The surge in Covid-19 cases fueled by the Delta variant and vaccine hesitancy has now led to increasing rates of hospitalizations and deaths.
Data from Johns Hopkins University shows:
— The average number of new Covid-19 cases each day the past week was 32,278. That’s a 66% jump from the average daily rate the previous week, and 145% higher than the rate from two weeks ago.
— An average of 258 Americans died from Covid-19 each day this past week — up 13% from the rate of daily deaths the previous week.
— And 24,923 people are hospitalized with Covid-19, according to data from the US Department of Health and Human Services. That’s a 26% increase from last week and a 50% increase from two weeks ago.
There’s a common theme among those behind the worsening Covid-19 numbers, said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
“This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” Walensky said at a Covid-19 briefing Friday. https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/19/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html
When asked which poses a greater risk to their health, more unvaccinated Americans say the COVID-19 vaccines than say the virus itself, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll — a view that contradicts all available science and data and underscores the challenges that the United States will continue to face as it struggles to stop a growing “pandemic of the unvaccinated” driven by the hyper-contagious Delta variant. https://news.yahoo.com/unvaccinated-americans-say-covid-vaccines-are-riskier-than-virus-even-as-delta-surges-among-them-090056685.html
The former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration predicted Sunday that “most” unvaccinated Americans who haven’t already had COVID-19 will contract the delta variant — and it will be the “most serious” virus of their lives. https://news.yahoo.com/former-fda-chief-predicts-most-233318673.html
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Scientists Observed a Brainless Blob Thinking and Making Decisions https://www.vice.com/en/article/y3dqem/scientists-observed-a-brainless-blob-thinking-and-making-decisions
Circular reasoning (Latin: circulus in probando, “circle in proving”; also known as circular logic) is a logical fallacy in which the reasoner begins with what they are trying to end with. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_reasoning
The surge in Covid-19 cases fueled by the Delta variant and vaccine hesitancy has now led to increasing rates of hospitalizations and deaths.
Data from Johns Hopkins University shows:
— The average number of new Covid-19 cases each day the past week was 32,278. That’s a 66% jump from the average daily rate the previous week, and 145% higher than the rate from two weeks ago.
— An average of 258 Americans died from Covid-19 each day this past week — up 13% from the rate of daily deaths the previous week.
— And 24,923 people are hospitalized with Covid-19, according to data from the US Department of Health and Human Services. That’s a 26% increase from last week and a 50% increase from two weeks ago.
There’s a common theme among those behind the worsening Covid-19 numbers, said Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention:
“This is becoming a pandemic of the unvaccinated,” Walensky said at a Covid-19 briefing Friday. https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/19/health/us-coronavirus-monday/index.html
When asked which poses a greater risk to their health, more unvaccinated Americans say the COVID-19 vaccines than say the virus itself, according to a new Yahoo News/YouGov poll — a view that contradicts all available science and data and underscores the challenges that the United States will continue to face as it struggles to stop a growing “pandemic of the unvaccinated” driven by the hyper-contagious Delta variant. https://news.yahoo.com/unvaccinated-americans-say-covid-vaccines-are-riskier-than-virus-even-as-delta-surges-among-them-090056685.html
The former commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration predicted Sunday that “most” unvaccinated Americans who haven’t already had COVID-19 will contract the delta variant — and it will be the “most serious” virus of their lives. https://news.yahoo.com/former-fda-chief-predicts-most-233318673.html
Amid a “pandemic of the unvaccinated,” more than 40% of the nation’s nursing home and long-term health care workers have yet to receive vaccinations. https://www.propublica.org/article/dont-you-work-with-old-people-many-elder-care-workers-still-refuse-to-get-covid-19-vaccine
Justice Department says it will not investigate Covid-19 nursing home deaths in several states https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/24/politics/nursing-home-deaths-covid-justice-department-no-investigation/index.html
(Fox news): “Through vaccination or infection, doctors predict Florida will hit herd immunity to COVID-19” https://www.fox13news.com/news/through-vaccination-or-infection-doctors-predict-florida-will-hit-herd-immunity-to-covid-19
Christian Nationalists’ Role in Texas’ COVID-19 response [March through July 2020] https://www.bakerinstitute.org/media/files/files/d14d577f/rel-pub-texas-nationalists-011121.pdf
“Large study finds COVID-19 is linked to a substantial drop in intelligence” https://www.psypost.org/2021/07/large-study-finds-covid-19-is-linked-to-a-substantial-drop-in-intelligence-61577
“People who have recovered from COVID-19 tend to score significantly lower on an intelligence test compared to those who have not contracted the virus, according to new research published in The Lancet journal EClinicalMedicine. The findings suggest that the SARS-CoV-2 virus that causes COVID-19 can produce substantial reductions in cognitive ability, especially among those with more severe illness.”
Lancet: “Cognitive deficits in people who have recovered from COVID-19” (7/22/21) https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(21)00324-2/fulltext