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The great news is that if we keep trending this way, we could potentially be under 10k cases/day in September which would be huge! The increase In Mask usage is working
Thats insane if true.There is certainly a lot of good news to report on COVID-19, especially locally as numbers are continuing to trend down. One interesting fact that article fails to point out in that data it uses to illustrate pneumonia and COVID19 deaths is that the COVID-19 death count, just like positive cases, is significantly understated.
The average number of deaths from pneumonia in the U.S. each year is about 50,000. The chart in the article does not point out the large volume of pneumonia deaths that are in excess of our norms and which were not counted in the COVID19 death count. The chart below uses the same data to illustrate just how many pneumonia deaths were likely attributable to COVID19 but not counted as a COVID19 death due to lack of test. Many of these occured when testing was at its lowest.
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As the chart above illustrates, there have been 159,990 pneumonia deaths year to date. The annual average is 50,000. Adjusted for 7.5 months that correlates to 31,250 deaths at this point in a normal year. This means we are trending 129,740 pneumonia deaths in excess of our normal totals. As you can see only 67,390 of those 129,730 excess pneumonia deaths are also counted as a COVID-19 death. That means it is very likely the additional 61,350 deaths from pneumonia were likely undiagnosed COVID deaths but never counted due to lack of a test to confirm.