U.S. inches toward 1 million #deaths as daily death rate falls

[riversedge]

U.S. inches toward 1 million COVID deaths as daily death rate falls

Dylan Stableford·Senior Writer Fri, April 29, 2022, 2:29 PM

As the world marked the second anniversary of the coronavirus pandemic in March, the United States was on the brink of reaching 1 million COVID-19 deaths, with health experts projecting that the country would surpass that mark by the end of the month or early April.

Nearly two months later, the nation is still bracing for that grim milestone. But that it’s taken longer than expected is a sliver of sunlight in an otherwise dark reality.

According to Johns Hopkins University, there have been more than 81 million confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the U.S. to date, and more than 993,000 Americans have died of complications from the virus.

But the daily death rate has slowed considerably. On March 11 — the day many Americans recognize as the anniversary of the coronavirus pandemic — the seven-day average for deaths attributed to COVID-19 was 1,229, per Johns Hopkins. It has since fallen to about 300 deaths a day.


Daily hospitalizations have fallen too, from a pandemic high of more than 20,000 in mid-January to under 2,000 now.

“I believe we are at an inflection point,” Dr. Ashish Jha, the new White House coordinator of the administration’s COVID-19 response, said at a press briefing earlier this week. “On one hand, we know that BA.2, the subvariant of Omicron, has become dominant; cases are rising across the country. But hospitalizations are at the lowest level of the pandemic and deaths are continuing to fall.

“We're down to about 300 deaths a day — still too many, ..........................

He credited the nation’s vaccination program, in large part, for slowing the death toll. ...........................
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Columns representing victims of the coronavirus line the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on the eve of Joe Biden's inauguration, Jan. 19, 2021. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)


Columns representing victims of the coronavirus line the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool on the eve of Joe Biden's inauguration, Jan. 19, 2021. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

[Blues Heron]

1. Hospitalizations are at 1995 7 day avg. up from 1670 previous week - 17.1 percent increase

That’s straight from the CDC Tracker https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#new-hospital-admissions

Not sure why he isn’t acknowledging that- it definitely contradicts his statement about hospitalizations being the lowest of the pandemic. He makes it seem like they are going down when it’s the opposite- cases and hospitalizations are on the upswing.

Hospitalizations bottomed out end of March 1st week of April at around 1422/day 7day average

Now they are at 1995/day 7 day average. That is a 40 percent increase since the beginning of the month

CDC just reported 78,910 new cases bringing the current 7 day average to 56,166 a 123 percent increase from the beginning of the month when cases bottomed out at around 25,000 7 day avg.

[Blues Heron]

2. Latest numbers from CDC 78,910 new cases, 56,166 7 day avg. up 123 percent from 3/29

CDC just reported 78,910 new cases bringing the current 7 day average to 56,166 a 123 percent increase from the beginning of the month when cases bottomed out at around 25,000 7 day avg.

[elias7]

3. The true death count is probably about 50% higher - say around 1.5 million

Deaths above expected data tries to figure which excess deaths were due to covid vs other causes unable to get medical help.