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No, daily deaths have not been cut in half. I know that you know better than to look at day-to-day numbers because death reports are always lower on Sundays and Mondays than on other days of the week, as I’ve already pointed out to you before. It’s also quite obvious just from looking at the chart.

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Folks, please wear a ■■■■■■■ mask!

https://twitter.com/thedailybeast/status/1288844762775248896?s=21

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Fine as in 1,000 dead in week fine.

That’s not fine. That’s terrible.

I guess we will have to agree to disagree on whether 1,000 deaths a week is fine or not.

Allan

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https://hermancain.com/heartbroken-world-poorer-herman-cain-gone-lord/amp/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=thenewvoice&utm_content=2020-07-30&__twitter_impression=true

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when someone says we are doing fine RE covid i know that they are out of touch with reality and i can safely ignore them

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More than that in Texas Allan. Just yesterday alone, in one single day, they had 313 deaths.

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Yesterday alone they had 313 deaths. I’m not sure where the “cut-in-half” nonsense came from. But it is not from any actual, factual data.

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It’s been a remarkable consistent performance on the stock market this year when you look only at the weekends.

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:rofl:

Nice.

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One point about why Texas, especially large cities and in the Valley, may be especially hard hit.

Covid-19 is known to hit blacks and Hispanics especially hard. This is general throughout the country.

“Mortality rates are substantially higher among African American/black individuals (73 per 100 000) compared with Latino (36 per 100 000) and white (22 per 100 000) residents.3 New York City (as of May 7, 2020) reported greater age-adjusted COVID-19 mortality among Latino persons (187 per 100 000) and African American individuals (184 per 100 000), compared with white (93 per 100 000) residents.4”

Why would that make the probability that Texas would have a higher than average death rate?

State Percent of population that is non-Hispanic White
Pennsylvania 76%
Ohio 79%
Texas 42%

And what is the state with the total highest cumulative total death rate so far?
NY 55%

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We’re not doing “fine” and they still died, but a small sliver of better news.

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Your deaths are increasing, which is expected as they are a lagging indicator. Cases are going down, although somewhat plateaued the last couple of days. I am going to Dallas for work in a couple weeks so I’ve been keeping an eye on the numbers. Thanks Texans for bringing the new case count down.

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I wouldn’t even call it down. Probably within the margin of error.

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We flattened the curve in April.

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Daily deaths had been cut by more than half when I posted that.

We’ve had an upward spike since and out of a population of 30 million 300 deaths is not the least bit alarming.

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This is probably the best news - despite the spikes in cases there is no concurrent spike in deaths.

ETA i meant no death Rate spike

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How exactly is that “The best news”?

The best news is that our system held up just fine during the spike.

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Yes and the system managed to keep the death rate low which is what i am referencing.

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Then you worded it extremely poorly.

despite the spikes in cases there is concurrent spike in deaths.

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Oh crap you are right i meant no spikes. I’ll edit