Mariner Talk Chat Forum

D-train wrote: ↑

Sat Jul 04, 2020 7:19 pm

Why don't they ask everyone that tests positive if they have been wearing masks and social distancing and make that info public?

Lords of Scythia wrote: ↑

Sun Jul 05, 2020 6:12 pm

There was a run on guns for a while there. I think that was for when the toilet paper runs out.

But we’re all supposed to die! According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the number of deaths from the Wuhan virus had declined so much that the agency is on the verge of calling the epidemic over.

The CDC qualifies a disease outbreak as an “epidemic” if the number of deaths attributable to the disease exceeds a certain percentage of total deaths per week. That threshold for pneumonia, influenza and COVID-19 fluctuates slightly depending on the time of year, ranging from around 7% at the height of flu season to around 5% during less virulent months.

…The latest data show that the percentage of deaths in the country attributable to those factors had as of the last week in June reached its lowest point since the end of last year, becoming “equal to the [current] epidemic threshold of 5.9%,” the CDC said.