The U.S. new cases 7-day rolling average are 3.6 % LOWER than the 7-day rolling average one week ago. U.S. hospitalizations due to COVID-19 are now 13.3 %
LOWER than the rolling average one week ago. U.S. deaths due to coronavirus are now 2.6 %
HIGHER than the rolling average one week ago. Today s posts include:
U.S. Coronavirus New Cases are 58,812
U.S. Coronavirus hospitalizations are at 46,738
U.S. Coronavirus deaths are at 1,566
U.S. Coronavirus immunizations have been administered to 23.0 % of the population
The 7-day rolling average rate of growth of the pandemic shows new cases were little changed, hospitalizations little changed, and deaths marginally improved [note: this is a sign of trend reversal - could the new variants be impacting COVID case growth?>
Coronavirus Disease Weekly News 28February 2021
The news posted last week for the coronavirus 2019-nCoV (aka SARS-CoV-2), which produces COVID-19 disease, has been surveyed and some important articles are summarized here. The articles are more or less organized with general virus news and anecdotes first, then stories from around the US, followed by an increased number of items from other countries around the globe. Economic news related to COVID-19 is found here.
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Summary:
It appears that new Covid cases and Covid deaths have stopped going down in the US; I say appears because it s possible that the apparent uptick early this week might have been due to underreporting of cases last week, when there were widespread power outages in Texas and other states in the wake of an unprecedented cold wave. For the 7 days ending Saturday, reported new cases were only down 0.3% from the prior week
ANSWER:
It depends on the severity of the COVID-19 case. However, our experts say that it s generally true.
SOURCES:
Dr. Panagis Galiatstatos- Pulmonary and critical care medicine physician, assistant professor in the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Medicine at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, director of the Tobacco Treatment Clinic
Dr. Michael Matthay- Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco
PROCESS:
Lots of people on social media are talking about the long-term effects of COVID-19.
One tweet from a woman who says she s a trauma surgeon and ICU doctor, got a lot of buzz online.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but “post-Covid” lungs look worse than ANY type of terrible smoker’s lungs we’ve ever seen.