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Thread: Pennsylvania GOP has knowledge of members testing positive for COVID, does not disclose to Dem colleagues

 
“Pneumonia kills about 50,000 people each year in the U.S., according to the CDC.
This year, at least 89,555 deaths have been attributed nationwide to pneumonia between February and mid-May.
It tends to follow a typical flu season, coming on in December and peaking in January and February before declining in March to April.
But preliminary CDC data from this year show pneumonia deaths steadily climbed in March to peak in April, mirroring the trend line for deaths linked to the coronavirus outbreak.
Surrounding states are also seeing death counts several times greater than normal:
Indiana: 1,832 COVID-19 deaths; 2,149 pneumonia deaths (five-year average: 384)
Illinois: 4,856 COVID-19 deaths; 3,986 pneumonia deaths (five-year average: 782)
Tennessee: 336 COVID-19 deaths; 1,704 pneumonia deaths (five-year average: 611)
Ohio: 1,969 COVID-19 deaths; 2,327 pneumonia deaths (five-year average: 820)
Virginia: 1,208 COVID-19 deaths; 1,394 pneumonia deaths (five-year average: 451)
West Virginia: 72 COVID-19 deaths; 438 pneumonia deaths (five-year average: 117)”
 
“Pneumonia kills about 50,000 people each year in the U.S., according to the CDC.
This year, at least 89,555 deaths have been attributed nationwide to pneumonia between February and mid-May.
It tends to follow a typical flu season, coming on in December and peaking in January and February before declining in March to April.
But preliminary CDC data from this year show pneumonia deaths steadily climbed in March to peak in April, mirroring the trend line for deaths linked to the coronavirus outbreak.
Surrounding states are also seeing death counts several times greater than normal:
Indiana: 1,832 COVID-19 deaths; 2,149 pneumonia deaths (five-year average: 384)
Illinois: 4,856 COVID-19 deaths; 3,986 pneumonia deaths (five-year average: 782)
Tennessee: 336 COVID-19 deaths; 1,704 pneumonia deaths (five-year average: 611)
Ohio: 1,969 COVID-19 deaths; 2,327 pneumonia deaths (five-year average: 820)
Virginia: 1,208 COVID-19 deaths; 1,394 pneumonia deaths (five-year average: 451)
West Virginia: 72 COVID-19 deaths; 438 pneumonia deaths (five-year average: 117)”
Yeah! See! There's a huge, hidden pneumonia issue going on, but that's just getting swept under the rug by the Deep State, with no actions taken and no help offered, meanwhile they and the MSM insists on focussing on Covid which is totally not a problem. Scandalous!
 
It was a tweet purporting to show a 2x-4x increase for deaths labeled as "pneumonia" in 2020 for three of the reddist states (FL, GA, can't remember the other one).

--Patrick
Not surprised about Florida. I've been saying for a month and a half that the numbers in the hardest hit part of the state were obviously under-reported.

I was hoping the Financial Times would have excess data broken down by US state by now, but no such luck.
 
Sadness for what could have been if our president wasn't a raging egomaniac.

 

figmentPez

Staff member
New York Times: What Is the Real Coronavirus Death Toll in Each State?

"Through May 2, excess deaths in the parts of the United States with sufficient data were about 33 percent higher than the official coronavirus fatality count. If this pattern holds for the rest of the country, it would put the current death toll at more than 135,000 people."

12 states have death counts >10% above normal.
19 more states have significantly increased deaths.

Despite the fact that a lot of this data is still incomplete, and that the numbers can be effected by a number of other factors (raised by people avoiding going to the hospital for other ailments, lowered by people staying at home and not driving, etc.), there's some pretty strong evidence that COVID-19 is causing a lot of people to die, and that it's probably more than the official count, and almost certainly not less.
 
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That is rather expensive.

I work at a hospital and I can get a covid test at no cost by walking down the hall to a testing station.
 

Friday at midnight, the Supreme Court rejected a church’s challenge to California’s COVID-19 restrictions by a 5–4 vote, with Chief Justice John Roberts joining the liberals. In a pointed opinion, Roberts indicated that he will not join conservative judges’ escalating efforts to override public health measures in the name of religious freedom. Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s dissent, by contrast, falsely accused the state of religious discrimination in an extremely misleading opinion that omits the most important facts of the case. Roberts went out of his way to scold Kavanaugh’s dishonest vilification of the state.
 
Hey, if the Conservatives want to meet their maker so badly, there are other, more efficient ways of doing so that do not put innocent bystanders at risk.

--Patrick
 
Just third shift thoughts:

Whatever gains we may have made against COVID-19 were wiped out because of one asshole Minneapolis cop.
 
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