WORLDOMETER COVID-19 Deaths in USA 7/27/2020: 596 with 61,571 new cases

Worldometer ^ | July 27, 2020

[MinorityRepublican]

Florida is way down, under 9,000 new cases. Their peak was 15,000. Arizona isn't so "hot" now that they're under 2,000 new cases. Now with California shutting down again, they're just postponing their peak.

[JerryBlackwell]

How many false positives out of the 61k new cases?

[ransomnote]

 Well, there's also  people who were going to get tested and didn't, only to be told they tested positive.

‘I Have NOT Been Tested’: 600,000 Accidentally Told They’ve Had COVID-19

There's the border states taking in Covid cases from Mexico to boost their numbers and spread contagion.

Trump Is on Point: The Covid-infected Are Fleeing Mexico…for US Hospitals

Then there's the woman who said she was told her positive result would count toward the total for a neighboring county because "they need more there". (Falsely show more counties with cases in order to push lockdown of state?)

There's the accounts of people being tested in both nostrils and therefore double counted to get the numbers up.

There's the fact that Covid-19 cases were cruelly, murderously inflated by Dem Governors trying to keep the shutdown going by forcing Covid-19 patients into rest homes among the most vulnerable.

Steve Scalise's letter to Governors of NJ, MI, CA, NY, and PA re Forcing Covid-19 patients into elder care facilitys.

There's the CDC and some locations in the nation (e.g., particular region of county) which count  "presumed" (untested, unidentified) cases of Covid-19 for people who died but were not tested, or in part of Texas, they count 15 Covid-19 cases for every single positive test.

There are reports (by doctors) of persons who died of other causes (e.g., COPD) being coded as Covid-19 because in addition to fatal diseases, they ALSO tested positive for Covid-19.

There's the fact that Covid-19 cases were cruelly, murderously inflated by Dem Governors trying to keep the shutdown going by forcing Covid-19 patients into rest homes among the most vulnerable.

I think forgot some fake statistics. There's just so many. WEll, there's the fact that the CDC didn't use proper proceedures and sent out positive tests.

I forget which Governor brought a shipment of tests in from South Korea and set them under guard with National Guard troops.

Gavin Newsom purchased half a billion dollars worth of masks from China. He purchased them from a car manufacturer or some auto oriented industry. It's likely that was flat out bribery, CA is totally sold to China by now, but if they did produce masks I'd assume they were tainted. The Chinese are not our friends.

[MinorityRepublican]

At the very least there should be an investigation in Governor Cuomo’s handling of COVID-19 nursing home patients. If what he did was criminal, he needs to go to federal prison, as simple as that. President Trump needs to warn him that he could treat him like a Mafia boss. Cuomo is Italian so he would understand that.

[pepsi_junkie]

The trend for months has been that the weekend is a big dip, monday is a little higher as some of the weekend numbers come in and then Tuesday has a big jump as the rest of the weekend numbers come in. Then Wed-Fri are pretty flat.

Bottom line: don't get suckered in by Monday numbers.

[Fledermaus]

61K

[smokingfrog]

In the US, the number of active cases and recovered cases are about equal now.

[Erik Latranyi]

Deaths never spiked in proportion to positive tests.

Hospitals were never overwhelmed.

Positive cases and deaths are declining.

The spike in positive cases proves herd immunity is working.

Restrictions should have been lifted at the beginning of June.

[Adder]

Florida is way down, under 9,000 new cases.

Maybe they finally learned to count?

[P.O.E.]

Not to sound cold-hearted BUT:

3 Trillion dollars divided by 200,000 deaths comes to

$15 million dollars per death.

Imagine what could have been done to isolated / quarantine / treat, etc. those 200,000 with all that money - perhaps even more effectively saving their lives.

Leaving the rest of the economy to continue on.

[UNGN]

The Numbers on Worldometer are Jacked up from the Weekend.

Worldometer says there were 450 Deaths in Texas yesterday on the Texas tab, but on the USA tag it only says 97.

[Kozak]

Let’s be generous and say 5%.

That’s still 55 k new cases.

[krug]

My son’s college roommate was tested positive...no symptoms at all, in fact healthy as a horse. Brought son home for a week. Son never got “it”, other 2 roommates never got it, parents never got “it”. Of course non of us tested, but don’t you have to be “SICK” to have Covid...or is it even a real thing?

[2aProtectsTheRest]

How many false negatives, considering the first 4 days of infection have a high false negative rate on SARS-CoV-2 PCR testing?

"The false-negative rate for SARS-CoV-2 RT-PCR testing is highly variable: highest within the first 5 days after exposure (up to 67%), and lowest on day 8 after exposure (21%)." https://www.acc.org/latest-in-cardiology/journal-scans/2020/05/18/13/42/variation-in-false-negative-rate-of-reverse

There will always be some level of uncertainty in the numbers. We don't ever get exact numbers for any disease, seasonal influenza among them. The individual numbers themselves are not as critical as the trends and the magnitude. Right now, 7-day moving average of new cases is showing a plateau. That's better than going up still. Hopefully that begins to drop soon. The 7-day moving average for deaths is a lagging indicator, typically around 15-17 days behind the new cases numbers. So that's probably going to continue to rise for a few more days before it levels off.

[MinorityRepublican]

Maybe y’all got it but never felt any symptoms. Of course, there’s no way to know. I think there’s a lot of more cases like that and we are closer to herd immunity than we think.