Death rate here in Florida has been dropping - 7 day average is 91.86. So is that great - 92 people a day? Meanwhile the raw actual day to day deaths the previous 4 days were 106, 174, 127 & 110 or all above the average so that is not going in the right direction. New cases have been stable to slightly down for a while now. Think that is because of course it stays warmer down here longer and "snowbirds" have not all arrived yet. As for NY even though it's 7 day deaths average is only 7.27, that is the highest since Aug 18th. New cases average is 1124.86, highest since June 4th. Nationally the deaths average, like Florida, has been dropping, but as well the previous 4 days are higher than the average itself. While new cases have been stable to slightly higher, but then again last 3 days have been above the average. Anyway deaths always lag new cases so nothing to crow about. Later when I have today's numbers, if I think of it, I'll post charts to give a clearer picture.
Exactly. Death rates not falling because of heard immunity but rather falling because of more treatments available to people after infection. Treatments such as the one they are using on Trump (Regeneron), convalescent blood transfusion, corticosteroids use, more ventilators added to our hospital inventories, etc... even some HIV anti-viral drugs are helping people already infected now. Countries like Sweden which show heard immunity are very very different from the USA. They have small populations and no huge, over-crowded cities. Their population is much healthier than Americans...especially older people there. Their diet is much better. Their exercise is much better. They have a very high level of medical care (everyone is covered) and medical research (Karolinska Institute is one of the best medical research centers in the world and where the Nobel Prize in Medicine is judged and presented). The country itself is somewhat isolated from surrounding countries by water or by the fact that connected countries are also very sparsely populated. They already spend 10 months of the year indoors without even being locked down.
Tired of idiots like you posting this crap. If only 6% were from Covid then you wouldn't be running massive infection and death rates far above most first world countries. When it comes to Covid, some of you are just jackasses, too dumb to shut up about things you don't understand.
Also, people are ignoring that there are observed risks of ongoing critical health issues for 3-6 months and possibly a lot longer. It's no cold or minor flu. The only reason some of the North East states ( and parts of Canada initially ) had larger overall numbers is the outbreak hit there first before the medical community had any idea how to treat the disease and fully how to control the spread. The real shame is in areas like Florida that had that information, were lucky enough to not get hit early on, yet stumbled into a huge mess regardless because the public refused to listen to real medical knowledge.
It's because the Northeastern region of the US is full of very smart people who do not put up with bullshit. We wear the mask, we use the hand-sanitizer, and we wash our hands when we get home. It's so easy to see the problem, the wild turkeys here have scattered to the winds while saying, "Y'all infected? Well, F that."
Exactly. I'm not sure why Sweden is being used as a successful example of herd immunity as a method to beat the virus. Sweden's death count is appallingly high by any measures.