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Virginia finds itself at 252 deaths per million making it 8th 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.
Virginia’s deaths and hospitalizations have not followed the same path as case increases and, instead, the state has stayed between 200 people per million in hospitals to nearly 200 per million, which isn’t anywhere near increased case numbers.
“West Virginia has a death rate that is less than 1/5 that of Massachusetts, and 1/7 that of New York. Hospitalizations have remained extremely flat, and never exceeded 200/million,” the commentary states. “Daily Deaths/million have only reached 6 at a peak in mid-September. Since that time, West Virginia has seen increasing cases, but only very modestly increasing hospitalizations. At the same time, deaths have been decreasing, such that now West Virginia's daily deaths/million is in line with Massachusetts, despite having ostensibly nearly 3x the amount of cases. West Virginia's unemployment rate, on the other hand leaves quite a bit to be desired at 8.6%, 42nd in the country.”
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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