Steady state covid Currently 500 deaths a day

Crushed

Covid has become endemic in the USA  the current death toll is about 500 per day 
for a comparison there are about 67 homicides per day in the USA 

Alzheimer's patients remain at very high risk 

 

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm

  

 

Mint

What if each and every day a plane with 500 people dropped out of sky in US killing all on board?

elainechem

For perspective, cancer.org says there are approximately 1,670 cancer deaths per day in the U.S. In 3-5 years, my daughter will probably be added to that count.

Quilting brings calm

Cancer is a terrible disease.  I’m So sorry about your daughter.      We need to figure out ways to prevent it and treat it even more than  we have. However it’s not contagious and cannot be passed from person to person. Dementia is also a terrible disease and everything I just said about cancer can be said  about it. 

Covid is transmitted from people to people as is the flu.  Although we have  reduced the daily death rate for Covid so that it is comparable to the flu- the flu is only 3 months or so a year.  Covid is year round.  So the covid death rate per year is still at least 4 times higher than the flu. In addition, I’ve never heard of ‘ long flu’, and we definitely have ‘ long covid’ which negatively impacts many including our loved ones with dementia. 

We still have a long way to go. 

Crushed

elainechem wrote:

For perspective, cancer.org says there are approximately 1,670 cancer deaths per day in the U.S. In 3-5 years, my daughter will probably be added to that count.

For perspective we have had cancer for thousands of years
This one is new

 
  

elainechem

Crushed wrote:

For perspective we have had cancer for thousands of years
This one is new

 
  

Okay, I'll play along. HIV/AIDS is also a relatively new virus. According to the CDC, approximately 5,115 people will die of that this year. They estimate that 3,943 people will die from hepatitis (all forms), 5,943 will die from influenza, and 53,544 will die from flu/pneumonia. 

Dead is dead. Why all the hysteria about SARS-COV-2  these days? It has mutated into a far less deadly strain. Chances are, it will continue to mutate because that's what viruses do. 

My husband died of Alzheimer's disease in February of 2020 - just weeks before the pandemic started. And since then, it's been like, "Oh, he died of Alzheimer's? That's so sad. But wasn't he lucky that he didn't have COVID-19?" No, he wasn't lucky. I would have given anything if his mind had been intact all those years and he would have died after a comparatively short illness from COVID-19. You know?

storycrafter

Thanks, Crushed. I appreciate your updates. I cannot find much info any more, and they've stopped giving local updates. One of my siblings told me... in her area (a thousand miles from me) the figures were as high as they ever were and she is masking herself again when going out and about.

A couple weeks ago it seemed like everybody we knew and heard about was getting very ill, some needing hospitalization, most at least one trip or two to ER. That was only my direct experience, not reported. I wish they'd continue some coverage of the stats on the general news board. (I could probably find it if I go hunting and digging, but I don't have time and energy for it.)

Somehow my husband and I have avoided illness for the past 2.5 years. <knock on wood>  I don't know how long this fortunate streak will continue.

Mint

Storycrafter there is a web site Covidactnow.org, sorry I don’t know how to make a link.  Enter your zip code and it will bring up your state risk and your community risk. Use this to help me be aware and act accordingly.

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Crushed

elainechem wrote:

Crushed wrote:

 

For perspective we have had cancer for thousands of years
This one is new

 if you provided citations it makes discussion more productive
 

CDC estimates* that, from October 1, 2021 through June 11, 2022, there have been:

5,000 – 14,000
flu deaths  

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm

I am sorry about your husband but this is a CONTAGIOUS  respiratory disease
 
  Among the 387,112 deaths due to pneumonia, influenza, or COVID-19 reported during 2021–22, a total of 277,350 (71.6%) death certificates listed COVID-19 as an underlying or contributing cause of death, and 2,493 (0.6%) listed influenza, indicating that pneumonia, influenza, or COVID-19–associated mortality during 2021–22 was due primarily to COVID-19 and not influenza.

  https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/71/wr/mm7129a1.htm

That is why its important , failure to take precautions kills a lot of people
 

  

Okay, I'll play along. HIV/AIDS is also a relatively new virus. According to the CDC, approximately 5,115 people will die of that this year. They estimate that 3,943 people will die from hepatitis (all forms), 5,943 will die from influenza, and 53,544 will die from flu/pneumonia. 

Dead is dead. Why all the hysteria about SARS-COV-2  these days? It has mutated into a far less deadly strain. Chances are, it will continue to mutate because that's what viruses do. 

My husband died of Alzheimer's disease in February of 2020 - just weeks before the pandemic started. And since then, it's been like, "Oh, he died of Alzheimer's? That's so sad. But wasn't he lucky that he didn't have COVID-19?" No, he wasn't lucky. I would have given anything if his mind had been intact all those years and he would have died after a comparatively short illness from COVID-19. You know?

Michael Ellenbogen

II am now starting to wonder  on how many more will die from it because they were stupid  like I yo get the shots. I am now starting to hear that. And for the record many more with dementia  the each day.

ThisLife

Thanks, Sayra for the website