Maps, science, data & statistics tracking of COVID-19

[dragontamer5788]

My state's cases have declined. Hospitalization numbers are bouncing around (still bouncing upwards), but... case# and %Positive are tracking clearly downwards at this point. I'm cautiously calling the Case# as "peaked" and that things will pass safely at well under the 1000-hospitalization mark for my state (so no major emergency measures need to happen for this July / August "Delta" peak).

Our vaccination numbers are among the best in the nation. https://governor.maryland.gov/2021/...-announces-95-of-maryland-seniors-vaccinated/

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817 hospitalizations is still way too much of an escalation IMO. Despite having so many vaccinated, we still got a big "bump" this past few months. Still though, our case# and test-positive% has been #2 in the nation on a state-wide basis. So we've done well compared to our neighbors. Delta is pretty ridiculous, but high-vaccination rates + masking in public areas (we have high rates of self-masking even outside of mandated areas) has been enough to keep our state's COVID19 numbers under control. (Under 5% positive, fewer than 50-cases per 100k per day, etc. etc.)

800+ hospitalizations is still a problem.

Most cases are in the 30-39 year old category (the "Echo Boomers", so that's the biggest population of our state). In general, people below 40 just haven't been getting vaccinated as much as people above 40, and the case# are making that more evident now.

The death counts in (parenthesis) are confirmed with a positive test result. The death counts with an asterisk** are unconfirmed/untested, but likely COVID19 deaths.

 

[HTC]

Our Vaccination Report was published today (click for full picture):



- top left --- people with @ least one dose
- top right --- people fully vaccinated: includes people with just one dose that had a previous COVID infection as well as people that took the single dose vaccine
- middle left --- age groups
- middle center --- @ least one dose: people and percentage
- middle right --- fully vaccinated: people and percentage
- bottom left --- doses the country has received
- bottom right --- doses the country has administered

Youngsters aged 16 to 17 have had this weekend dedicated to them for their 2nd dose. Next weekend and the weekend after is for youngsters 12 to 15: it's their turn to get their 2nd dose.

Portugal is expecting to be 85% fully vaccinated by September's end, which is almost 1 month ahead of schedule: right now, we're @ 78% fully vaccinated.

Roughly 12.5% of our population can't be vaccinated yet (kids under 12) and roughly 2.5% don't want / are afraid to be vaccinated.

 

[Vayra86]

Ivermectin haa been known to kill Covid since the early days. Trouble is, thereputic doses are literally poisonous to people. It's even hard to use in dogs. Basically only large hoofstock can tolerate it without problems (problems being usually, dying).

Joe is lucky he didn't die from the Ivermectin. Don't be like Joe. Self medicating yourself with random medicine intended for big lifestock is fullon, 100% dumbass.

Can we PLEASE just let natural selection run its course for once?

 

[LFaWolf]

Can we PLEASE just let natural selection run its course for once?

Yup, the horse med didn't work for him.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/caleb-wallace-anti-mask-freedom-005759054.html3

https://news.yahoo.com/efforts-grow-stamp-parasite-drug-205644850.html

 

[Final_Fighter]

Ive been looking at the whole Ivermectin issue different than most people and it may be do to my particular situation. I ran across a good video that talks about Ivermectin in it. what i got from it was that ivermectin isnt curing covid, its "Possibly" helping prevent long term covid symptoms do to it having anti inflammatory property's. i only bring this up because i have long term covid. And before anybody starts accusing me of taking ivermectin, im not. i think people would be foolish to think its going to cure covid, something else i should note is that it seems every time people are taking ivermectin or its being prescribed as in Joes case it was probably also prescribed with steroids, another known decreaser of inflammation. so that throws a wrench into if its effective or not. ivermectin is used for river blindness tho, so it does have a use in people but again, i dont think it cures covid. it would be interesting to see if the people who have taken it WHILE being treated have a less likely hood of developing long term symptoms.

Anyways, here is the video i was talking about. he has his sources in the description.

 

[R-T-B]

Ive been looking at the whole Ivermectin issue different than most people and it may be do to my particular situation. I ran across a good video that talks about Ivermectin in it. what i got from it was that ivermectin isnt curing covid, its "Possibly" helping prevent long term covid symptoms do to it having anti inflammatory property's. i only bring this up because i have long term covid. And before anybody starts accusing me of taking ivermectin, im not. i think people would be foolish to think its going to cure covid, something else i should note is that it seems every time people are taking ivermectin or its being prescribed as in Joes case it was probably also prescribed with steroids, another known decreaser of inflammation. so that throws a wrench into if its effective or not. ivermectin is used for river blindness tho, so it does have a use in people but again, i dont think it cures covid. it would be interesting to see if the people who have taken it WHILE being treated have a less likely hood of developing long term symptoms.

Anyways, here is the video i was talking about. he has his sources in the description.

I'm not against further studies, but I'm very against self-medication.

 

[Xzibit]

Can we PLEASE just let natural selection run its course for once?

I think that's the issue. Those susceptible to it with a lower chance of survival want demand others to protect them.

Its here to stay just like any other Coronavirus before it. At some point in your life you will get it and if your Immune System isn't able to fight it off, be it by itself or with help it will run its course especially if you have underlying conditions and are Obese.

 

[Final_Fighter]

I'm not against further studies, but I'm very against self-medication.

Same here.

 

[Space Lynx]

@Final_Fighter @R-T-B honestly there are some days I think I have long covid, but its not consistent so I have no idea. it's hard for me to know if its just the headaches from my scoliosis or long covid, its been almost a year now so I just don't remember the transition or before periods, memory has gone blank on it. I know my scoliosis did give me headaches before covid, I just don't remember them being this severe. bleh. nothing much anyone can do about it.

I agree with both of you on it, problem is CDC/FDA/NIH seem to be so entrenched in certain political talking points, they are not even willing to consider a new trial for Ivermectin, and honestly I think there should be a trial for infusion/drip Vitamin C and Zinc first before Ivermectin. Dr. Rhonda Patrick I think talked with Joe Rogan about this once, and if you take max amount of Vitamin C in pill form daily for a long time, your Vitamin C really doesn't go up all that much, but you do a drip infusion of Vitamin C and its like night and day difference right away.

I honestly think the infusions of vitamin drips is what helped Joe kick Covid in two days. They need to study that before Ivermectin imo, but it doesn't matter, at end of day they probably won't do either and just keep telling people to get their third and fourth shots.

 

[LFaWolf]

There is a simpler solution than studying this horse med. The simpler solution is to get vaccinated. Prevention rather than treatment.

 

[Space Lynx]

There is a simpler solution than studying this horse med. The simpler solution is to get vaccinated. Prevention rather than treatment.

I mostly agree with you, but there are still a good amount dying (vast majority very old) even being fully vaccinated. It would be interesting to see the vitamin c/zinc infusions on them and if it lowers the number some.

 

[Vayra86]

I mostly agree with you, but there are still a good amount dying (vast majority very old) even being fully vaccinated. It would be interesting to see the vitamin c/zinc infusions on them and if it lowers the number some.

I think its Youtube knowledge grasping at straws here. Joe Rogan... He's fun to watch, I admit.

But this is TV. Its time people started to learn what you see on TV ain't real, or if it is, you're getting a soundbite that isn't even halfway fleshed out proper. Its also frighteningly close, again, and open to a million ways to find your favorite conspiracy theory. Oh the evil pharma, keeping us drugged. What was a chip is now just a scheme for money. Yadayadayada

And its all bullshit. The Vitamin C, maxing out your daily pills is just fine, whatever your body doesn't need you leak out again. Basically your body won't be taking more than it needs on vitamins and for most people those pills on a daily dose are precisely a pharma money maker that has very little use, unless you are structurally short on those specific vitamins. What those pills essentially do is funnel money through your mouth and out the bottom somewhere. Its pointless, but if it makes you feel better, hey But how about 'an apple a day'?

The self regulating systems inside us tend to work much better if we don't worry about them too much, and just try to maintain balance in diet and movement. Its that simple, and if you stick to it you start feeling better. This has nothing to do with Covid, its a general health thing.

Keep in mind, TV needs a daily soundbite to generate that click from you. And that is all this really is. Entertainment, that people have started taking way too seriously. People that somehow think watching TV makes them smarter. The fat guy in front of the TV has just elevated himself to a guy clicking things in front of a screen, and now thinks he's smarter than the rest for clicking things. And apparently for many that is something they like to aspire to, given the vast increase of BS you can find online.

All you need to do is rewind the tape and look at history. Its chock full of nonsense like this, and none of it, well, virtually none of it, has ever stuck for any longer than a few days. Its like new battery technology. If you had to believe the news we'd already have a few hundred new kinds of batteries. Too bad that when you really work out the science, nothing is really worth while. But you can't fit that info in two sentences, so let's just score with the headline it 'might be fantastic'. The reality is the real smart guys already figured all of it out long before, the low hanging fruit is gone.

This topic has been fighting off bullshit like that since the moment it got created, mind. Its like a cancer that feeds off fear and people simply not knowing everything. Meanwhile, since day one AND prior to this pandemic, the only meaningful thing in statistics we can all agree on: vaccination and lockdowns were the biggest influencer of them all, and everything else was margin of error nonsense. It may have worked for a handful, but then again, do you really know or was it all show? We literally have 150 pages of stats underlining that.

To circle this post back on to the topic:

WHO says Covid misinformation is a major factor driving pandemic around the world

A top World Health Organization official said Tuesday that misinformation about Covid-19 and vaccines is keeping people from getting the shots, driving an increase in cases around the world. “In the last four weeks or so, the amount of misinformation that is out there seems to be getting worse...

www.cnbcafrica.com

And to underline how well we're really doing, with all our 'knowledge'... and resistance to vaccination (or just FUD which for many seems enough to distrust common science):

I'm seeing a trend here that still grows until about the first half of this year... the moment countries started vaccinating. Last peak is Delta... but if you plot the severe cases on this, we would have a strong decline now. What's clear is, transmission rate was never influenced by anything other than hard lockdowns, travel restrictions, simply: people not moving too much, and then by vaccinating while they were moving.

Take special note of Africa, low pop density.

 

[Ahhzz]

Ok, guys. Spreading a bit from the "Maps-Science-Data" purpose of this thread. Thanks!!

 

[dragontamer5788]

We see most hospitalizations are down, and overall the country's case# per day is also down.

Is this the peak? I've falsely predicted a peak about 2 times by now (I forget the exact number... but... I'm too lazy to reread this thread lol). I'm guessing this is really the peak this time, as hospitalization numbers are in fact coming down.

 

[Ahhzz]

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We see most hospitalizations are down, and overall the country's case# per day is also down.

Is this the peak? I've falsely predicted a peak about 2 times by now (I forget the exact number... but... I'm too lazy to reread this thread lol). I'm guessing this is really the peak this time, as hospitalization numbers are in fact coming down.

We can only hope... not seeing Louisiana numbers here.

 

[ThrashZone]

We can only hope... not seeing Louisiana numbers here.

Hi,
Refer to Texas numbers seeing most have evacuated here.

 

[dragontamer5788]

We can only hope... not seeing Louisiana numbers here.

Woops. There's too many states to fit in one screenshot. I scrolled down a bit more and took another screenshot for your pleasure.

Louisiana is still suffering from the lingering effects of Hurricane Ida. Apparently, that has reduced the spread of COVID19 (either the testing of COVID19, or really just reduced the number of gatherings?? And truly reducing the spread??)

Really hard for me to say for sure what is going on. But there's the numbers for ya.

 

[R-T-B]

I mostly agree with you, but there are still a good amount dying (vast majority very old) even being fully vaccinated.

The percentage of those dying that are fully vaccinated vs the number of fully vaccinated is very, very low.

 

[Xzibit]

The percentage of those dying that are fully vaccinated vs the number of fully vaccinated is very, very low.

The unvaccinated have at least a year head start. The longer this goes on the less susceptible people they are by attrition be it vaccinated or unvaccinated.

 

[dragontamer5788]

The unvaccinated have at least a year head start. The longer this goes on the less susceptible people they are by attrition be it vaccinated or unvaccinated.

We're at about 10 COVID19 deaths/day here in Maryland... and have been for the past week or two. With 100 deaths total among the fully-vaccinated crowd (and with 95% old people vaccinated and 80%+ young people vaccinated), the vaccine's efficacy is proven by our state's data.

We can ignore last year's data and just focus on the deaths occurring today. The unvaccinated are the biggest source of deaths still. Honestly, I was expecting a Simpson's paradox by now, but the data is so overwhelming that its punching through that paradox (so far).

 

[MxPhenom 216]

It was estimated at a time that 49% of cases here in the USA went undetected.


The reaction was funny. Not that he got covid but how media & socials reacted to him. So many were cheering for him to die just so they can make an example out of him. Its like the survivability rate escapes them.

He should sue CNN for saying he was taking "horse de-wormer drug" when his doctor literally prescribed it for him.

 

[MxPhenom 216]

There is a simpler solution than studying this horse med. The simpler solution is to get vaccinated. Prevention rather than treatment.

Its not a horse med. Maybe we should start of with killing off that tid bit of misinformation.

Its been used and researched in humans for a long time. It even received a Nobel peace prize in 2015.

Ivermectin for COVID-19: real-time meta analysis of 63 studies (ivmmeta.com)

This website takes every study released, peer reviewed and puts it all into one compilation website of pure data on pretty much any treatment you want to look at.

 

[Ahhzz]

Its not a horse med. Maybe we should start of with killing off that tid bit of misinformation.

Its been used and researched in humans for a long time. It even received a Nobel peace prize in 2015.

Ivermectin for COVID-19: real-time meta analysis of 63 studies (ivmmeta.com)

• The drug ivermectin is more than a “horse dewormer.” Its discovery for use in treating parasitic diseases in humans won a Nobel Prize.
• But COVID-19 is not a parasitic disease; it’s a viral disease. There is no conclusive evidence that ivermectin is effective in preventing or treating COVID-19 in humans, and there are physical risks in taking it.
• The Food and Drug Administration and the World Health Organization are among public health agencies that warn against taking ivermectin for COVID-19.

Here we are again, having to fight against those who insist the Vaccine is untested, unproved, unapproved, yet insist a parasitic treatment is the Holy Hand Grenade.

 

[dragontamer5788]

This website takes every study released, peer reviewed and puts it all into one compilation website of pure data on pretty much any treatment you want to look at.

Table: Ivermectin Clinical Data | COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines

Review clinical data on the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19.

www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov

This website is from the NIH. I've summarized for another user already, but it seems like you're new to the discussion. So I'll elaborate once more.

Here's the excerpts from the conclusion on each line-item, to speed things up. Feel free to read over the webpage yourself.

A 5-day course of IVM did not improve time to resolution of symptoms in patients with mild COVID-19.

A 5-day course of IVM resulted in faster virologic clearance than placebo, but not a faster time to resolution of symptoms (fever, cough, and sore throat). Because time to virologic clearance is not a validated surrogate marker for clinical efficacy, the clinical efficacy of IVM is unknown.

A 5-day course of IVM in hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19 did not result in clinical improvement at the end of treatment, and no reduction in mortality was observed.

Use of IVM did not reduce risk of oxygen requirement, ICU admission, invasive mechanical ventilation, or death in hospitalized patients with severe COVID-19.

IVM showed no effect on symptom resolution in patients with mild COVID-19.

Just the first five studies the NIH decided to analyze / summarize. As you can see, the website has many, many, many IVM studies. We have so much information, we're beginning to need meta-analysis tools to really understand what's going on.

Sure, some studies show IVM effectiveness. But the vast majority of respected studies show no improvement. You don't just "pick and choose" the studies that favor your point of view, you need to look at all studies and then make a judgement. Meta-analysis is pretty difficult overall, but very important when we're discussing competing studies.

Any reasonable person looking at the meta-analysis (aka: which studies are strongest? Which studies are weakest? What's the pattern we see across many different studies?) suggests that IVM is NOT an effective treatment. And this happens again, and again, and again throughout the analysis. On cases of "Severe" COVID19, on "Mild" cases, in combination with other drugs, in substitution of other drugs / the standard of care (SOC), etc. etc.

The vast majority of studies suggest that IVM does literally nothing for COVID19. After all, IVM is an anti-parasite (scabies / lice) medicine in humans, and horse dewormer for horses. Its original purpose never was for viruses. I'm sure more studies will come in, but there's dozens of high-quality studies on this subject already that fail to prove any efficacy of IVM.

 

[Xzibit]

Just the first five studies the NIH decided to analyze / summarize. As you can see, the website has many, many, many IVM studies. We have so much information, we're beginning to need meta-analysis tools to really understand what's going on.

Sure, some studies show IVM effectiveness. But the vast majority of respected studies show no improvement. You don't just "pick and choose" the studies that favor your point of view, you need to look at all studies and then make a judgement. Meta-analysis is pretty difficult overall, but very important when we're discussing competing studies.

Any reasonable person looking at the meta-analysis (aka: which studies are strongest? Which studies are weakest? What's the pattern we see across many different studies?) suggests that IVM is NOT an effective treatment. And this happens again, and again, and again throughout the analysis.

You say any reasonable person yet

Recommendation​

• There is insufficient evidence for the COVID-19 Treatment Guidelines Panel (the Panel) to recommend either for or against the use of ivermectin for the treatment of COVID-19. Results from adequately powered, well-designed, and well-conducted clinical trials are needed to provide more specific, evidence-based guidance on the role of ivermectin in the treatment of COVID-19.