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Peak Fall Covid?
I’ve been keeping track of some Covid-19 metrics. I’m particularly interested in the percent of new tests that are positive (%+) and the change in the number of hospitalizations. Those metrics indicate that the fall surge of Covid that’s been brewing up since late September might be topping out. The following graphs are based on data from the Covid tracking project. The calculations and graphs (and any errors) are my own.
The red line in the graph below is a seven-day moving average of %+ over the past 60 days. It appears to be forming a top and rolling over. The last three daily data points ( not the moving average) have actually been going down very slightly.
This is being mirrored by the seven-day moving average of the change in hospitalizations. Again, it appears that the recent surge might be topping out.
Let’s hope this continues. Fingers crossed.
Did Cuomo purposely kill nursing home residents to increase the death count?
The age stats are available on most state sites. The average age of COVID fatalities is 74-84 depending on whose calculations you get. The 2019 US life expectancy was 78.8. As deadly as this bug is, 94% of LTC residents here in MD do not die from COVID and 99.969% of the rest of us are not dead from COVID either.
This ‘pandemic’ has not decreased US life expectancy.
Can we call this a ‘pandemic’? Contrast to the Spanish Flu 1918-20 when many fatalities were under age 45
Nah. Just panicked. He had visions of overwhelmed hospitals and made room any way he could.
Hospitalization numbers are irrelevant unless they separate out the regular people who are in the hospital but happened to be tested and tested positive, but that testing has nothing to do with why the person is in the hospital.
Examples; woman in hospital to deliver her baby, heart attack victim, car accident victim.
If the above positive cases are considered “COVID hospitalizations,” that is fudging the numbers.
The important thing is that the percentage of people under 70 who die of COVID is extremely small. (Which is something the media is not willing to emphasize.)
Then you are getting data from totally different sources than I am.