No. Rates change and testing increases of course. Mr. Trump lies, saying more testing equals more cases; it's like suggesting if we stop testing for cancer, there will be less cancer. It's rubbish.
So which is it? The rate has not changed or it has. Its a simple question. What was the positive test rate to hospitalization rate in May compared to now? Is it up or down? A simple question you failed to answer.
No.
Ok, show us the numbers please
Doesn't matter; number of cases, hospitalizations and deaths have gone up. And will continue to.
Of course it matters. Are sick patients more or less likely to need vents to try and stay alive?
Yes, unlike Trump, doctors learn, adapt and use facts to do better
This has nothing to do with Trump and no one said it did, but thanks for admitting in this case at least we are doing better.
Yes, same as above. Got nothing to do with Trump.
You were not asked if Trump played a part in getting therapeutics to market, but now that you mention it how can you discount his hand helping the process along?
There are no vaccines yet. They are still in testing. Oh, and Trump told us we'd have one or more by a 'special day' (November 3rd), another lie.
You are like a broken record skipping on the intro...But you failed to answer the question. Are we closer to having a vaccine now that when the virus started? How hard of a question was that? A simple yes or now will do.
The last question makes little sense, we are seeing higher number of deaths since the beginning of the pandemic overall. And it's not over. In fact, it's getting worse, despite the lies you also believe are just opinions (we are rounding the corner). WE ARE NOT.
Its really a simple question but I forget who I was questioning. How many people who test positive and did not die, compared to the number of people who tested positive and died at the start of the pandemic? But lets also look at your answer.
Higher numbers of deaths overall since the start of the pandemic.
Deaths from what? We are talking about Covid. Deaths per week have fallen and not risen since the peak back in the spring.
I'm sorry the facts have ruined your life. I'm more sorry the deliberate malpractice of the current administration has produced a country with 230 thousand dead, the leader of the world in both infections and death.
You are a hoot when you get testy Andrew. Last I looked my life is doing just fine, clealry not ruined. You don't like what Trump did but your new choice for President, based on his own words and the words of his surrogates early in the pandemic would not have done any better. The fact is we don't know if any leader whould have had better luck in the USA.
Clearly Trump has reasons he can use to use if he wants to justify his opinion that we are "rounding the corner".
We treat patients with the virus better now.
We have better drugs and more are on the way.
Vaccines have been fast tracked and are nearing the finish line.
Less people who test positive go to the hospital.
We put fewer sick people on vents.
More sick people recover.
Less people who test positive die.
More people should have immunity.
Yes we still have a bunch of people getting the virus, not only here but worldwide. Its not over. But wwe might have turned that corner, when you consider where we started.