Losing Battle Against Omicron | 103 comments (103 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Losing Battle Against Omicron (none / 1)

US:

Cases in the last 7 days: 1,017,780

Number of new cases Dec 20: 143,530

Currently active cases: 10,511,784

Projection of deaths in active cases: 210,235

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Tue Dec 21st, 2021 at 04:38:37 PM EST

Re: Losing Battle Against Omicron (none / 1)

Comment by Biden in the debate:

Democratic White House hopeful Joe Biden said Thursday during his final debate with President Donald Trump that presiding over the nation as 220,000 Americans died from the coronavirus should disqualify Trump from reelection.
"Anyone who's responsible for that many deaths should not remain as president of the United States of America," Biden said in the opening remarks of the showdown that comes just 12 days before the election.

by gk (gk (gk quattro due due sette @gmail.com)) on Tue Dec 21st, 2021 at 04:42:44 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Hardly his fault (none / 1)

Conservatives and other ignorant hicks are actively fighting prevention measures.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Tue Dec 21st, 2021 at 04:46:32 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Losing Battle Against Omicron (none / 1)

Trump's Actions and Non-Actions are laid out here:

Select Subcommittee's Year-End Staff Report Highlights Oversight Work, Releases New Findings from Ongoing Investigations

Bullet Points:

Then-President Trump held a meeting at the White House with a "fringe group" that advocated for a dangerous herd immunity strategy embraced by then-White House Special Advisor Dr. Scott Atlas.

Dr. Birx and former Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Principal Deputy Director Dr. Anne Schuchat detailed a series of early missteps that contributed to the Trump Administration's ineffectual coronavirus response.

The Trump White House intentionally "softened" CDC's public health guidance for faith communities.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Tue Dec 21st, 2021 at 04:54:11 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Losing Battle Against Omicron (4.00 / 2)

That's a 2% case mortality rate. Is it really that high?

A society committed to the notion that government is always bad will have bad government. And it doesn't have to be that way. — Paul Krugman

by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue Dec 21st, 2021 at 05:34:00 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Losing Battle Against Omicron (4.00 / 2)

2% is the most common, as "measured" (sic) by number of days. In the US the death rate has been as high as 8% and as low as 1%

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre

by ATinNM on Tue Dec 21st, 2021 at 05:57:12 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Losing Battle Against Omicron (none / 1)

Quite likely considering most deaths are un-vaxxed.

by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Tue Dec 21st, 2021 at 10:49:21 PM EST
[ Parent ]

multi-factor data analysis is a bitch, ain't it (none / 1)

archived Tue Mar 24th, 2020 in The patterns of a pandemic

by Cat on Wed Dec 22nd, 2021 at 03:42:17 PM EST
[ Parent ]

Re: Losing Battle Against tabloid nudging (none / 0)