Even though new coronavirus infections are rising in America and around the world, new coronavirus deaths are largely flat, a trend largely missing from most mainstream media coverage.
Experts say the fact that new coronavirus deaths appear to remain flat is driven by more younger patients getting infected and recovering amid reopenings as the worst of the pandemic passes.On Wednesday evening, the Washington Post issued a breaking news email alert headlined “New coronavirus cases in the U.S. soar to highest single-day total.”
“Across the United States,” reported the Post, “more than 36,000 new infections were reported by state health departments on Wednesday — surpassing the previous single-day record of 34,203 set on April 25.”
Yet the article failed to mention that even while new infections are on the rise, new COVID-19 deaths are not.
This vital information gap in the media is causing some health policy experts to worry that fear about the coronavirus — evidenced, for example, by Wednesday’s sharp stock market drop — is not founded in facts, particularly about how the virus disparately impacts different age groups. The spreading of unfounded alarm, the experts fear, could risk deep harm to Americans’ livelihoods and mental health due to a prolonged, widespread shutdown.
The coronavirus has ravaged elderly populations in nursing homes and those with underlying comorbidities, but now the virus appears to be striking those who are younger and healthier and more able to withstand the disease and return to life normally.
Vanderbilt University School of Medicine professor Dr. William Schaffner, who specializes in preventive medicine and infectious diseases, noted in an interview with Just the News that for example, in Florida, reports indicate that it is middle-aged and younger adults now being hit with COVID-19.
Data from Oxford University show that even though the confirmed daily reported COVID-19 cases have been ticking up in the United States in recent days (as testing has soared), daily confirmed deaths have not risen.
Similar trends are seen worldwide, according to Oxford: Daily confirmed cases have been rising, but daily confirmed deaths have not.
@Greg: Faux xi discredited himself, his own mouth as he sought fame on every TV, first downplaying then fear mongering.
2018 the hospitals were overwhelmed with flu, the talking heads said nothing of it.
His lying about masks for the general public, he has proven he cant be trusted with public health..
I think we really need to test the accuracy of these tests.
@Greg: Testing and protests.
This is for George Wells and any other Lefty who even entertains the idea he expresses above contrasting Russia’s Marxism with Antifa’s and BLM’s that Marxism was done wrong but it would be good if we American Lefties did it:
You’re not that good, and even if you were good, you’re not going to be the leader but even if you were there’d be a ruthless Marxist sneaking up behind you to kill you and take your place.
Then he points out that Stalin did just that, rounding up and killing all those rebels who fought for the success of the Russian revolution. He killed all of them AND their families!
Back on topic.
Here’s an interesting take on why we’re seeing this spike in cases:
Scott Atlas, M.D., a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, thinks California, Arizona and the bordering counties of Texas — with the Mexico border — these are where most of these cases are really exploding.
Look at the Mexico map and in Mexico, that’s where their cases are.
Their cases are in the northern border zone states.
And it turns out the timeline here correlates much more to the Mexico timeline of increasing cases than anything else.
And the surge away from border states?
He opines:
Thousands and thousands of people protesting, sharing megaphones, screaming. That’s a setup to spread cases.
All schools should be open. Scientific data now show the are zero caseS of viral transmission from children to adults. More fake news
‘Mask it or casket’ says state emergency chief as Governor orders Texans to wear masks
Do they sound like they’re joking?
@Greg: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/68-percent-of-people-at-a-new-york-clinic-tested-positive-for-coronavirus-antibodies/ar-BB16BiuN?li=BBnbcA1
nearly 70 % of NY now immune?
Would it have been higher if they had not locked down and just protected the frail instead of intentionally infecting and murdering them?