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Covid 19 Close to Losing Epidemic Status

Captain Adverse said:
Correction, it's not going to be over, any more than the Flu is over. That's been around since the Spanish Flu outbreak in 1918.

However, we will adapt to it over time just like the Flu. Likely have a vaccine sooner than later to help.

This is still the USA and we will deal with it.
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How did you come to this conclusion? Being the USA hasn't seemed to help our covid-19 outcomes.
 
For me, this is very much a mixed blessing. While news of its diminution is welcome, I have every expectation that as soon as it becomes downgraded from being a pandemic to merely localized epidemics, that will give some people license in my neighborhood to stop wearing masks - which will put me at risk. And while it may be inevitable that I catch the damned thing, I'd prefer to put it off until much more is known about its more successful treatment modalities. They're still discovering things about it that were not widely known just last month. If things open up too soon, I'll have to start wearing more protective masks just for my own benefit. And those are more restrictive and much less comfortable.
 
The danger presented by the SARS-CoV-2 virus can be dramatically reduced by general availability of a safe and effective vaccine. Assuming that one can be developed in a reasonable amount of time*, total deaths can be reduced by slowing the spread of the disease until it's widely available. That, in turn, means that safe practices should not be abandoned.

Regards, stay safe 'n well.


* It has been many years since the virus responsible for AIDS was identified.
 
Wayne Jr said:
Sending thoughts and prayers to Covid-19. I wish it's family well in this difficult time.
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Because "thoughts and prayers" work so well, right? Tell that to the family of the idiot bishop who proudly proclaimed that "god is larger than this virus" and decided social distancing was a dumb idea. He died of Covid-19 a couple of days later, but not before infecting the rest of his family and several members of his congregation.

Gerald Glenn: Bishop who said "God is larger than" Covid-19 has died from the disease - CNN


You ain't seen nothin' yet mate and the worst is yet to come. The pandemic is not going away on Trump's orders.
 
snakestretcher said:
Not even close; America hasn't seen the worst of this yet.
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According to the CDC 10 straight weeks of declining deaths. Thus the coming removal of epidemic status. :applaud
 
VySky said:
According to the CDC 10 straight weeks of declining deaths. Thus the coming removal of epidemic status. :applaud
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Nonsense. Your rates of infection are through the roof. Just because people are being treated better does not imply that Covid-19 is going away any time soon.
 
HumblePi said:
The welcome news comes as fear over a "second wave" of the virus has gripped the U.S., with some states experiencing fresh surges of COVID-19 along with increased hospitalizations.
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The second wave has resulted in large part from the large increases in testing ability.

It's funny that while there are many stories about the increased number of cases, there are no stories covering how much testing capacity has increased since March.

The most effective kind of propaganda is by omission.
 
snakestretcher said:
Nonsense. Your rates of infection are through the roof. Just because people are being treated better does not imply that Covid-19 is going away any time soon.
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That's not what is implied. It will loose Pandemic status
 
snakestretcher said:
Nonsense. Your rates of infection are through the roof. Just because people are being treated better does not imply that Covid-19 is going away any time soon.
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The rates of infection have always been very high. Recall that in the beginning we had no reliable test kits. We did not know the infection rate, and the media preferred to talk about, incessantly, the death rate.

Now the supply end has caught up and many more people are being tested than before. Now it is apparent to anyone that the infection rate has always been high, and one of the side effects is that the herd immunity factor grows larger. Everybody has it, but few people die from it.
 
Thoreau72 said:
The second wave has resulted in large part from the large increases in testing ability.

It's funny that while there are many stories about the increased number of cases, there are no stories covering how much testing capacity has increased since March.

The most effective kind of propaganda is by omission.
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The science of controlling pandemics is largely about statistics and probabilities. What is the probability of someone who has been infected spreading the disease to someone else? How many people are likely to become infected when exposed to to an individual who is infected? How many people in the population are likely to become carriers and infect other people?

So yes, certainly testing is important on a scientific basis but it's also vital to track infections to control 'hot spots', localized areas where infection rates are exceptionally high. Determining the risk by geographic area allows local health departments and medical experts to focus their control efforts and treatment resources where they are most likely to be needed.

We're in the middle of a crisis and we have a long way to go. People haven't come to the sobering realization yet that everyone's lives have been impacted in some way, lives have changed and some permanently. There's no way to fight it, people can object all they want but it's not changing anything. Life as we knew it has changed for everyone for a very long time and people will have to modify their lives. If we do nothing but self-quarantine and wait for a vaccine, the damage to our economy will likely become so severe that it will be unrecoverable. On the other hand, as soon as we release the widespread quarantine, the infection rate and the resulting death rate will shoot up.

We also can no longer contain the disease to a specific geographical area. Thanks to the bungling and lack of decisive action from the Trump administration, that is no longer an option.
 
We are in the middle of a "crisis" created by MSM and government bureaucracies. The crisis exists only on TV and the front page of NYT and others.

Meanwhile, life goes on, mask or no mask. Many infections and very few deaths do not make a crisis.
 
I suppose that if one clicks their heels together and squeezes their eyes wide shut and repeats the mantra over and over again that one can bring oneself to believe in the fantasy that this pandemic emergency is overblown.

528K dead so far in 1/3rd of a year.
 
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I suppose that if one clicks their heels together and squeezes their eyes wide shut and repeats the mantra over and over again that one can bring oneself to believe in the fantasy that this pandemic emergency is overblown.

528K dead so far in 1/3rd of a year.
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No, keep those eyes wide open, and believe everything they say on TV. Trust "the authorities" more than your own powers of reason. They never lie.
 
VySky said:
According to the CDC.

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Coronavirus deaths in the country have nearly reached a level where the virus will cease to qualify as an epidemic under Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rules, the federal agency reported on Friday.

COVID-19 is close to losing its epidemic status in the U.S., according to the CDC | Just The News
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There goes Biden’s last talking point. “120 million more will die by election time if you don’t vote for me today!”
 
HumblePi said:
The welcome news comes as fear over a "second wave" of the virus has gripped the U.S., with some states experiencing fresh surges of COVID-19 along with increased hospitalizations.
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it's not a second wave it's simply a spike in the first wave
 
chuckiechan said:
There goes Biden’s last talking point. “120 million more will die by election time if you don’t vote for me today!”
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what a mindless, Fox News type post
 
noonereal said:
it's not a second wave it's simply a spike in the first wave
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I agree. That paragraph came directly from the 'Just the News' article posted by the OP


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While the number of cases are surging in certain areas, the death rates are not, that is very good news. We have also learned a lot more on how to treat this virus lessoning the severity of the symptoms. Read a couple days ago that the overwhelming majority that do end up in the hospital, their stay is 3-4 days not weeks.

While there is concern of ICU beds filling up, hospitals have put into place areas they can convert to COVID wards if needed. The overwhelming number of beds in use in ICU units at this time have nothing to do with COVID. Through COVID people are still having heart attacks, strokes, fighting the ravages of cancer and diabetes etc. and due to the lockdown many people had to put off elective surgeries and cancer treatments. During the lockdown hospitals across this country laid off a lot of healthcare workers because their offices were not allowed to see their patients.

While some states roll back re-opening, the people are fed up with it. They see massive protests daily to continue often laced with violence and then be told they are not permitted to go to beaches, or a place of worship. They can't enjoy a meal in a restaurant or go to the gym, only gather in groups of ten and social distance but by golly the protests are allowed to continue. Well people are done, well done, stick a fork in them. They have had enough of the double standards. That is why you are seeing over this weekend people defying such orders.
It is why this weekend after 80% of fireworks displays were cancelled, many people said to Hell with it and had their own celebrations where they let off their own fireworks. In my neighborhood never have I seen so many massive fireworks displays light up the night sky.

And on top of it all are damn tired of seeing their cities spray painted with graffiti, businesses demolished, statues being torn down, crime rates soaring, at the same time demeaning the police and the demands to defund them. They are sick and tired of the cancel culture. They have had enough.
 
VySky said:
According to the CDC 10 straight weeks of declining deaths. Thus the coming removal of epidemic status.
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Good grief.

It's not over. Not even close.

• The number of infections is spiking in numerous states, including two of the largest (Florida and Texas)

• Reporting of fatalities is, as your own source acknowledges, delayed. I.e. fatalities will almost certainly start to climb in the next few weeks.

• This is not just about fatalities, it's also about hospitalization rates -- which are rising. Hospitals are getting slammed, and as that continues to rise, hospitals will eventually be forced to triage because they won't be able to treat everyone. That affects mortality rates in general, not just COVID-19.

The reality is that nothing fundamental has changed. We still don't have a vaccine. We have almost no new treatments, just a few techniques and one drug (dexamethasone) that might reduce fatalities.

Stop deliberately spreading misinformation.
 
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