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.