The COVID-19 Thread

[Lyle Lanley III]

85,000 Texans have now died from Covid.

[Lyle Lanley III]

Hoping we'll start to see the kind of precipitous drop in that metric that we've seen over the past few weeks in the others.

[NFFrog]

Starting to fall below 2K/day so might not get to 60K next month. Call it "just" 40K to 55K dead, or so.

[Lyle Lanley III]

60,000 Americans have now died from Covid just in February - making it the 5th month out of the last 15 in which we've passed that mark.

[NFFrog]

Deaths are down, but still running at ~2000/day nationally. We'll get to a million soon, baby! Job well done.

[Lyle Lanley III]

A couple of grim milestones:

• The American Covid death count has passed 963,000. This would make that population the 11th largest city in the country - just ahead of Austin.
• 50,000 Americans have now died from Covid just in February - making it the 7th month out of the last 23 in which we've passed that mark.

...and some promising trends:

• Nationwide, new cases are now down 90% from their peak, and the 7-day average is now lower than it's been since November 30th.
• In Texas, new cases are now down 89% from their peak, and the 7-day average is now lower than it's been since December 21st.
• Hospitalizations in Texas are now down 63% from their peak and are now lower than they've been since December 29th.

[SFAFrog]

MF just got her second dose at church.

[Lyle Lanley III]

The U.S. has now surpassed 80,000,000 confirmed Covid cases.

I remember being told that 15 would be the high water mark.

[Duquesne Frog]

Once again, the greatest advocates for white supremacy are ironically the best evidence that it doesn't exist ...

[frogtwang]

What an Eh-Hole.

[Lyle Lanley III]

I liked Will Sasso a lot more when he was on Mad TV.

[Boston Frog]

Oh, wow, so it wasn't about the vax after all. Huh. Surprising ...

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[NFFrog]

Canada just denied Mike Lindell and a truckload of bible-themed pillows or some such entry to "support the truckers". No vax record/no test.

Proper thing.

[Lyle Lanley III]

Another day, another couple of grim milestones:

• The American Covid death count has passed 950,000. This would make that population the 12th largest city in the country - just ahead of Jacksonville.
• 40,000 Americans have now died from Covid just in February - making it the 10th month out of the last 23 in which we've passed that mark.

[NFFrog]

No worse than the flu, we were told by some.

Anyway, we should get to a million easily. Thankfully, the death rate on this wave has finally turn the corner nationally.