Comments by "wily wascal" (@wilywascal2024) on "Obama administration acting CDC director says 'we can't accept that as a society'" video.
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To protect our health care and front-line workers, it is critical to protect ourselves and others! Protecting those most vulnerable groups among us--like the elderly, homeless, prisoners, minorities, and migrants--is one of the best ways of protecting ourselves! It's a win-win situation, folks--even without a global pandemic, but now especially! Conversely, it is actually Trump and the GOP's fear-mongering, stigmatization, bigotry, xenophobia, racism, cruelty and lack of compassion which endangers Americans. Ignorance kills.
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05/06/20 -- 1,260,000 confirmed cases; 74,500 deaths.
05/05/20 -- 1,233,000 confirmed cases; 72,000 deaths.
05/04/20 -- 1,208,000 confirmed cases; 69,600 deaths. CDC projects cases increasing to 200,000 per day with deaths rising to 3,000 per day by June because of states, localities and people not following guidelines and reopening their economies too soon.
05/03/20 -- 1,184,000 confirmed cases; 68,300 deaths. Every 44 seconds, another American dies from COVID-19. Still no adequate testing. Still no rational national coordinated response to this deadly pandemic.
05/02/20 -- 1,158,000 confirmed cases; 67,000 deaths.
05/01/20 -- 1,129,000 confirmed cases; 65,500 deaths.
04/30/20 -- 1,094,000 confirmed cases; 63,600 deaths. The U.S. accounts for over a third of the world's cases, and over a quarter of COVID-19 deaths--despite possessing only 5% of the world's population. Yet--even now--we still lack the adequate testing capabilities that are critically needed to safely reopen the economy, and remain sorely lacking the necessary rational national leadership so vital to saving American lives and livelihoods.
04/29/20 -- 1,064,000 confirmed cases; 61,500 deaths. The U.S. now has as many COVID-19 deaths in just NINE WEEKS as there was for all TWELVE YEARS of the Vietnam War.
04/28/20 -- 1,034,000 confirmed cases; 59,000 deaths. Still no adequate testing. Still no rational national coordinated response to this deadly pandemic.
04/27/20 -- 1,009,000 confirmed cases; 56,500 deaths.
04/26/20 -- 985,000 confirmed cases; 55,400 deaths.
04/25/20 -- 958,000 confirmed cases; 54,000 deaths.
04/24/20 -- 927,000 confirmed cases; 52,400 deaths.
04/23/20 -- 890,000 confirmed cases; 50,400 deaths.
04/22/20 -- 853,000 confirmed cases; 47,800 deaths (+2,674*)
04/21/20 -- 825,000 confirmed cases; 45,100 deaths. Still no adequate testing. Still no rational national coordinated response to this deadly pandemic.
04/20/20 -- 788,000 confirmed cases; 43,200 deaths.
04/19/20 -- 760,000 confirmed cases; 41,700 deaths.
04/18/20 -- 735,000 confirmed cases; 39,900 deaths.
04/17/20 -- 702,000 confirmed cases; 37,000 deaths.
04/16/20 -- 671,000 confirmed cases; 33,100 deaths. Less COVID-19 testing performed this week than last, despite desperate need to ramp up volume to reopen economy.
04/15/20 -- 640,000 confirmed cases; 30,800 deaths. The United States recorded its first coronavirus fatality on Feb. 29. It took 38 days to reach 10,000 deaths and just nine more days to go from 10,000 fatalities to 30,000. An increase in fatalities over the last 48 hours was expected, but was also due to new CDC policy, starting on 04/14, to include probable COVID-19 deaths...finally.
04/14/20 -- 609,000 confirmed cases; 26,600 deaths (+2,364 - *New worst daily death toll)
04/13/20 -- 583,000 confirmed cases; 24,200 deaths
04/12/20 -- 558,000 confirmed cases; 22,100 deaths. Still no adequate testing. Still no rational national coordinated response to this deadly pandemic. NOTE: Large number of deaths undiagnosed in homes at 4-5 times normal rate are NOT being included in COVID-19 totals by state health departments. Consequently, the COVID-19 death toll is being kept artificially low in the U.S. With just 4.25% of the world's population, the U.S. has 30% of the COVID-19 infections and 20% of the COVID-19 deaths. So far, the U.S. has the very WORST response of ANY nation, something formerly inconceivable, and inexcusable that it could now be allowed to happen here. In the U.S., we have 1.5 million seniors in 15,000 nursing homes and assisted living facilities. Despite forming only 0.45% of the U.S. population, they make up almost 10% of deaths, primarily because our federal government is not doing enough to protect them. Reported that many hospitals are no longer accepting COVID-19 patients from nursing homes, preferring they die there, instead. Our seniors, who helped build, grow and make America great, are being sacrificed, solely to ignorance.
04/11/20 -- 530,000 confirmed cases; 20,500 deaths.
04/10/20 -- 502,000 confirmed cases; 18,800 deaths.
04/09/20 -- 466,000 confirmed cases; 16,700 deaths.
04/08/20 -- 432,000 confirmed cases; 15,900 deaths. Still no adequate testing. Still no rational national coordinated response to this deadly pandemic. NOTE: Large number of deaths undiagnosed in homes at 4-5 times normal rate are NOT being included in COVID-19 totals by state health departments. Consequently, the COVID-19 death toll is being kept artificially low in the U.S.
04/07/20 -- 400,000 confirmed cases; 13,000 deaths. Still no adequate testing. Still no rational national coordinated response to this deadly pandemic. Figures indicate a Covid-19 fatality rate for TESTED Americans at 3.25%.
04/06/20 -- 369,000 confirmed cases; 11,000 deaths.
04/05/20 -- 338,000 confirmed cases; 9,700 deaths.
04/04/20 -- 312,000 confirmed cases; 9,400 deaths.
04/03/20 -- 278,000 confirmed cases; 7,150 deaths.
04/02/20 -- 246,000 confirmed cases; 6,050 deaths. Still no adequate testing. Still no rational national coordinated response to this deadly pandemic.
04/01/20 -- 217,000 confirmed cases; 5,150 deaths.
03/31/20 -- 190,000 confirmed cases; 4,200 deaths.
03/30/20 -- 165,000 confirmed cases; 3,250 deaths.
03/29/20 -- 143,000 confirmed cases; 2,450 deaths. Still no adequate testing.
(Update 5: Friday, 03/27/20, confirmed U.S. cases 105,000--which is 50% over NIH high-end estimate; deaths 1,700 by end of day. The perspective for cases is significantly skewed low and thus highly misleading, however, as just 0.17% of U.S. population has been tested to date.)
"As many as 70,000 Americans could be confirmed as infected with coronavirus by the end of next week, marking a “pretty dramatic” increase in the number of confirmed cases," the director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Francis Collins, told his employees in an agency-wide conference call on 03/20/20.
Except 03/21/20 saw a 33% jump in U.S. cases, from 18,000 to over 24,000. If continuing at 33% every 24 hours, the number of confirmed cases is trending much higher than just 70,000 by 03/27/20. Suspect confirmed cases will be double that. Bear in mind, states hardest hit are not testing many people, saving the tests for those most in need. So the actual number of infected Americans is going to be far higher than just what limited testing of the population has so far confirmed. Don't think this fact is being given enough attention. More important than the number of cases confirmed is the number contracting the disease and not getting tested, spreading the disease, in many cases unknowingly. Hospital projections are for about 100 MILLION Americans to become infected, with about 500,000 dead from covid-19.
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