2,861 deaths from the virus have already been reported in the last 28 days.
This past week, 1.6% of all deaths in the United States were from covid.
*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.
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.
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.
Bird Flu is coming - Trump is the president of pandemics, and whose betting he will handle this one any better than covid?
More than likely he’ll be even fucking WORSE since there isn’t even a Fauci around this time. And he’s surrounded himself with hatchet men looking to Project 2025 the whole place into oblivion.
Also, bird flu is likely to be even deadlier.
I’m betting that at some point he will ban killing potentially infected chicken populations because he wants to keep egg prices down.
I’ll take that bet. Republicans have already stopped looking at or caring about egg prices.
“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.
“Covid 2: We don’t know what to do”
If only we had practice on what to do.
Almost as many flu deaths in the same month.
Yeah people don’t get their flu shots either.
