2,861 deaths from the virus have already been reported in the last 28 days.

  • aramis87
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    2515 hours ago

    This past week, 1.6% of all deaths in the United States were from covid.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      2015 hours ago

      *reported as due to COVID

      As the pandemic shows, official numbers are often far lower than actual mortality, and this effect is probably much stronger now that COVID tests aren’t routine anymore.

      • aramis87
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        415 hours ago

        I’d argue that most people with severe covid would seek medical attention once they started having difficulty breathing, so most covid deaths probably occur in hospitals, where covid tests are cheap and plentiful. So the internal numbers from hospitals are probably accurate.

        This doesn’t prevent medical examiners who don’t “believe” in covid from changing the data, or moronic red states (cough Florida cough) from simply not reporting it.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          1715 hours ago

          Loads of people die from heart attack, stroke, etc which is triggered by COVID. These are common. It is not routine to order a COVID test in these cases, so the cases are almost definitely being undercounted.

  • @BananaTrifleViolin
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    3116 hours ago

    Bird Flu is coming - Trump is the president of pandemics, and whose betting he will handle this one any better than covid?

    • SerotoninSwells
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      “Mighty Nurgle! Festering grandfather of plagues! Hear your servants prayer! Look upon the devastation I have wrought, the diseases I have spread, the unbelievers I have infested with you’re suppurating truth. I beg of your favor and your boon, that I might strive all the harder to spread your blessings across the stars.”

      Just saying, the current Right wing zeitgeist frequently reminds me of 40k’s Nurgle.

    • @ChonkyOwlbear
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      1815 hours ago

      I’m betting that at some point he will ban killing potentially infected chicken populations because he wants to keep egg prices down.

      • @moakley
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        I’ll take that bet. Republicans have already stopped looking at or caring about egg prices.

      • @Frozengyro
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        615 hours ago

        If only we had practice on what to do.