COVID-19 is killing 20 times more people per week than flu does, new paper says

a reply to: Gryphon66

It's not alone....
There is alot of areas where the only hospital may have very few ICU beds...
Its gonna be rather easy to overwhelm our healthcare systems in some areas of the country.

originally posted by: dawnstar
a reply to: Gryphon66

It's not alone....
There is alot of areas where the only hospital may have very few ICU beds...
Its gonna be rather easy to overwhelm our healthcare systems in some areas of the country.

That was/is one of the concerns in many of the models.

And even if it's not true for COVID, it may be true for the next iteration.

CDC Excess deaths show excess deaths consistent with reported numbers. The data is also a week or two behind so these numbers will end up being higher then currently shown. The deaths are happening, the fact some don't want to believe it, cannot be helped.

www.cdc.gov...

originally posted by: sligtlyskeptical
CDC Excess deaths show excess deaths consistent with reported numbers. The data is also a week or two behind so these numbers will end up being higher then currently shown. The deaths are happening, the fact some don't want to believe it, cannot be helped.

www.cdc.gov...

"Excess deaths" that's an interesting phrase, what exactly are these deaths exceeding? Expectations for your typical flu casualties or the literal millions of people who died from heart attack and cancer in the last five years? Not to mention alcohol and opioid related body count that makes Covid19 look like the common cold. It's strange how suddenly these numbers are unacceptable, or perhaps not so strange because now some very important business & political assets are at risk and THAT is what they call unacceptable.

I wonder how do they know who died of covid. Because we already know how many died with it but not really because of it...And if fruits and goats get tested positive I call bs on the entire research. Science is just another religion. I wonder how many times I will have to say it this year

a reply to: TzarChasm

Excess deaths is the overage of deaths for time period one year as compared to previous years during the same time period for a set location or nationally.

originally posted by: carewemust
It's sad how the news media is so eagerly anticipating the moment when the USA hits 100,000 deaths.

The official CDC website says just under 74,000 deaths thus far.

Source: www.cdc.gov...

But the idiots on CBS News started out the top of the evening news today by playing funeral background music, putting "100,000 Deaths" on the screen, while saying in their most dire voice... "The U.S. is nearing a grim benchmark of 100,000 CoronaVirus deaths tonight".

But the media will not mention that very few Americans know someone who has died of Covid-19.

Well at least we know the CDC numbers are fudge.... more than half those is just from old age, they can say covid related all day, but it doesn't mean jack...

Before the Nov. election the fudge number will be past 100,000, just so they can say orange man bad.