More Covid Halloween decorations:
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ā Cases peaked around Sept. 4, when the U.S. had 164,000 new infections in an average day, adding up to about 6.3 million coronavirus cases from the apparent start of the wave around July 1. In the last month, the average has fallen 34.7%, to about 107,000 new infections per day, according to a USA TODAY analysis of Johns Hopkins University data.
Hospitalizations and the number of beds occupied by people who likely have COVID are down as well, by 26.9% and 25.3% respectively, compared to four weeks ago, data from the Department of Health and Human Services shows.
Deaths, which typically trail infections by about four weeks, have decreased by 11.7% since the Sept. 22 peak, but not before more than 77,000 Americans lost their lives to COVID-19 between that date and July 1. Even at the slower pace, some 1,812 Americans are dying of the disease in a typical day.ā
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Helsingin Sanomat reports that intensive care units are coming under increasing strain because of unvaccinated Covid patients.
Finland has dropped a lot of the restrictions it had in place to hold down Covid cases, but the pandemic continues, even if those who are vaccinated are now much less likely to be offered a PCR test under Finlandās new testing strategy.
Case numbers are increasing and if people are unvaccinated, the illness can be quite serious indeed.
Tero Varpula, Chief Physician in Intensive Care at Espooās Jorvi hospital, says that his unit is starting to feel the strain.
He says that the few ICU patients with coronavirus who have had two doses of a Covid vaccine have other serious medical issues ā they could be cancer patients or organ transplant recipients.
Varpula urges people to get vaccinated to keep them out of hospital even if they do get Covid, saying that it is now more difficult to transfer ICU patients to other units across the country because infections are rising everywhere.
If this situation continues, it may be difficult to provide normal ICU space for accidents, post-operative care and other everyday aspects of hospital operations.
As of Monday, some 74 percent of the population aged 12 or over had received two doses of an approved Covid vaccine.
Meanwhile HS also carries a letter from Olli Ruuskanen, an emeritus professor of infectious diseases, who says that continual use of antibacterial gel could do more harm than good.
Ruuskanen says the gels kill good bacteria as well as bad, and could well be a waste of time. Thatās because Covid spreads primarily through aerosols, with much less evidence of transmission on surfaces.
Ruuskanen says, therefore, that face masks and social distancing are the best ways to prevent the spread of Covid.
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i am curious about this, and i guess the general talk of infections as waves.
at the very start, everyone was talking about some sort of singular curve - everything from exponential if you were a pessimist to weird bell curves for those trying to mislead people. and neither is how itās actually played out
i wonder is it really just burning through all the infectible people? or are even the unvaccinated changing their behavior enough to slow it down?
iād imagine thanksgiving and christmas will bring it roaring back regardless, but then i wouldnāt have thought itād be ebbing now
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ā¦the topic is very quiet todayā¦ makes me think Iāve missed something while under my rockā¦ 
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Thatās beautiful.
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Thatās a new one/logical extension of whatās been said before.
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That article says the donor objects on religious grounds, they met in Bible study. Sounds Christian. There is no reason a Christian should be objecting on religious grounds.
I wish, these people would state what the actual religious objection is.
The fact they wonāt say leads me to believe there is no religious objection. But thatās not possible because a Bible reading person wouldnāt lie, would they?
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Their religious exemption stops when it endangers other sick people.
Unless theyāre going to show that they can raise the dead - you donāt get into a place where all the other patients are on immune suppressing drugs because theyāre getting a transplant.
And if you can heal people people through your faith- you donāt need a hospital.
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Watching that data shift around the country at the county level really shows how the infection patterns are generally regional rather than the state-based maps weāre used to seeing, but thereās one huge exception. What the heck caused Michigan to have such a strikingly high infection rate in April that seemed to end right at its border with Indiana and Ohio? Were the vaccine rates and/or public health measures in those two states drastically different than in Michigan at the time?
Edit to add: on April 16 the vaccine rate for Michigan, Indiana and Ohio were very close to each other, with Michigan a little higher than Indiana, so thatās not the reason.
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Sigh. More data rolls in, confusion ensues.
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I live in Michigan, I believe it had to do with our stupid republican legislature stripping the governor of a lot of mandate power which meant everything started opening up and people were ignoring mask mandates and capacity limits in bars and restaurants. We had to endure protests and just idiots in general ignoring anything the governor or health department had to say. I thought we did pretty good early on when she mandated lots of things to slow it down. Problem is once it did open up we played catch up for a bit.
I love this state but Iām not too fond of a large percentage of the population here.
This morning I went to Harbor Freight, all the employees were wearing masks, as I was putting on my N95 with surgical mask on top an unmasked guy coming out laughed at me. Thatās the norm in my county and Iām fed up with it. Iām also sick to death of all the last president signs still up along with large F**k Biden flags.
Showing the data to deniers is pointless because they really do believe itās all made up.
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I understand that, but it still seems like there may be more to it. Indiana also lifted statewide mask mandates and restaurant restrictions in early April, and itās hard to find many (if any) examples of how their Republican Governor and legislature put measures in place significantly better than what Michigan had.
Maybe it was all about compliance. Possibly the Republicans of Indiana were less angry about restrictions that came from a Governor of their own party, so they were less likely to disobey them out of spite? Who knows.
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