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Hospitalizations give a better picture, since no one can say that dropping hospitalizations are because fewer people are being tested.
In my Southern California county, hospitalizations are down 75% from the peak in early January.
Cases, for what it's worth, are down about 95%. They are at about the level of early November, which is right when our cases started to rise sharply.
You would think. But there is no real standard in how hospitals decide, treat, or report covid "cases". They can fudge data as they want. For example, when you hear at 90% ICU capacity, they can add/remove ICU beds to adjust that percentage. They can put non-covid patients in the covid ward.
The problem with all things in the health/medical industry is lack of transparency. It's like a secret world. Because they have to protect patient 'privacy'.
It's estimated to be around 4-6 months but if you were able to survive the infection without serious complications then you have nothing to worry about. Your immune system passed the test.
My guess is that if you had a severe case of covid and got well, no vaccine, you should have a very strong long lasting immunity. They found that people that got measles early in life acuqired a strong life long immunity, much stronger and better then the measles vaccine.
Cases are still higher than the first and summer surges (7 day moving average). They are predicting another surge once certain variants become dominant, but we will have to see.
Averaging 70K cases a day, and 2100 deaths a day isn't exactly a win. Better than 200K.
Good? No.
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Cases are still higher than the first and summer surges (7 day moving average). They are predicting another surge once certain variants become dominant, but we will have to see.
Averaging 70K cases a day, and 2100 deaths a day isn't exactly a win. Better than 200K.
Good? No.
Yes, and reported cases worldwide including US have not continued to fall over the past week, they've leveled off.
Maybe Natural Immunity from having had Covid? Far more people have had it than have been vaccinated at this point.
Not true. Less then 20% of the US Population has had Covid last time I checked a month ago. US Vaccinations were at 12% last time I checked a week ago.
Combine those and we are at probably just over a third of the population.
Yes, and reported cases worldwide including US have not continued to fall over the past week, they've leveled off.
I think we just put 2M towards sequencing. We are finding out all kinds of bad stuff. New born with covid with some insane viral load, not witnessed before, a NY variant scattered on the Eastern seaboard.
Last couple days 7 day average have ticked up a small amount for the first time in like in month, very small though.
I think we WILL see the variant surge, but hope I'm wrong.
Need to out-vaccinate the growth.
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Not true. Less then 20% of the US Population has had Covid last time I checked a month ago. US Vaccinations were at 12% last time I checked a week ago.
Combine those and we are at probably just over a third of the population.
Covid projections currently showing an estimated 28% as of two weeks ago. Dr. Scott Gottlieb more or less agreed this past week, thinks it may even be higher- near 1 in 3.
Newly Vaccinated (as of Feb 24): 715,000 / day (438 / 100k)
Total Vaccinated (as of Feb 24): 13.8% (1 in 7 | 45.7 million)
Newly Infected (as of Feb 10): 161,000 / day (50 / 100k)
Currently Infected (as of Feb 10): 1 in 100 (1.0% | 3.2 million)
Total Infected (as of Feb 10): 28.1% (1 in 4 | 93.1 million)
Not true. Less then 20% of the US Population has had Covid last time I checked a month ago. US Vaccinations were at 12% last time I checked a week ago.
Combine those and we are at probably just over a third of the population.
That's assuming the figures are correct. There are so many people who get it and don't even know they have it, and there is literally no way to count them. Also, there were LOTS of people who were sick early in 2020 with what everyone thought was a cold or flu but testing was unavailable, so they also were not counted.
I would put money on the fact that at least twice as many people have had covid than the numbers reflect, if not higher.
Well considering the same amount of people die every year in the US from smoking... not many. I would be willing to bet most don't know that either. Heck, we even allow the advertising and promotion of that. Heck, we even tax it.
I know dozens that got sick form this. Myself included. Many of those did not bother to go get tested. I would be willing to bet that over half the country has already had it.
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