we can give it another week or 2.... but... so far it appears from the data.... the shutdown must not have done anything.... now remember lefties its not the site or the author... its the data https://wattsupwiththat.com/daily-coronavirus-covid-19-data-graph-page/#001
The percentage of positive tests is meaningless unless there is data on how many tests have been performed.
first of all there is 2nd... what you are saying makes no sense if you are trying to get a feel for whether the virus is spreading or disappearing. Its not a perfect measure but its a lot better than just raw positives.
this is why we know you as a dnc troll with no integrity. I predicted you would do that.... the website does not matter. the data comes from the accepted sources... like worldometer.
Lockdowns may have averted 3 million deaths in Europe by curbing COVID-19: study https://kfgo.com/2020/06/08/lockdow...n-deaths-in-europe-by-curbing-covid-19-study/ Wide-scale lockdowns including shop and school closures have reduced COVID-19 transmission rates in Europe enough to control its spread and may have averted more than three million deaths, researchers said on Monday. In a modelling study of lockdown impact in 11 nations, Imperial College London scientists said the draconian steps, imposed mostly in March, had "a substantial effect" and helped bring the infection's reproductive rate below one by early May. The reproduction rate, or R value, measures the average number of people that one infected person will pass the disease on to. An R value above 1 can lead to exponential growth. The Imperial team estimated that by early May, between 12 and 15 million people in the 11 countries - Austria, Belgium, Britain, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland - had been infected with COVID-19. By comparing the number of deaths counted with deaths predicted by their model if no lockdown measures had been introduced, they found some 3.1 million deaths were averted. "Measuring the effectiveness of these interventions is important, given their economic and social impacts, and may indicate which course of action is needed to maintain control," the researchers said in a summary of their findings. A second study by scientists in the United States, published alongside the Imperial-led one in the journal Nature, estimated that anti-contagion lockdown policies implemented in China, South Korea, Italy, Iran, France and the United States prevented or delayed around 530 million COVID-19 cases. Focusing their analysis on these six countries, the U.S. research team compared infection growth rates before and after the implementation of more than 1,700 local, regional and national policies designed to slow or halt the spread of COVID-19, the disease caused by the new SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus. They found that without anti-contagion policies in place, early infection rates of SARS-CoV-2 grew by 68% a day in Iran and an average of 38% a day across the other five countries. Using econometric modelling normally used in assessing economic policies, they found lockdowns had slowed the infection rate with "measurable beneficial health outcomes in most cases".
Reminds me of this hilarity: Obama advisers: 1M jobs saved or created By Matt Kelley, USA TODAY September 10, 2009, 11:22 PM 3 min read WASHINGTON -- President Obama's economic advisers estimated Thursday that the economic stimulus package has saved or created about 1 million jobs, drawing immediate criticism from Republicans. Christina Romer, the head of Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, said her team consulted other economists for its report to Congress on the likely effects of the $787 billion package of tax cuts, government spending and aid to states. The administration's million-job estimate, while preliminary and uncertain, was "in the middle of the plausible range" of estimates made by independent experts, she said. "An economy that was in free-fall with a tremendous amount of downward momentum" is now improving in part because of the stimulus package, Romer said.
Did you know that an efficient sewer system saves approx. 120,000,000 lives per year, by preventing sepsis? Geez, I didn't either. Just like how eating enough citrus prevents 200,000 deaths per year from scurvy. Or how simply eating a daily metamegavitamegavin pill saves 31,000 elderly people each year from breaking their backs, because it has enough calcium to help strengthen their bones. There is a lot of death prevented by eating less and exercising, as well. And soooo many people refuse to get their flu shot. How many people per year does THAT one kill? Hrmmmm!