Low End Derrick
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B-b-but my freedumbs.
Breaking: U.S. Covid-19 Deaths in 2021 Surpass 2020
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Cowboyz89
#WeDemBoyz Season Has Returned
Covid deniers will never admit they were wrong.
Its become part of their identity.
Its become part of their identity.
with that sort of reasoning you could justify or downplay any amount of deaths that doesn't exceed the number of abortions.
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Kenny West
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It's just an extension of the red vs blue bullshyt culture wars. Such a dumb ass hill to die on (literally), nikkas really throwing their life away to "own the libs". Why are people here so fukking retarded bruh
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A nurse in Grants Pass, Ore., waited in September for the next Covid-19 case to be brought into the ICU. NATHAN HOWARD/GETTY IMAGE
U.S. Covid-19 Deaths in 2021 Surpass 2020
Pandemic continues to exact huge toll despite vaccines as Delta variant spreads
By
Jon Kamp ,
Robbie Whelan and
Anthony DeBarros
Nov. 20, 2021 11:39 am ET
The number of U.S. Covid-19 deaths recorded in 2021 has surpassed the toll in 2020, according to federal data and Johns Hopkins University, demonstrating the virus’s persistent menace.
The total number of reported deaths linked to the disease topped 770,780 on Saturday, Johns Hopkins data show. This puts the pandemic-long total at more than twice the 385,343 Covid-19 deaths recorded last year, according to the most recent death certificate data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The spread of the highly contagious Delta variant and low vaccination rates in some communities were important factors, infectious-disease experts said. The milestone comes as Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations move higher again in places such as New England and the upper Midwest, with the seven-day average for new cases recently closer to 90,000 a day after it neared 70,000 last month.
The 2021 death toll caught some doctors by surprise. They had expected vaccinations and precautionary measures like social distancing and scaled-down public events to curb the spread of infections and minimize severe cases. But lower-than-expected immunization rates as well as fatigue with precautionary measures like masks allowed the highly contagious Delta variant to spread, largely among the unvaccinated, epidemiologists say.
“Heading into this year, we knew what we needed to do, but it was a failure of getting it done,” said Abraar Karan, an infectious-diseases doctor at Stanford University.
A doctor checked on a Covid-19 patient in Tarzana, Calif., in September. Experts blame the continued spread of Covid on the Delta variant and low vaccination rates in some communities.
PHOTO: APU GOMES/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
Among missteps, Dr. Karan said, public-health officials failed to effectively communicate that the purpose of vaccines is to protect against severe cases of Covid-19 rather than to prevent the spread of infection entirely, which may have led some to doubt the effectiveness of the shots. Authorities also failed to use testing to effectively prevent super-spreader events, Dr. Karan said.
Joey Rodriguez, a high school soccer coach in Arlington, Texas, died from Covid-19 complications in October. The 44-year-old father of three was fully vaccinated but had a rare immune-system condition that made him more vulnerable to infections.
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He fell ill in August with what seemed like a sinus infection, his wife, Lena Rodriguez, said. When he died after weeks of intubation, some of his friends who had harbored doubts about the severity of the pandemic and the importance of vaccines changed their minds about the risks of Covid-19 and began to take a more cautious approach to the disease, she said.
“It definitely opened a lot of eyes that this pandemic is very real,” Ms. Rodriguez said.
The Journal calculated when the number of known Covid-19 deaths in 2021 surpassed 2020’s figure by using Johns Hopkins and CDC data. The Johns Hopkins numbers reflect a near-real-time count from states, but can lag behind when deaths actually occurred. CDC death-certificate data don’t track the changing pandemic as quickly, but do reflect the actual day of death.
The CDC’s count for 2020 may grow with further revisions. These records are also close to showing more deaths in 2021.
Comparing the two pandemic years is imperfect because the first coronavirus-related deaths in the U.S. weren’t recorded until February 2020, while 2021 began in the grips of a wintertime surge. During just one week in January, the U.S. recorded a peak of nearly 26,000 Covid-19 deaths, CDC data show.
A nurse in Grants Pass, Ore., waited in September for the next Covid-19 case to be brought into the ICU. NATHAN HOWARD/GETTY IMAGE
U.S. Covid-19 Deaths in 2021 Surpass 2020
Pandemic continues to exact huge toll despite vaccines as Delta variant spreads
By
Jon Kamp ,
Robbie Whelan and
Anthony DeBarros
Nov. 20, 2021 11:39 am ET
The number of U.S. Covid-19 deaths recorded in 2021 has surpassed the toll in 2020, according to federal data and Johns Hopkins University, demonstrating the virus’s persistent menace.
The total number of reported deaths linked to the disease topped 770,780 on Saturday, Johns Hopkins data show. This puts the pandemic-long total at more than twice the 385,343 Covid-19 deaths recorded last year, according to the most recent death certificate data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The spread of the highly contagious Delta variant and low vaccination rates in some communities were important factors, infectious-disease experts said. The milestone comes as Covid-19 cases and hospitalizations move higher again in places such as New England and the upper Midwest, with the seven-day average for new cases recently closer to 90,000 a day after it neared 70,000 last month.
The 2021 death toll caught some doctors by surprise. They had expected vaccinations and precautionary measures like social distancing and scaled-down public events to curb the spread of infections and minimize severe cases. But lower-than-expected immunization rates as well as fatigue with precautionary measures like masks allowed the highly contagious Delta variant to spread, largely among the unvaccinated, epidemiologists say.
“Heading into this year, we knew what we needed to do, but it was a failure of getting it done,” said Abraar Karan, an infectious-diseases doctor at Stanford University.
A doctor checked on a Covid-19 patient in Tarzana, Calif., in September. Experts blame the continued spread of Covid on the Delta variant and low vaccination rates in some communities.
PHOTO: APU GOMES/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
Among missteps, Dr. Karan said, public-health officials failed to effectively communicate that the purpose of vaccines is to protect against severe cases of Covid-19 rather than to prevent the spread of infection entirely, which may have led some to doubt the effectiveness of the shots. Authorities also failed to use testing to effectively prevent super-spreader events, Dr. Karan said.
Joey Rodriguez, a high school soccer coach in Arlington, Texas, died from Covid-19 complications in October. The 44-year-old father of three was fully vaccinated but had a rare immune-system condition that made him more vulnerable to infections.
SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS
How have you handled the human cost of the pandemic? Join the conversation below.
He fell ill in August with what seemed like a sinus infection, his wife, Lena Rodriguez, said. When he died after weeks of intubation, some of his friends who had harbored doubts about the severity of the pandemic and the importance of vaccines changed their minds about the risks of Covid-19 and began to take a more cautious approach to the disease, she said.
“It definitely opened a lot of eyes that this pandemic is very real,” Ms. Rodriguez said.
The Journal calculated when the number of known Covid-19 deaths in 2021 surpassed 2020’s figure by using Johns Hopkins and CDC data. The Johns Hopkins numbers reflect a near-real-time count from states, but can lag behind when deaths actually occurred. CDC death-certificate data don’t track the changing pandemic as quickly, but do reflect the actual day of death.
The CDC’s count for 2020 may grow with further revisions. These records are also close to showing more deaths in 2021.
Comparing the two pandemic years is imperfect because the first coronavirus-related deaths in the U.S. weren’t recorded until February 2020, while 2021 began in the grips of a wintertime surge. During just one week in January, the U.S. recorded a peak of nearly 26,000 Covid-19 deaths, CDC data show.
Cars waited to enter a Covid-19 testing site in Omaha, Neb., earlier this month.
PHOTO: DAN BROUILLETTE/BLOOMBERG NEWS
CDC data also indicate there was a higher undercount of Covid-19 deaths in 2020, when the disease was newer and a scarcity of tests made confirming some infections difficult. A Wall Street Journal analysis of CDC data shows about 54% of roughly 875,000 excess deaths the agency attributes to the pandemic came last year.
“Early in the pandemic we would have been missing more,” said Robert Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch at the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics.
This excess also reflects collateral pandemic damage, from surging overdose deaths to other medical problems as people avoided hospitals.
Another major difference between the years: Vaccines were in development in 2020, and in arms in 2021. About 59% of the U.S. population is fully vaccinated, according to the CDC, and some 17% have received booster shots. Studies indicate the vaccines are highly effective at preventing severe disease, though they are slightly less effective against Delta, and authorities are urging all adults to get booster shots to bolster waning immunity.
“The vaccine is not a panacea,” said Ana Bento, an epidemiologist at Indiana University-Bloomington. Dr. Bento was the co-author of an August study in the journal Health Affairs that argued that nearly 140,000 U.S. Covid-19 deaths between the beginning of 2021 and the end of May could have been prevented by vaccinating a larger portion of the population.
Burlington, Vt., this past summer. Vermont has the most fully vaccinated population in the U.S., at 72%.
PHOTO: ED JONES/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES
After heavily affecting coastal states last year, the virus hit hard in the Deep South this year, often spreading quickly through populations with low vaccine uptake, according to health officials.
States hit hard early on in the Northeast had some of the highest Covid-19 death rates per 100,000 residents in 2020, led by New Jersey, CDC data show. New York ranked fourth, behind the Dakotas. Southern states—Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Florida—have had the highest rates this year.
Vermont has the lowest Covid-19 death rate per 100,000 people since the pandemic began, although the state is in an ongoing surge. Vermont also has the nation’s most fully vaccinated population, at 72%. Mississippi, closer to the bottom of the list with about 47% fully vaccinated, has the nation’s highest death rate since the pandemic began.
“What we’ve been through was not inevitable, and where we go from here is not inevitable,” said Thomas Dobbs, Mississippi’s state health officer, during a recent roundtable discussion of Covid-19 hosted by state officials and streamed on Facebook.
Deaths remain concentrated in older people, CDC data show, but younger people make up a higher portion of the total now because older people including nursing-home residents are among the most widely vaccinated. While 81% of Covid-19 deaths hit people ages 65 and up last year, that group represents about 69% of this year’s deaths.
Deaths among younger people are rarer, but the 20,563 deaths among people under 45 this year are more than double the deaths in this group last year.
“There are plenty of what we call the young invincibles who just didn’t get around to getting a vaccine,” said Olveen Carrasquillo, chief of the internal medicine division at the University of Miami’s Miller School of Medicine, “and a lot of meetings with family where they say, ‘Oh he’s so stubborn, we told him to get vaccinated, but he wouldn’t.’”
A public art installation in September near the Washington Monument in D.C. commemorated Americans who have died from Covid-19.
Such as?with that sort of reasoning you could justify or downplay any amount of deaths that doesn't exceed the number abortions.
. Please put more bullets in my hand.Women voluntarily murdering babies and we're talking about locking down the world for a virus.
Neo. The Only. The One.
THE ONE
Bah pay wall.
Another variant like Delta and I would say it's over
I've met a few folks who had Covid and going up a flight of stairs is agonizing for them
I know ppl who can't even stand up in the shower. Literally have to put a chair in the shower, man. This stuff is crucial.
Neo. The Only. The One.
THE ONE
This is exactly what I’ve been saying. The fake “outrage” is strange.Y’all fully vaccinated mask wearing scary ass dudes kill me. Not only do you want everyone to get vaccinated and wear masks but you also want everyone to stay inside so you don’t feel bad about not going outside
I’m fully vaxed and I wear a mask but at no point do I feel it’s anyone else’s obligation to take a shot for me. I’m also not concerned with anyone getting Covid because at this point everyone knows what this is and has made a choice.
It’s time for us to all live by our decisions and move on. Even if the government stops pushing the mask you are within your right to wear it.
And if your fully vaccinated ass is scared to go outside then stay your asses home. That’s your right. You can even wear your mask in your sleep if you choose. No one can stop you
Captain Crunch
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U.S. Covid-19 Deaths in 2021 Surpass 2020
Lockdowns don't do shyt, Australia has had one of the strongest lockdowns in the world, yet they're still dealing w/ covid. Lastly, covid spreads so easily that there's a good chance that most will get it like the flu or the common cold.
Biden's former covid advisor shares my sentiment.
Given that covid is so contagious, it's best to prepare your body in getting it. That preparation comes from getting vaccinated(especially if you're immunocompromised) or boosting your immune system if you're a relatively healthy young adult(vitamin d, zinc, etc).
This fear monger shyt is stupid, there's hardly anything you can do to prevent yourself from getting covid. So it's best to prepare yourself to get it and move on w/ your life.
Pull Up the Roots
Talking? During horse head bookends?
Tucker Carlson took over this account.Such as?
Women voluntarily murdering babies and we're talking about locking down the world for a virus.
There is no need for a lockdown with vaccines available. Plus covid has a very low death rate.
U.S. Covid-19 Deaths in 2021 Surpass 2020