Here’s the true cost of getting your health information from Tucker Carlson


Note that the number of new cases last week, 430,000, is more than double what it was just two weeks previous to that, and close to 200,000 more than the previous week. So coronavirus cases are definitely turning up again (of course, with the much greater use of home testing, these numbers are very low compared to what they would have been a year ago, although hopefully the week-to-week comparisons are still usable).

Average daily deaths haven’t turned up, but for the last three weeks the number has been almost exactly the same: about 476. It remains to be seen whether they’ll start climbing again. It’s disappointing that we can’t seem to get lower than that number, since we were at less than 300 a day last July.

Philip Bump, an excellent center-right columnist with WaPo, published a good column last week, which showed that about a quarter of total US pandemic deaths (i.e. over 250,000) were probably preventable by vaccination. And since vaccines only became widely available last June, the real percentage of preventable deaths is an astounding 61%.

But Bump goes one step further: Last November, Republicans were estimated to be three times more likely to be unvaccinated than Democrats. So that means ¾ of the preventable deaths were among Republicans – which isn’t far from 200,000. I certainly hope the families of all of those people are happy that they didn’t cave in to the left wing press and get vaccinated. After all, as the Texas lieutenant governor said in 2020, some things are more important than life. Owning the libs is one of them.

Another figure: Vietnam which was very late to get vaccinations, now is over 90% vaccinated, whereas the US is a little over 70%. At least the Vietnamese know what’s good for them!

 

The numbers

These numbers were updated based on those reported on the Worldometers.info site for Sunday, April 25.

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%

Month of March 2022

31,427

1,014

50%

Total Pandemic so far

1,015,451

1,329

 

 

I. Total deaths (as of Sunday)

Total US reported Covid deaths as of Sunday: 1,018,718

Average daily deaths last seven days: 467

Average daily deaths previous seven days: 461

Percent increase in total deaths in the last seven days: 0.3%

II. Total reported cases (as of Sunday)

Total US reported cases as of Sunday: 82,747,175

Increase in reported cases last 7 days: 430,827

Increase in reported cases previous 7 days: 242,897 (34,700)

Percent increase in reported cases in the last seven days: 0.5% (0.3% last week)

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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