by Curt Anderson on July 22, 2021 11:29 am
In the last 7 days, Alabama has averaged slightly more than 1,000 new cases per day...
...and 5 deaths per day...less than half of one percent! --HtS
Do you think that's good?!
Alabama
CASES DAILY AVG.-- 1,047
HOSPITALIZED DAILY AVG. -- 533
DEATHS DAILY AVG. -- 4.9
"COVID-19 appears to be more contagious and to spread more quickly than the flu. Severe illness such as lung injury is more frequent with COVID-19 than with influenza. The mortality rate also is higher with COVID-19 than the flu.
So far, more than 32 million people have had COVID-19 in the U.S. So far, more than 580,000 people have died of COVID-19 in the U.S. in 2020 and 2021.
By comparison, during the 2019-2020 flu season in the U.S., about 38 million people had the flu and about 22,000 people died of the flu."
nytimes.com
mayoclinic.org
by HatetheSwamp on July 22, 2021 11:50 am
Chicken Little AKA Curt,
These days with the vaccines and advanced therapeutics, COVID is little more bother than the flu.
It appeared a yearish ago that the sky might be falling.
It ain't.