Deaths and Cases per day have both doubled in the United States over the past three weeks
This is despite the fact that 65% of all states (and Washington DC) are no longer reliably reporting COVID cases or deaths
Texas is currently experiencing the fastest growth in new cases of the entire World while South Carolina is second in the World in new deaths per day
@MolnarSteven OMG you are right. Thanks for pointing that out. I screwed up the average range in the spreadsheet
The chart is correct. The average deaths per months is not
And you are right, it's worse
I will update
4/Take away that ANY infection can be expected to produce blood clotting, which can lead to all kinds of problems
And that people dying of clotting from a SARS2 infection is "normal"
3/It just knows that the call is coming from inside the house
Did you get cut? Is there a virus? A bacteria? Break a bone?
Don't know
So the innate system reacts with every tool it has
It makes you shit your pants, in case it's in your gut
It makes you vomit, in case it's in your stomach
It makes you cough and sneeze, in case it's in your lungs
It produces scar tissue in case your skin is torn
It makes your blood clot, in case you are bleeding
It's an "all hands on deck" response
2/Understand that the innate system doesn't have a memory, unlike the adaptive system
But it is the front line.
It's also extremely effective. Our skin is an integral part of the innate immune system and blocks most bad stuff from ever even having a chance of getting inside our bodies
But sometimes stuff slips past the skin, like when you don't wear a mask.
When that happens, the innate system detects that there is something wrong
But it doesn't know what is wrong or even where it is
1/On clotting
We have two immune systems. One, called the "innate" immune system we inherited from our reptile ancestors
The other, called the "adaptive" immune system is where things like antibodies and immunity (as in I got chickenpox and am now immune) comes from
Clotting is a function of the innate immune system. It's one of its "tools"
Other tools of the innate immune system are:
* Vomiting
* Diarrhea
* Sneezing
* Coughing
* Scarring
* Fever
There have now been two sports journalists, in their 40s, to suddenly die in Qatar. As has happened before the media has launched a concerted effort to assure the public their deaths are not due to their previous COVID cases
In Qatar this is taking the form of speculating that it could be MERS, not COVID. This is ridiculous
Qatar has on average one MERS death a year. Two more would mean a 200% increase
It's COVID
@tadbithuman I cite the sources at the top of the graph. Deaths are taken from CDC's WONDER system using the ICD-10 codes on the graph
Cases are taken from the CDC's restricted case data, also cited on the graph
Before the pandemic, males aged 25-54 in the United States died from cardiovascular or respiratory diseases at a rate of 7,037 a month. Since the pandemic began that has risen to an average of 9,799 a month.
There is no doubt in my mind that these are COVID deaths that are not being attributed to COVID and that we are under-counting COVID deaths in the 25-54 male demographic by 2x
