalities only partially explain.
Texas’ decentralized death certification system, in which only a handful of the state’s 254 counties have medical examiners, shifts some of the burden to determine cause of death to justices of the peace.
These elected officials, who often are not medical professionals and whose typical duties are dominated by dockets of traffic tickets, may lack the resources and expertise to track what can be a mysterious killer, Hayward said.
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Deaths___172,146___+720
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Quote:
Originally posted by THG:
Deaths___172,146___+720
7,708 deaths in the US per day.
August 17th = Day 230
7,708 x 230 = 1,772,840 deaths in 2020.
A few years from now we'll be able to look back and see a great majority of those deaths your talking about fall into the normal amount of US deaths.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:But, just because it's highly contagious and kills in weeks instead of years, we should make an extra special point of ignoring it, unlike say ... the way we've focused on cancer, or heart disease.
COVID-19 to make Top 10 leading causes of death in US, data experts say
“We know that based on the # of COVID-19 deaths so far in 2020, it will end up as a Top 10 leading cause of death but won’t know exactly how high it will rank until next year,” CDC data experts told CNN via e-mail. https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/23/health/covid-rank-leading-cause-of-deat
h-us-bn/index.html
https://nypost.com/2020/07/24/covid-19-to-make-top-10-leading-causes-o
f-death-in-us-data-experts-say/
I apologize to everyone for starting a thread to keep up with facts about SARS-COV-2, and driving JACK over the edge with too much reality.
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Easy to make the top 10 when we've just made a big ole' bucket for it that we throw every non-related type of death into.
Whatever.
We'll see in a few years when the death toll was only slightly elevated from what would be expected as a normal raise for the higher population year over year.
Just like everything else, I'm a patient man.
The problem here is no matter what issue we're talking about I'm conversing with a bunch of 3 year olds who only focus on today and are completely incapable of looking at all into the future.
Or to put it another way, I'm trying to play Chess with shitty Checkers players.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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But, just because COVID-19's highly contagious and kills in weeks instead of years, we should make an extra special point of ignoring it, unlike say ... the way we've focused on cancer, or heart disease.
I apologize to everyone for starting a thread to keep up with facts about SARS-COV-2, and driving JACK over the edge with too much reality.
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'It's Going to Take Everyone': Demonstrations Planned Nationwide to 'Save the Post Office From Trump'
"We have a narrow window to stop a wannabe dictator from sabotaging our elections."
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2020/08/17/its-going-take-everyone-d
emonstrations-planned-nationwide-save-post-office-trump
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