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beachbumbob

(9,263 posts) Wed Dec 2, 2020, 12:26 PM Dec 2020

Today US will crossover 100,000 hospitilized for COVID and why the deaths will spiral

out of control not only for Covid but for all those who normally would be "saved" (heart attacks, strokes, flu) as NO ICU bed space will be available any where

https://covidtracking.com/data/charts/us-currently-hospitalized

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Today US will crossover 100,000 hospitilized for COVID and why the deaths will spiral (Original Post) beachbumbob Dec 2020 OP

2600 new deaths listed yesterday...will probably hit that number again today greenjar_01 Dec 2020 #1

Get thee to the greatest page for visibility n/t malaise Dec 2020 #2

I think it will take at least another week or two before the 7-day moving average goes above April's Klaralven Dec 2020 #3

greenjar_01

(6,477 posts)

1. 2600 new deaths listed yesterday...will probably hit that number again today

Reply to beachbumbob (Original post)

Wed Dec 2, 2020, 12:29 PM

Dec 2020

The scale of the unfolding tragedy is barely comprehensible.

malaise

(269,185 posts)

2. Get thee to the greatest page for visibility n/t

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Wed Dec 2, 2020, 12:31 PM

Dec 2020

Klaralven

(7,510 posts)

3. I think it will take at least another week or two before the 7-day moving average goes above April's

Reply to beachbumbob (Original post)

Wed Dec 2, 2020, 12:48 PM

Dec 2020

And recall that back in April, the 2200 deaths/day were in only about 20% of the population, while now Covid 19 is endemic throughout the US.

So the intensity in any given state is generally a lot less than it was back then. Nationwide, we'd have to get up to about 10,000 deaths per day to equal what the Northeast was experiencing then.

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