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
Massachusetts finds itself at 1440 deaths per million making it 49th 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.
Massachusetts' deaths and hospitalizations have not followed the same path as case increases and, instead, at its peak the state had 560 people per million in hospitals, which isn’t anywhere near increased case numbers.
“We are one of the healthiest, wealthiest, youngest, whitest states, with the best medical care in the country,”the commentary states. “And yet we have the 3rd highest death rate in the country. Worse than Louisiana, by about 15%, Louisiana which is either 49th or 50th for poorest, least educated, least healthy, states in the country. At the peak, we were using 560 hospital beds/million, where nationally only 180/million were in use. And then there's our unemployment, 45th worst at 9.5%--for months it was the worst at 16.1%--and public schools in Boston are not open at all. And now we find ourselves in a social deep freeze, waiting for a vaccine.”
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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