The horror! The horror!
If
you look at the lines I highlighted in red below, you’ll see that things are
getting worse very fast. I’d noted a temporary drop in the rate of increase in
new cases last week and I wondered if that was a good sign. The answer was clearly
no, and that’s most likely because of under-reporting of new cases in advance
of the Labor Day weekend.
This
week, there were reports of hospitals starting to ration care in Idaho, as well
as ICUs being full in various Southern states. There was one newspaper story
about a man with a heart condition in one of those states, who went to his
local ICU because of heart problems. They had no room for him and had to
contact 29 other hospitals before they found one – in another state – that could
take him. He died before he could be treated. This is the price of the “freedom”
that Govs. DeSantis and Abbott are so concerned about protecting, literally at
any cost.
And
speaking of the price of freedom, Kevin Perry sent me a great article on what
you can expect will happen to you in a severe case of Covid (just in case you’ve
decided to exercise your freedom not to get vaccinated, which I hope isn’t the
case). The writer, a respiratory therapist in Arkansas, describes, very
methodically, the seven stages you can expect, with the first stage being coming
to the ER. The last stage is what another healthcare professional described to
me as “celestial discharge”. The writer tells this story in a very detached
voice (since she’s seen so many of these cases that ended this way), but it
couldn’t be any louder if she screamed it.
The numbers
These numbers were
updated based on those reported on the Worldometers.info site for Sunday, September
12.
Month |
Deaths reported during month |
Avg. deaths per day during
period |
Deaths as percentage of previous month’s |
Month of March 2020 |
4,058 |
131 |
|
Month of April |
59,812 |
1,994 |
1,474% |
Month of May |
42,327 |
1,365 |
71% |
Month of June |
23,925 |
798 |
57% |
Month of July |
26,649 |
860 |
111% |
Month
of August |
30,970 |
999 |
116% |
Month of Sept. |
22,809 |
760 |
75% |
Month of Oct. |
24,332 |
785 |
107% |
Month of Nov. |
38,293 |
1,276 |
157% |
Month of Dec. |
79,850 |
2,576 |
209% |
Total 2020 |
354,215 |
1,154 |
|
Month of Jan. 2021 |
98,604 |
3,181 |
119% |
Month of Feb. |
68,918 |
2,461 |
70% |
Month of March |
37,945 |
1,224 |
55% |
Month of April |
24,323 |
811 |
64% |
Month of May |
19,843 |
661 |
82% |
Month of June |
10,544 |
351 |
53% |
Month of July |
8,833 |
287 |
84% |
Month of August |
31,160 |
1,005 |
351% |
Total Pandemic so far |
679,564 |
1,196 |
|
I. Total deaths (as of Sunday)
Total US reported Covid
deaths as of Sunday: 679,564
Average deaths
last seven days: 1,906
Average deaths previous
seven days: 1,485
Percent increase in total
deaths in the last seven days: 2.0%
II. Total reported cases (as
of Sunday)
Total US reported cases
as of Sunday: 43,036,777
Increase in reported
cases last 7 days: 1,231,518 (= 175,931/day)
Increase in reported
cases previous 7 days: 978,193 (= 139,742/day)
Percent increase in reported
cases in the last seven days: 3.0%
I would love to hear any comments or questions you have
on this post. Drop me an email at tom@tomalrich.com.
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