Narrative Fail: 15 Days After Ditching Lockdown for Swedish Model Georgia Sees Lowest Day Of COVID Hospitalizations

After CNN scaremongered that deaths would double

Republican Governor Brian Kemp of Georgia celebrated the state’s lowest number of hospitalized novel coronavirus patients and the fewest number of COVID-19 patients on ventilators on Saturday, 15 days since the Republican loosened lockdown restrictions in the face of persistent attacks from the mainstream media and the public disapproval of President Donald Trump.

Respiratory symptoms of COVID-19 “typically appear an average of 5-6 days after exposure, but may appear in as few as 2 days or as long as 14 days after exposure,” per the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), UC San Diego Health notes.

“Today marks the lowest number of COVID-19 positive patients currently hospitalized statewide (1,203) since hospitals began reporting this data on April 8th,” Kemp posted to Twitter on Saturday.

“Today also marks the lowest total of ventilators in use (897 with 1,945 available). We will win this fight together!”

As noted by The New York Times, Kemp reopened large parts of Georgia’s economy on April 24, adding, of course, COVID-19 precautions, like screening workers for fever.

According to a daunting CNN headline published April 28, “Georgia’s daily coronavirus deaths will nearly double by August with relaxed social distancing, model suggests.”

“Kemp allowed for the reopening of hair and nail salons, barber shops, massage businesses and gyms under new safety standards. He allowed restaurants and theaters to reopen with new restrictions Monday,” the CNN report said. “With the assumption of relaxed social distancing, the model predicts that the number of Covid-19 deaths per day in Georgia will jump from 32 people dying on May 1 to a projected 63 people dying per day by August 4.”

“Currently, 995 people have died from Covid-19 in Georgia, according to the model, and it projects that number could climb to 4,691 by August 4. The projection for total deaths in the state provides a range of estimates between 1,686 deaths on the lower end to up to 15,620 deaths on the higher end,” the report added. “According to the model, the top five states out of the 12 in the Southeast with the highest projected total deaths by August 4 are: Louisiana, Georgia, Florida, Virginia and North Carolina.”

Fifteen days after the lockdown ease, however, hospitalizations in Georgia have hit a low.

As noted by The Daily Wire late last month, Republican Governor Ron DeSantis of Florida ripped into the media for their failing, dire predictions of his novel coronavirus response.

Asked about criticism that he’s face for not implementing a full shutdown early on, DeSantis let the media have it. “What have the results been?” he rhetorically asked, according to Fox News. “You look at some of the most draconian orders that have been issued in some of these states and compare Florida in terms of our hospitalizations per 100,000, in terms of our fatalities per 100,000.”

“I mean, you go from D.C., Maryland, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, you name it. Florida has done better,” the governor continued.

“And that has not happened because we understood we have a big, diverse state, we understood the outbreak was not uniform throughout the state, and we had a tailored and measured approach that not only helped our numbers be way below what anyone predicted, but also did less damage to our state going forward,” explained DeSantis.

“We’ve had people in the hospital, but I am now in a situation where I have less than 500 people at a state of 22 million on ventilators as of last night,” he added. “And I have 6,500 ventilators that are sitting idle, unused throughout the state of Florida.”

Source: The Daily Wire


Georgia’s daily coronavirus deaths will nearly double by August with relaxed social distancing, model suggests

The projections for the state of Georgia show the highest uptick in deaths per day will be between May and August for the region.

As some Southeastern US states start to reopen, Georgia is projected to see its number of daily COVID-19 deaths nearly double by early August, according to a model shared by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and created by independent researcher Youyang Gu.

The epidemiological model, which provides projections for 40 countries and every US state, has been included among the seven models CDC highlights on its website for COVID-19 forecasting.

Gu said Tuesday that his model is based on an epidemiological methodology called SEIS, which stands for susceptible, exposed, infectious, susceptible modeling.

“We use a very classic epidemiologic model,” Gu said, adding that his model is updated daily and he is concerned other models are under-projecting deaths.

When it comes to deaths, the coronavirus crisis “might be more serious than what people have been thinking,” Gu said. “I want to make sure that people understand the facts and the science.”

Nationally, as of Tuesday morning, the model predicts that there will be a total of 153,373 mean deaths in the United States, with a predicted range of 87,409 deaths to 302,324 deaths.

Out of the 12 states in the Southeast United States, the model’s projections for Georgia are the only that assume statewide social distancing will be relaxed starting on May 1, to reflect Gov. Brian Kemp’s orders to reopen the state. The projections for the state of Georgia show the highest uptick in deaths per day will be between May and August for the region.

On Friday, Kemp allowed for the reopening of hair and nail salons, barber shops, massage businesses and gyms under new safety standards. He allowed restaurants and theaters to reopen with new restrictions Monday.

With the assumption of relaxed social distancing, the model predicts that the number of COVID-19 deaths per day in Georgia will jump from 32 people dying on May 1 to a projected 63 people dying per day by August 4.

Currently, 995 people have died from COVID-19 in Georgia, according to the model, and it projects that number could climb to 4,691 by August 4. The projection for total deaths in the state provides a range of estimates between 1,686 deaths on the lower end to up to 15,620 deaths on the higher end.

According to the model, the top five states out of the 12 in the Southeast with the highest projected total deaths by August 4 are: Louisiana, Georgia, Florida, Virginia and North Carolina.

While the model’s assumption for Georgia is that social distancing measures would loosen by May, the model assumes that for every other state reopening will begin in June.

“But we’re looking at moving that up because obviously many states now are considering reopening — but still the issue is that ultimately no one knows what’s going to happen,” Gu said.

Overall, the model’s projections are estimates and predictions that come with caveats, Gu said. For each state, the projections provide a wide range of how many deaths could happen — depending on whether people continue social distancing and other possible factors.

“There is that huge uncertainty that what will happen is very prone to be affected by policy decisions. If Georgia, for example, orders everyone to wear masks, that may significantly reduce infections, according to some recent studies,” Gu said.

He added that the model’s projections show a spike for Georgia around June and July, which appears as if it could be a direct result of lifting lockdown measures.

“Our projections with regards to state reopenings are what we think will happen, but there’s no data for us to work off of right now so we’ll have to wait a few weeks to see,” he said. “Small things — small policy changes — can make a huge impact.”

Gu said he plans to continue updating his model and tracking COVID-19 cases and deaths nationwide.

Not all Southeast states to see increases

While most states are projected to see an uptick in daily deaths as social distancing measures are relaxed this summer, the large increase in COVID-19 deaths per day for Georgia was not found in the predictions made for some other states in the Southeast region — at least through the modeled period, which is until early August.

The other projections (estimates within wide-ranging projections):

• Alabama: Deaths per day will fall slightly from eight on May 1 to six by August 4, with total deaths reaching 844 by August 4.

• Arkansas: Deaths per day will remain somewhat steady, from two on May 1 to one by August 4, with total deaths reaching 183 by August 4.

• Florida: Deaths per day will fall from 37 on May 1 to 28 by August 4, with total deaths reaching 3,456 by August 4.

• Kentucky: Deaths per day will increase from eight on May 1 to 11 by August 4, with total deaths reaching 925 by August 4.

• Louisiana: Deaths per day will drop from 52 on May 1 to 29 by August 4, with total deaths reaching 5,102 by August 4. New Orleans has been viewed as a hot spot in the coronavirus crisis.

• Mississippi: Deaths per day will remain somewhat steady, shifting from eight on May 1 to nine by August 4, with total deaths reaching 890 by August 4.

• North Carolina: Deaths per day will fall slightly from 17 on May 1 to 14 by August 4, with total deaths reaching 1,500 by August 4.

• South Carolina: Deaths per day will remain somewhat steady, shifting from six on May 1 to seven by August 4, with total deaths reaching 669 by August 4.

• Tennessee: Deaths per day will decline from five on May 1 to one by August 4, with total deaths reaching 444 by August 4.

• Virginia: Deaths per day will fall slightly from 22 on May 1 to 19 by August 4, with total deaths reaching 1,972 by August 4.

• West Virginia: Deaths per day will remain somewhat steady, shifting from two on May 1 to three by August 4, with total deaths reaching 240 by August 4.

All of the projections were made as of Tuesday morning and are subject to change.

Source: CNN

5 Comments
  1. Undecider says

    Goes to show academics are in fact a bunch of smart sounding retards.

  2. stevek9 says

    Stop using ventilators, and results will improve a lot.

    1. ke4ram says

      Yep,,, good for higher death rates 7-8 out of 10 die. Great way to reduce the Senior population.

      1. David Bedford says

        They generally have multiple causes of death other than coronavirus.

    2. David Bedford says

      Then they will not get $39,000 per patient

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