Coronavirus COVID-19 (2019-nCoV) Thread - 2021 Breaking News

[CalMeacham]

Sit Down For This One: Three Illinois Maps- A Covid, 2020 Election, And Vote...

[Snowboarder_Bo]

226,660,838 total cases
4,662,869 dead
203,340,043 recovered

In the US:

42,288,205 total cases
682,341 dead
32,176,784 recovered

Yesterday’s numbers for comparison:

@Snowboarder_Bo

225,479,436 total cases
4,644,176 dead
202,068,229 recovered

In the US:

41,853,362 total cases
677,988 dead
31,871,868 recovered

Folks, I am on the road and not in my right time zone so my daily numbers posts will be a bit non-standard for a couple more days (aside from missing yesterday entirely they will prolly just be slightly early, is all).

[BippityBoppityBoo]

Hope you are getting to be somewhere fun🥳

[rocking_chair]

no worries, snowboarder bo. you have been amazing keeping this going through this more than a year covid year.

[CalMeacham]

At Least 1 In 500 Americans Has Died Of COVID-19

On March 29, 2020, Dr. Anthony Fauci went on CNN and told viewers that the coronavirus pandemic could cause between 100,000 and 200,000 deaths in the United States. He admitted that he did not like to make a prediction about “such a moving target,” given that “you could so easily be wrong.”

And this prediction was indeed wrong.

At least 664,000 people across the country have died of COVID-19 since the crisis began around 20 months ago, according to data from Johns Hopkins University reported Wednesday.

That means at least 1 in 500 people in the U.S. have died of the coronavirus, as CNN first pointed out. Around 0.2% of our neighbors, friends and loved ones are gone.

Furthermore, the true death toll is likely higher due to a lack of testing early on in the pandemic and differences in how deaths are reported between states. After the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention analyzed case data from February 2020 to May 2021, it estimated that the true number of U.S. COVID-19 deaths was actually 767,000 over that time period. The total would be even higher now.

At Least 1 In 500 Americans Have Died Of COVID-19

[bobot]

I heard that on the radio just now. Not 1 in 500 infected, 1 in 500 killed. The host wondered what the American response would be if a foreign adversary killed 1 in 500 Americans.

[Folly]

@bobot

The host wondered what the American response would be if a foreign adversary killed 1 in 500 Americans.

Well, we wouldn’t be decimated…

Quincentimated I guess.

[Snowboarder_Bo]

Nevada:

The Nevada Hospital Association is urging people to avoid going to emergency rooms except in true emergencies, especially in northern Nevada where a resurgence in coronavirus infections is running double the rate in the Las Vegas area.

Health officials say the 30-day average for daily new coronavirus cases per 100,000 residents has increased fivefold in the Reno-Sparks area over the past six weeks — from 354 at the beginning of August to 1,621 now. The statewide rate is 951, and it’s 720 in Clark County, which includes Las Vegas.

The head of the hospital association says that as a result, “many hospital emergency departments in northern Nevada are at capacity with patients.”

State officials said Wednesday that 1,090 people were hospitalized at the beginning of the week for confirmed or suspected cases of COVID-19, the disease that can be caused by the coronavirus.

[Snowboarder_Bo]

Arizona:

The Navajo Nation on Wednesday reported 45 more COVID-19 cases and five additional deaths.

The latest numbers pushed the tribe’s totals to 33,338 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 1,426 known deaths from the virus since the pandemic began more than a year ago.

Navajo officials are urging people to get vaccinated, wear masks while in public and minimize their travel.

Officials said all Navajo Nation executive branch employees will need to be fully vaccinated against the virus by the end of September or submit to regular testing.

The new rules apply to full, part-time and temporary employees, including those working for tribal enterprises like utilities, shopping centers and casinos.

Any worker who does not show proof of vaccination by Sept. 29 must be tested every two weeks or face discipline.

It sure doesn’t seem to be priority for the Navajo Nation. What the fuck?

[Snowboarder_Bo]

Pennsylvania:

Pennsylvania residents who are unvaccinated against the coronavirus were far more likely to contract COVID-19, become hospitalized and die than those who got the shot, health officials said Tuesday in the first public release of data on so-called “breakthrough” infections in the state.

More than 35,000 people who were fully vaccinated have tested positive for the virus since January, representing only 6% of all cases statewide, according to the data released Tuesday. More than 1,800 vaccinated people were hospitalized and 213 died — both representing a tiny fraction of all COVID-19-related hospitalizations and deaths since the beginning of the year, the data show.

Unvaccinated people and those who have yet to be fully vaccinated had seven times the risk of contracting the virus and nearly eight times the risk of death as those offered full protection by a vaccine, according to the data.

The relative scarcity of milder breakthrough cases among residents who got the vaccine shows the shots are working, state health officials said.

[Whack-a-Mole]

Does this happen in red states more than blue states?

All Anchorage ICU beds full as Alaska COVID hospitalizations keep rising

[Dr.Drake]

There’s factors that corrolate with redness / blueness that might not be directly politics-related: population density / geographical area served by hospitals. I imagine that a bright blue Alaska would still be more vulnerable to stress in its hospital system. Not to disregard mitigation behaviour or lack thereof and the political subcultures that push that, though. Difficult to separate where culture comes from politics vs correlates with it for underlying reasons such as rural individualism.

[Ann_Hedonia]

I worked it out months ago that we were getting close to that point, and I’ve been telling people that try to minimize the deaths that “it’s close to killing one in 500 Americans, and we will be there before it’s done” all summer.

[Euphonious_Polemic]

I just posted that 1:500 number on another site. There’s a dude there who has been minimizing Covid since spring 2020. He mocked the small number of deaths initially.
When confronted with the updated numbers, he then crowed that this meant 499/500 were still living, so he was right. He then proceeded to inform us that it’s no big deal, since we were all going to die eventually. He capped it off with a news article about the death of someone in Afghanistan, saying that it was clear we did not care about this, and it was Biden’s fault.

The dude is not a troll… he is very sincere in his posts.

[Tfletch1]

@Euphonious_Polemic

The dude is not a troll… he is very sincere in his posts.

Some people just don’t understand numbers. 13 soldiers died in the Kabul attack? So covid is about 58000 Kabul attacks.

[Dr.Drake]

That assumes that one soldier killed in battle = one American dead, a calculation I don’t think everyone would agree with. It is pretty clear that for some, a military person who dies in service is worth well more than one regular person, though I don’t know that anyone is so crass as to express that mathematically.

[Tfletch1]

@Dr.Drake

though I don’t know that anyone is so crass as to express that mathematically.

Apparently the person @Euphonious_Polemic mentioned did just that. Just 1 in 500 regular people die.

[Snowboarder_Bo]

It isn’t just Idaho and Alaska:

COVID-19 surge forces health care rationing in parts of West

[Snowboarder_Bo]

227,836,038 total cases
4,684,149 dead
204,513,177 recovered

In the US:

42,634,054 total cases
688,486 dead
32,347,726 recovered

YesterdayTwo days ago’s numbers for comparison:

@Snowboarder_Bo

226,660,838 total cases
4,662,869 dead
203,340,043 recovered

In the US:

42,288,205 total cases
682,341 dead
32,176,784 recovered

[asahi]

What the map doesn’t tell you is that people living in urban cities that have far fewer cases per 10,000 can’t find hospital beds because the unvaccinated shitkickers are crushing their local hospitals and being moved to larger urban centers. So if someone in Chicago has a heart attack or gets seriously injured in a traffic accident, it’s increasingly likely that they’re screwed.