Wednesday, February 16, 2022

Daily U.S. Covid-19 Cases Are Plunging, But Thousands Are Still Dying From Covid-19 Every Day

CNN: Covid-19 daily case rates plunge to one-fifth the record high reached a month ago. But thousands are still dying from Covid-19 every day 

(CNN)While new Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations keep tumbling, more than 2,000 Americans are still dying every day from Covid-19. 

The US is now averaging 151,056 new Covid-19 cases, according to data from Johns Hopkins University. That's a 44% plunge from last week. New Covid-19 cases have plummeted to less than a fifth of the peak of more than 800,000 cases per day a month ago.  

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WNU Editor: Covid cases may be going down, but it was a bad day yesterday for Covid deaths in the U.S. with 2,850 deaths (link here).  

Update: Global Covid cases are going down, but deaths still remain high with 75,000 deaths in the past week .... COVID: New cases decline by 19% worldwide, deaths stabilise (Al Jazeera).

8 comments:

Anonymous said...

f(u,v,w,x,y) = z

Coroners have marked accident and murder victims as COVID. So are this thousand per day dying

FROM

or

WITH

COVID?

I am beginning to think WNU was abused as a child in that they were not given a good STEM grounding in college. My spouse as a good communists was given the option of language training or blue collar labor. They chose the former. STEM opportunities opened up a few years later. I am thinking it was the same with WNU.

From the first pictures of COVID patients from Italy, I noticed the men in the ICU lying on the hospital gurneys with belly fat worthy of Himalayan foothills. These men in the ICU were all sleep study candidates needing an intervention and a CPAP machine before COVID hit. What do you think happens, when something like COVID hits?

But there is good old WNU tirelessly and gratuitous toeing the government line. I swear when it comes to COVID WNU is aw brainless as the 50 year old female news director at the local talk radio station, who fidgets with AP stories and puts up corporatists and government propaganda on the station's news site. Some of the talk show hosts might be good, but the radio news division is brainless.

Anonymous said...

snark is childish
give facts, data, Mr Stem

Anonymous said...


First, where was the snark? Point out the sentence or phrase. You do know what a sentence is, right?

A Response Variable (or dependent variable) is that variable whose variation depends on other variables.

z would be COVID infection outcome

u = diabetes
v = hypertension
w = age
x = obesity
y = sex?

etc

"COVID-19 and Diabetes: A Collision and Collusion of Two Diseases"

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7679769/

"COVID-19 has collided with diabetes, creating especially susceptible populations of patients with both COVID-19 and diabetes. "

Notice how many times the words multivariate analysis are used. Know how such variable interact, most people with a STEM background will be angry with the media and politicians making hay out of COVID in order to obtain money or power.

You do not shut down the economy because aunt Mabel ways 300 hundred pounds has congestive heart failure, hypertension and diabetes and will die next time she is infected with rhino virus, influenza, adenovirus or, corona virus or the next time the wind blows.

Maybe your contribution to the conversation on COVID could be some VOGON poetry?

Nah, that is too much for you. You are not good for it. Maybe you can enthrall us with a short book on Vogon poetry and its conventions. If you do, we run it through a software program and check for plagiarism.

Anonymous said...

Tuesdays are always a high covid death day in the US, lots of states have Sat-Mon lag on reporting.

Anonymous said...

Sat-Mon lag


Why is this happening in the age of computers? There are people in hospitals working around the clock in shifts obviously. Some countries do not have this weekend blip, because their administrative procedures are different.

This blips are an artifact not of the disease, but of our social organization.

Anonymous said...

Sputtering 1:55 reduced to online threats.

Jon said...

Ok fred is surely dead. Are all these posts about smith fighting with his other beings? First post did fill the belly tho

Anonymous said...

Someone was running his website as of Feb 14th.