Another wave of death
Source: Axios
Why it matters: Preventing death is the ultimate goal, and thousands of Americans continue to die from this coronavirus every day even though vaccines have been available to the public for roughly a year.
By the numbers: More than 2,000 people are dying from COVID every day right now, and that number has been rising for the past week, according to the latest seven-day rolling averages.
Roughly three out of four deaths are people who are 65 or older, according to the CDC.
Read more: https://www.axios.com/covid-omicron-wave-of-death-0e0e202b-5e45-4b51-a29c-1a28cd56d83c.html
PJMcK
(21,988 posts)With such a high death rate, I wonder if our country's population is diminishing slightly or if births are keeping up with the death rate.
As I typed the question, I realized I could do any easy search. Here's what I found:
https://carsey.unh.edu/publication/snapshot/2020-deaths-exceeded-births-in-record-number-of-states
Fascinating.
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)probably fewer new marriages too.
DENVERPOPS
(8,785 posts)have said: Why would I want to bring an innocent child into this mess.....Covid and Political.
I thought that was interesting........Sadly, no one for certain has clue one of what is coming our way in the years and decades ahead.
I don't think our futures have ever been anywhere near this un-stable for the past few centuries, with the exception of maybe the Civil War.
I often ask: Don't the Republican Politicians and Republican Party members have children and grandchildren ?????????????
wishstar
(5,267 posts)This is Buncombe Co. NC where in history of record keeping, births have always outpaced deaths until Covid
IronLionZion
(45,380 posts)our numbers are moving in the correct direction. The opposite is happening in some other regions of the US.
NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Or is it mostly because of people's age, frailty and other underlying conditions?
bullimiami
(13,073 posts)BlueWavePsych
(2,635 posts)CountAllVotes
(20,863 posts)milestogo
(16,829 posts)because they don't give a crap about the sick, the disabled, and the elderly.
bronxiteforever
(9,287 posts)Unvaccinated people are 100 times more likely to die from COVID than people who have gotten three doses of an mRNA vaccine.
Firestorm49
(4,028 posts)Silly me, but as things have gone so far, I wouldnt doubt another sharp rise in cases in the next few weeks.
Dont get me wrong, I enjoy football, but every decision that my wife and I make , and we have run the entire course without coming down with Covid 🙏 is based on how safe we feel to be out. I want the return to a normal (?) life.
70sEraVet
(3,472 posts)No sports stadiums, large concerts, county fairs, 'rallies', ect. We have always shied away from large crowds. It doesn't mean that we're never around people, but we do seem to value our personal space (and I will go into panic mode if there's too many people and too much noise, like a busy indoor mall).
Ace Rothstein
(3,139 posts)Before that baseball stadiums were packed over the summer months. They aren't suddenly going to cause a spike 5 months later.
TheRickles
(2,042 posts)So while Covid "cases" may be rising, there doesn't seem to be an associated rise in all-cause mortality. The CDC site also allows you to do a breakdown by state, by age range, gender, etc.
BlueWavePsych
(2,635 posts)The little red crosses in chart above are excess deaths.
TheRickles
(2,042 posts)Not the omicron surge we would expect based on the huge number of cases being reported in the media, and much smaller than the surges in ACM from alpha, delta and etc. Instead, it looks like less than 5% over expected deaths from all causes at omicron's peak on Dec. 11. There's usually a 2-week lag before all the data is reported and shows up in this graph, so it may look different in a few more weeks, but I doubt it. We shall see.
FBaggins
(26,714 posts)Those last four weeks or so on the graph frequently look as though they are dipping back to the "normal" range.
Final figures can take as much as eight weeks.
TheRickles
(2,042 posts)Marthe48
(16,891 posts)Such as Ebola of the lungs. Something to induce the idiots to get a mask on and get vaccinated and boosted.
roamer65
(36,744 posts)Thats what I call the unvaxxed deaths.