Nine Weeks to Coronavirus Chaos in the US? (UPDATE: 28.7 M cases -- 516 K dead - Week 9 Recap: p. 53)

U.S. Confirmed

13,721,304

Per JOHNS HOPKINS

Case fatality rate now 2.00% per infection2020.com

STILL A NOTHINGBURGER>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>​>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Yes, it's had no effect at all on American society.


Please pass me whatever you are smoking.

U.S. Confirmed

13,881,620

U.S. Deaths

272,820

Per JOHNS HOPKINS

180,083 new cases today per JOHNS HOPKINS

U.S. Confirmed

13,993,296

Per JOHNS HOPKINS

200,070 new cases today per Johns Hopkins

The one bit of good news:


Case Mortality Rate now under 2 percent in the US


1.98% per infection2020.com

NINE MONTH RECAP


So, I meant to post this yesterday evening.



I started this thread on the evening of Mar.2


There were at that time 100 cases and six dead in the US.


That is a case mortality rate of six percent.


Thankfully, that has come way down.

Increasingly, we know how to treat COVID-19 so that very few people die.


After nine weeks, we had reached the peak of the first wave with:

1,180,332 cases and 68,920 dead


The case mortality rate was still very high.



Nine months later, cases have ballooned.


There are now almost fourteen million.


HOWEVER, the case mortality rate is now below two percent and falling.


This has to do with lessons learned about putting people on ventilators unnecessarily or before they need to be on them AND the application of new treatments perhaps, such as the Regeneron antibodies.


I had actually expected the virus to spread more quickly perhaps in March and could not have foreseen the fantastic drop in the death rate, so...in my opinion...COVID-19 is not nearly as bad as I thought it might have been last winter.



In comparison, 675,000 people died from Spanish Flu between March 1918 and April 1919 in the US at a time when the population was only one hundred million. It is now 330,000,000.

So, so far, this is not nearly as bad as the Spanish Flu was.


Thank God for small favors.

;)

U.S. Confirmed

14,160,405

U.S. Deaths

276,513

Per JOHNS HOPKINS