What is a ‘case’ of COVID-19
What does the rise in COVID-19 cases mean? NOT MUCH. Here’s how the local paper played it — https://www.masslive.com/coronavirus/2021/07/just-one-month-aver-hitting-pandemic-lows-new-covid-cases-in-massachusetts-continue-to-rise-as-delta-variant-spreads.html
There were 208 ‘cases’ today 14 July 2021 in Massachusetts, which is a rate 46% higher than last week. In the past two weeks there have been about 1,000 cases according to the Massachusetts department of health. https://www.mass.gov/info-details/covid-19-response-reporting#covid-19-interactive-data-dashboard-
So the hospitals must be packed and deaths must be soaring. Right?
Wrong — the same article tells us that there are currently 100 people in Massachusetts hospitals with COVID-19 and that there was one death today
This means that what they are calling a case of COVID-19 is not enough to put 90% of people with it in the hospital. Most of the ‘cases’ of COVID-19 in Massachusetts are either asymptomatic or mild.
It’s hard to find comparable statistics from states with lower vaccination rates (e.g. the south) but deaths are also lower there.
Well what about the Delta variant? It is definitely more infectious, and the disease it causes is more severe. We should be in big trouble if Delta takes over in the USA. Right?
Wrong. Delta has taken over. According to the CDC, Delta accounts for 58% of all new cases of COVID-19 in the USA — https://abcnews.go.com/Health/delta-variant-now-accounts-58-covid-19-cases/story?id=78834579. Deaths have not spiked. The vaccines are working.
Presently nearly all the deaths from COVID-19 are in people who were not vaccinated, so to lower your odds further please get vaccinated.
My friends and I did — https://luysii.wordpress.com/2021/05/19/anti-vaxers-what-is-it-that-you-know-that-we-dont/