For most of the last year or so of the Covid pandemic, New Zealand and Australia have looked on the United States with smug contempt.
The shoe is very much on the other foot, now.
We here in the Antipodes remain under the harshest lockdowns outside of a welded-shut apartment block in Wuhan. On the other hand, Americans, at least in some states, like Britons, are happily going about their lives, mostly free of restrictions.
And their Covid rates are dropping even as ours surge.
Hospital admissions for COVID-19 patients in the United States are declining for the first time since late June, suggesting the latest surge has peaked.
So roughly eight weeks, and Covid starts to drop off. This seems to be the same basic pattern of any outbreak, regardless of restrictions. This suggests strongly that Covid will do its thing and the illusion of control is exactly that.
The seven-day average of new daily hospitalizations with confirmed COVID-19 dropped by 2.4 percent from a week earlier to about 12,280—the first such drop since around June 27, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It comes as fewer hospitalizations are being reported in Florida, Texas, and other Southern states, the agency said.
Those are, remember, the wicked red states that, having abandoned most restrictions, were imminent death traps.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) COVID-19 tracker shows that the seven-day average for both deaths and cases appears to be leveling out. Previous surges of cases—including in the spring of 2020, in late July to early August 2020, and January 2021—always leveled out and then dropped.
Another interesting point is that, despite the hysterical scare-mongering of our politicians and media, the supposedly fearsome Delta Variant is a bit of a fizzer.
During prior surges, the COVID-19 death rate appeared to be higher, according to the CDC’s data. For example, on Jan. 13 of this year—which saw the most COVID-19 deaths per day—the number of daily deaths was about 4,169, with about 240,000 daily cases. Amid the current surge, on Aug. 31 the CDC reported the number of daily deaths (seven-day average) to be about 985, with about 150,000 daily cases[…]
Dr. Jeffrey Shaman, director of the Climate and Health Program at Columbia University, told WebMD that the death rate from COVID-19 fell from 0.77 percent in April 2020 to 0.31 in December 2020, meaning that by the end of last year, the COVID-19 survival rate for all demographics was 99.69 percent.
The data also suggests, for the rest of the world, Covid is fading out to just another seasonal bug.
A new study published in Nature last week revealed that about one-third of all Americans, or more than 100 million people, had likely been infected with COVID-19 by the end of 2020 […]
Last week, researchers in Israel found that individuals who had previously been infected with COVID-19 saw greater protection against the Delta variant than those who received both Pfizer vaccine shots.
“This study demonstrated that natural immunity confers longer-lasting and stronger protection against infection, symptomatic disease and hospitalization caused by the Delta variant of SARS-CoV-2, compared to the BNT162b2 two-dose vaccine-induced immunity,” the researchers wrote
The Epoch Times
Who’s laughing now, eh?
Please share this article so that others can discover The BFD