Studies: Fatality Rates
From COVID Are
Dropping Sharply Everywhere
Hot Air,
by
Allahpundit
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
10/20/2020 7:46:48 PM
For the second straight day, a bright light shines through the gloom of a darkening COVID outlook this fall. Yesterday the good news was that fears of schools becoming mass incubators of coronavirus appear to be overblown. Positivity rates across a sample of tens of thousands of students and staff in NYC are minuscule. Maybe we can have safe in-class instruction this fall. Today’s news is even better. As cases explode in Europe and climb towards a new peak in the U.S., a tantalizing mystery has emerged: Why aren’t we seeing the same crushing death tolls in hot spots that we saw in the spring? Deaths *are* rising
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Starboard_side 10/20/2020 8:26:24 PM (No. 578997)
Some good news which means the MSM won't report it.
Their desire to report new cases, and then talk about the total that have been infected since January as though it's that many who are still infected is horrendous reporting.
98% recover, generally within 5-10 days.
We now know how to treat it much better than in Jan-April which also translates into far fewer deaths.
They just don't want people to think President Trump's quick travel response, his pushing, cajoling, prompting, expecting more from government entities, putting FEMA in charge of working with each governor who would know their state better than using a one-size-fits-all approach, had anything to do with the incredible response across so many fields and industries.
He should mention in Thursday's debate how he knew someone better do those things to get the wheels in motion, and how an executive who's been in charge of things sometimes has to be tough on people to make sure things get done in expeditious manner.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
montwoodcliff 10/20/2020 8:29:09 PM (No. 579000)
I had my scheduled visit with my family physician last week and I asked him what was going on with the virus in our community. He told me that when this pandemic hit, it was pretty bad. People were dying, those with secondary conditions, but now there are no problems. The virus is mutating and the cases are milder and nowhere near as severe as they were in the beginning. That is what is going on. There is less to worry about. Meanwhile everyone in his office is still wearing masks.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Italiano 10/20/2020 8:29:10 PM (No. 579001)
My word. Who could have predicted this???
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
stablemoney 10/20/2020 8:31:37 PM (No. 579004)
We didn't have all those spikes in positive tests until everyone started wearing masks and making themselves sick. The timing coincides directly. By the way, look at the dust on one of your end tables. People didn't cause that, and the windows closed and fastened down, and the curtain drawn did not keep it from getting in the house.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 10/20/2020 8:34:22 PM (No. 579010)
In our area the news reported a gazillion new 'cases', but made an off-hand comment that the number of deaths had 'stayed steady'. What does 'stayed steady mean'?? No additional deaths!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
lakerman1 10/20/2020 9:08:41 PM (No. 579041)
Early on in the treatment of Kung Flu, hospitals were intubating patients and putting them on ventilators.
my theory is that the procedure might have been fatal. 80% of thosplaced on ventilators, it was reported, died.
When Boris Johnson, prime minister of England, was hospitalized with Kung Flu, he was having significant breathing problems. And it was reported that his physicians were about to put him on a ventilator, but did not.
They may have saved his life with that decision.
George Washington was probably anemic, but his physician bled him, a practice considered standard medical practice back around 1800. At that time, physicians believed a person's body could have too much fluid - blood - and acted accordingly.
When president James Garfield was shot in 1881 by a man seeking a federal job, Garfield's surgeon probably didn't observe surgical technique as he probed for the bullet..
The wound was otherwise non lethal. it didn't help when they loaded Garfield onto a train, taking him to New Jersey, believing the salt air would be good for him.
medical treatment killed Garfield.
but it did give us one of my favorite presidents -Chester Arthur, a political operative from New York City.
It also gave us the Civil Service Act of 1993, in an attempt to make sure federal workers were non political.
it took Jimmy Carter's civil service reform of 1978 to mess that up.
but I digress...
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Venturer 10/20/2020 9:08:47 PM (No. 579042)
Get rid of the horrible masks
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
lakerman1 10/20/2020 9:51:42 PM (No. 579068)
oops. Sterile technique, not surgical technique..
oops again - Civil Service act of 1883.
Time for bed.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
worried 10/20/2020 10:06:03 PM (No. 579075)
Perhaps it is because they are no longer putting the virus as the cause of death, as they were doing despite the actual cause. The first few months almost all deaths were attributed to Covid. Now the truth is coming out.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
DVC 10/21/2020 12:59:48 AM (No. 579162)
Probably mostly due to better treatments. Remember, in the beginning the docs had only a rough idea how to treat this virus. After a lot of hard lessons, they know a lot more what works and doesn't work.
Of course, the easy and cheap HCQ is insanely banned in the USA, used elsewhere to good advantage if started early.
IMO, the Regeneron monoclonal antibodies treatment will ultimately be THE medical treatment which disarms this virus.
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