Studies of COVID excess deaths (defined as the difference between the number of predicted and observed COVID deaths) and found that excess deaths were 76% higher in Florida and Ohio Republicans than in Democrats. And here's the thing: According to some research, that partisanship is biting Republicans themselves. Yeah, well: Perhaps the president shouldn't have said it was "over?"īut to be fair, this has become a partisan issue, with Republicans decrying masking and even vaccines. "You can't fight a deadly virus without resources," he said, "and congressional inaction is really costly." Jha this week also criticized Congress, which has refused the White House's $22 billion budget request for virus response, saying that has kept the nation from building a stockpile of tests to use in the event of a new winter surge. "We are not helpless against these challenges," he said. has the tools, both from vaccines and treatments, to largely eliminate serious illness and death from the virus. Instead, we should step up to get the updated Omicron booster by Halloween to have maximum protection against the virus (and another surge) by Thanksgiving and the holidays. Ashish Jha, the White House's COVID response coordinator, says we can make or break this improving trend. (Flu and pneumonia combined were the ninth-leading cause of death in 2020, and in 2021 they fell out of the top 10.) For comparison, flu kills about 12,000 to 52,000 people a year. could expect 113,000 to 188,000 deaths a year from the novel coronavirus. The end, alas, is up to us.Įxperts say they expect COVID, which was our country's third leading cause of death in 20, to remain among leading causes of death at least on par with Alzheimer's, chronic lower respiratory diseases and stroke indefinitely - whether or not the pandemic is over.Īccording to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, COVID deaths since April this year have trended down and stayed relatively flat nationally at a weekly average of around 300 to 500 a day. But let's not count our chickens before they are hatched. The end of helplessness against COVID, sure. Still, from either a snippet or from the entire interview, no one should take any of it as a declaration of COVID's end. He cited the fact that people are no longer wearing masks, that large public events such as the Detroit Auto Show have resumed in person, and that concerns about COVID-19 no longer dictate our behaviors in the way they did over the past two years.
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But a full viewing of the "60 Minutes" interview with the president offered context. The headline snatches of Biden's comment were, and still are, confusing at best. And on Wednesday - just Wednesday - the Hamilton County Health Department listed 24 new daily cases.Īgain, we're glad and grateful our risk, and that of much of the country, is factored now as "low." Just this summer, we were high.īut even while President Joe Biden in September termed the pandemic "over," hundreds of people were still dying of it everyday. If you read our obituaries page, you saw that it claimed at least one man here just last week.
People here and everywhere are still getting COVID. But don't be lulled into thinking the virus - still a leading cause of death in our country - is done with us. Thankfully, the CDC and other trackers are rating the risk of COVID-19 in Tennessee and Hamilton County as "low" these days.
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