A good retrospective on (some of) what went wrong
Deaths
dropped significantly last week vs. the previous week, so we may be on our way
out of this. But we were sure of that around July of last year, when – as you
can see below – we had the lowest deaths of any month of the pandemic so far
other than March 2020, the first month. And then Delta came roaring in,
followed by Omicron.
It
would be nice to think we’re finally through all of that, but the fact remains
that a large portion of the world’s population is still unvaccinated, mostly through
lack of the opportunity but also through sheer obstinance (see MAGA Cult, Deleterious
effects of). The pandemic will never be fully under control until the great majority
of people in the world are vaccinated – and regularly boosted, as necessary.
This
is one of the points made in a great article
I just read in the Times. It discusses 4 or 5 of the biggest mistakes
that – in retrospect – made the pandemic much more deadly than it had to be,
starting with China’s initial suppression of the news that human-to-human
transmission of the new virus was possible, and including the fact that there
was no initial effort to include the rest of the world – other than the rich
countries – in the benefits of vaccines. We have all paid the price for that,
not just the people who died in the developing world, after the vaccines were
widely available in the richer countries.
The numbers
These numbers were
updated based on those reported on the Worldometers.info site for Sunday, March
6.
Month |
Deaths
reported during month/year |
Avg. deaths per
day during month/year |
Deaths as
percentage of previous month/year |
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% |
Month of Sept. |
56,687 |
1,890 |
182% |
Month of Oct. |
49,992 |
1,613 |
88% |
Month of Nov. |
38,364 |
1,279 |
77% |
Month of Dec. |
41,452 |
1,337 |
108% |
Total 2021 |
492,756 |
1,350 |
158% |
Month of Jan. 2022 |
65,855 |
2,124 |
159% |
Month of Feb. 2022 |
63,451 |
2,266 |
96% |
Total Pandemic so far |
986,531 |
1,366 |
|
I. Total deaths (as of Sunday)
Total US reported Covid
deaths as of Sunday: 986,531
Average daily deaths last
seven days: 1,588
Average daily deaths previous
seven days: 2,286
Percent increase in total
deaths in the last seven days: 1.1%
II. Total reported cases (as
of Sunday)
Total US reported cases
as of Sunday: 80,965,066
Increase in reported
cases last 7 days: 332,034 (47,433/day)
Increase in reported
cases previous 7 days: 545,415 (77,916/day)
Percent increase in
reported cases in the last seven days: 0.4% (0.7% last week)
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