The Biden team has been pushing to wear masks again — even if one person is fully vaccinated — in areas where the delta variants are said to have “exploded” or in large numbers, which are said to cover most of the country.
-Dr. Nikarama (@nickaramaOG) July 30, 2021
But what does this mean? What counts as “substantial” or “high”, and these two categories they say will trigger blocking guidelines? These are the dark areas on the map.
Washington DC Just announced myself Two days ago there was a “significant” risk of the spread of the Wuhan coronavirus. Mayor Muriel Bowser issued a directive stating that everyone over the age of 2 must wear a mask indoors regardless of the vaccination situation. Bowser said she knew people “will accept this.” I won’t bet on it, even how incredibly free DC is.
But because of this, the White House and the House of Representatives (though not the Senate) are now wearing masks again.
NPR Explain the map I quoted above And how do they measure whether they have reached “substantial”, that is, the minimum threshold for triggering blocking guidance.
The data for this map comes from CDC and will be updated regularly. The color coding is based on two indicators: the number of new cases per 100,000 residents and the percentage of positive coronavirus tests within 7 days. (A high positive rate indicates that the number of infections in a place may be high and more testing is needed.)
If these two indicators show different levels of transmission in a given location, the CDC will choose the higher level. As of late July, nearly two-thirds of the country’s counties are experiencing large or high levels of transmission.
If there are 50 to 99 cases per 100,000 residents per week, or the positive rate in the past 7 days is between 8.0% and 9.9%, the CDC classifies the community as “mass transmission.”
Therefore, if there are 50 cases out of 100,000 cases, they consider this to be “substantial.” Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t understand the “substantial” of this.
In addition, there is one important thing missing here-when they talk about viruses, they always seem to be missing something. They are always talking about cases or testing positive. But what is really influential or really important is hospitalization and death. Everything else is part of more than 99% of the recovery, and there is no real tax on the system.
So, what are the current hospitalizations and deaths from the virus in Washington, DC? Let’s take a look at the statistics of DC yesterday.
Hospitalization where people are considered to be at a “significant” risk due to COVID in DC. pic.twitter.com/ybRlkyvPPB
-Dr. Nikarama (@nickaramaOG) July 30, 2021
Therefore, from a perspective, the total number of hospitalizations yesterday was 21. It’s almost not overwhelming, right?Just to let you know what this means in context, you can Look at recent months And scroll through how many people have been hospitalized every day since May 13, when Biden said that if you are vaccinated, you no longer need to wear a mask. Since May 13, it has been above 21 almost every other day. There are a few 20. But, for example, May ran between the 1960s and the 1990s.
This was May 13, when Biden dropped his mask and said that he didn’t need to wear the vaccine after being vaccinated. At that time, the total number of hospitalized people was 93, far more than 21. It has been continuously decreasing since May.
Biden said on May 13 that it is no longer necessary to wear a mask when vaccinating. pic.twitter.com/sxLR0sbuM7
-Dr. Nikarama (@nickaramaOG) July 30, 2021
What about death? Now, According to the CDC, The 7-day rolling average in Washington, DC is zero deaths and approximately 3 deaths in May. Therefore, in this statement, zero is now clearly equivalent to “substantial.”
According to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Washington, DC, the number of deaths exceeding the 7-day rolling average. zero. pic.twitter.com/aZaHCJmJdj
-Dr. Nikarama (@nickaramaOG) July 30, 2021
There is usually a delay factor between the infection and the increase in hospitalization/deaths.However, since the Delta variant, DC’s hospitalization numbers do not show that DC’s numbers have climbed Announced entering the U.S. in March, Or even since people started taking it seriously last month. This number has been declining since at least May.
In addition, Joe Biden made a very interesting comment I reported it before.
Biden defended the requirement of vaccinated Americans to wear masks, while admitting that the United States is “unlikely to see a similar increase in hospitalizations or deaths.” pic.twitter.com/w86n2jsjKh
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) July 29, 2021
So if we are not talking about a comparable rise in hospitalizations or deaths, what are we talking about here? Why did we come back suddenly, as if we were talking about last year? What happened here?
