The United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform will issue a subpoena seeking information on Humica and Imbruvica. | Pixabay
The United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform will issue a subpoena seeking information on Humica and Imbruvica. | Pixabay
Missouri finds itself at 489 deaths per million making it 27th in the country when it comes to COVID-related deaths, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
The project found that when it comes to COVID-19 data, people have been looking at decontextualized data, which is causing hysteria like children staying out of school and businesses shutting down.
Missouri’s deaths and hospitalizations have not followed the same path as case increases and, instead, the state has stayed between 120 people per million in hospitals to 220 per million with an average of 3 deaths per day per million, which isn’t anywhere near increased case numbers.
“Like so many other states that have flattened both their death curves, and their hospitalization curves, Missouri comes in only for abuse. Missouri has less than 1/3 the death rate of Massachusetts, and less than 1/4 that of New York,” the commentary states. “Hospitalizations have remained very static, staying in a range of 120 - 220 patients per million, compared to Massachusetts which is 3-4 times higher, and New York 5-10 times higher. Then there's the matter of Missouri's unemployment number which is roughly half that of both NY and Massachusetts, at 4.9%.”
Since Sept. 15, there has been a significant increase in testing for COVID-19 at 55 percent, which has also led to an increase in positive cases, leading many to assume the country is heading into a third wave of infections and deaths.
Emily Burns with The Pragmatist writes that it’s important to put the new numbers into context so that people will make wise decisions regarding what to do about the pandemic. She writes that in May, cases were tracked at nearly the same as hospitalizations. She notes that deaths and hospitalizations are more reliable data when tracking than cases are
With COVID-19 testing up 70 percent since the second wave, Burns points out that the surge in testing is responsible for the increased number of new cases seen across the nation, not an increased infection rate many have been led to believe.
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