You have repeatedly said people are "giddy" over deaths. Only a despicable piece of shit would make that sort of embarrassing claim. You should be ashamed.
Covid Deaths in Alabama last three days
- Thread starter cookedw
- Start date
The 7-day average is less today than it was last Wednesday.
Remember what the OP said. We are discussing Alabama.
Lol. They were giddy to rush here and post about deaths having gone up today. I'm not reposting my earlier post where I pointed out I don't think ANYONE is pulling for more deaths.
So if you choose not to read my other post and continue down this path of yours to look as stupid as possible, have at it
The COVID19 tracking project is not a random source. They compile data from the various state departments of health along with the CDC. The chart I posted reflects the reality of the situation which is that deaths have increased over the last two weeks. 3 weeks ago, deaths peaked in the 600 range on the highest day of the week. 2 weeks ago, they peaked in the 800 range. Last week, deaths were over 900 at mid week. Yesterday was the first day with over 1k deaths since May. The CDC agrees over 1k people died yesterday. This is being driven by the sharp rise in deaths in the states that saw the largest spikes in new cases in June.
No one was giddy about people dying. The morons who have aggressively downplayed this crisis obviously need to be shown they were incorrect (again) if there is any hope they will ever stop spreading their recklessly false narratives.
I was replying to his post, which was about the US. My main focus in this thread has been clearly Alabama, and it's my main focus since I live here.
You should start a thread solely on US if you would like
1,126 new deaths. 7 day average has continued to increase. Stop desperately trying to dismiss reality because it doesn't fit your narrative. Just as has always been the case, downplaying this crisis makes it less likely we will be able to get it under control as many other countries have succeeded in doing.
It’s the number one respected source on this. It also usually shows lower deaths than worldometers.
I am not downplaying anything. Please do not suggest that I am.
I take your responses as an inability to rebut the CDC data I linked head on. You have not addressed it directly. Do you believe the data on CDC website is correct? It is understandable if you do not agree with the CDC data, but stop posturing. I assume you are a litigator. So am I. It’s a learned trait we share.
The CDC does not publish the data on their website in a manner that is easy to digest. I looked over the link you posted and they are still posting deaths in a category that includes pneumonia which makes little sense to me. They also don't publish any charts to track the death toll from what I could find. I am not sure why the CDC is making it difficult to use their data, but they certainly aren't doing as good of a job as COVID19 tracking or some other groups that are aggregating data from the CDC and state departments of health which is why they are cited rather than the CDC's website. They do an excellent job of breaking it down by days of the week so comparisons to prior weeks can be drawn easily.
Best things on Twitter are:
Check out Bad Legal Takes (@BadLegalTakes): https://twitter.com/BadLegalTakes?s=09
Check out Freezing Cold Takes (@OldTakesExposed): https://twitter.com/OldTakesExposed?s=09
Check out Baseball Card Backs (@sportcardbacks): https://twitter.com/sportcardbacks?s=09
Check out You Had One Job! (@_youhadonejob1): https://twitter.com/_youhadonejob1?s=09
Last edited:
2nd straight Monday - Wednesday where total deaths declined by at least 16%.
27-29: 61 deaths
20-22: 71 deaths
13-15: 90 deaths
Data pulled Bamatracker.com
7-day average for total cases lowest it's been since July 13th
Hospitalizations 7-day average lowest it's been since July 19th and confirmed hospitalizations have remained flat for the last week.
The Rate of Reproduction of the virus is the lowest it's been during the entire pandemic
Hopefully these trends continue
27-29: 61 deaths
20-22: 71 deaths
13-15: 90 deaths
Data pulled Bamatracker.com
7-day average for total cases lowest it's been since July 13th
Hospitalizations 7-day average lowest it's been since July 19th and confirmed hospitalizations have remained flat for the last week.
The Rate of Reproduction of the virus is the lowest it's been during the entire pandemic
Hopefully these trends continue
I always wondered how they calculate the rate of reproduction. That’s the best news I’ve seen on it form alabama though. If the virus is below the threshold of growing exponentially that’s great news
No clue. I'm just pulling the data off the site. They only report it on Wednesdays
Yes, lower numbers is certainly positive. Hopefully this is a trend. Just saw my neighbor that is a doc at UAB and asked him if they had seen any drop-off in cases and he said they had not. Hopefully that's just a function of so many cases being transferred there from other hospitals.
I don’t live in AL so I don’t follow AL. Nationwide, we had 1400 deaths today which is the most since May 15. Southern states accounted for 962 of those deaths.
So you literally won't say these are good trends for Alabama?
Also, where are you seeing 1400? I'm not saying you are wrong, but this is showing 1116
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us
I didn’t even read them. I’m more concerned with the nation as a whole and GA. If cases, deaths and hospitalizations are going down in a meaningful way then that’s good.
Also, where are you seeing 1400? I'm not saying you are wrong, but this is showing 1116
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us
Silver does a good job of summarizing their report and comparing it to a week before. Also, deaths could’ve been 100 or so higher due to TX backlog.
A lot of errors have been found in worldometers data. It's fine for looking at general trends, but they appear to be publishing data as fast as they can get it for countries around the world without much effort to curate it. COVD-19 tracking and Johns Hopkins appear to be better sources for accurate info on the US. Florida set their record for deaths today with over 200 and the south as a region hit nearly 1k.
What makes that one the best? Can you look state by state through them to compare which states are way off?
They state that Texas may be overstated
A lot of errors have been found in worldometers data. It's fine for looking at general trends, but they appear to be publishing data as fast as they can get it for countries around the world without much effort to curate for accuracy. COVD-19 tracking and Johns Hopkins appear to be better sources for accurate info on the US.
They said minutes later they found that out. So 1274 deaths. That’s still the highest in months unless it happened last week which I don’t think it did. This will be the 4th week in a row of deaths increasing.
That could be it. No one knows much about worldometers or who is involved with it aside form the info they have on their website. This article looks at their background and notes some of the issues with the data they have reported.
According to Worldometer’s website, its Covid-19 data comes from a multilingual team that “monitors press briefings’ live streams throughout the day” and through crowdsourcing.
Visitors can report new Covid-19 numbers and data sources to the website – no name or email address required. A “team of analysts and researchers” validate the data, the website says. It may, at first, sound like the Wikipedia of the data world, but some Wikipedia editors have decided to avoid Worldometer as a source for Covid-19 data.
“Several updates lack a source, do not match their cited source or contain errors,” one editor, posting under the username MarioGom, wrote on a discussion page for Wikipedia editors working on Covid-19-related content last month. “Some errors are small and temporary, but some are relatively big and never corrected.”
The editor, whose real name is Mario Gómez, told CNN in an email, “Instead of trying to use a consistent criteria, [Worldometer] seems to be going for the highest figure. They have a system for users to report higher figures, but so far I failed to use it to report that some figure is erroneous and should be lower.”
Edouard Mathieu, the data manager for Our World in Data (OWID), an independent statistics website headquartered at Oxford University, has seen a similar trend.
“Their main focus seems to be having the latest number wherever it comes from, whether it’s reliable or not, whether it’s well-sourced or not,” he said. “We think people should be wary, especially media, policy-makers and decision-makers. This data is not as accurate as they think it is.”
Virginia Pitzer, a Yale University epidemiologist focused on modeling Covid-19’s spread in the United States, said she’d never heard of Worldometer. CNN asked her to assess the website’s reliability.
“I think the Worldometer site is legitimate,” she wrote via email, explaining that many of its sources appear to be credible government websites. But she also found flaws, inconsistencies and an apparent lack of expert curation. “The interpretation of the data is lacking,” she wrote, explaining that she found the data on active cases “particularly problematic” because data on recoveries is not consistently reported.
Pitzer also found few detailed explanations of data reporting issues or discrepancies. For Spain, it’s a single sentence. For many other countries, there are no explanations at all.
She also found errors. In the Spanish data, for instance, Worldometer reports more than 18,000 recoveries on April 24. The Spanish government reported 3,105 recoveries that day.
https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2020/05/world/worldometer-coronavirus-mystery/
I did my best to catch COVID in late March and finally did About 2 months ago. Best decision I ever made! If you are healthy and under 60 I would suggest catching it. Of course, there are exceptions to the rule just like there is with anything in life. Someone will die that is young and healthy that can’t be explained just like they do with other viruses.
Likely, unless things change the last half of the week. 7 day average is up ~25 through yesterday, when compared to Saturday
