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
North Carolina finds itself at 413 deaths per million making it 19th 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.
North Carolina’s deaths and hospitalizations have not followed the same path as case increases and, instead, the state has stayed below 125 people per million in hospitals and an average death rate of 3 deaths per million per day, which isn’t anywhere near increased case numbers.
“North Carolina is another one who really does have an exemplary coronavirus record. A death rate that is less than 1/3 of Massachusetts, and 1/4 that of New York,” the commentary states. “Hospitalizations never exceeded 125/million. Daily deaths/million have never gone above 3, and remain now inline with Massachusetts. Cases have ostensibly increased by 2-fold, but hospitalizations and deaths have remained flat. Unemployment is 7.3%, just slightly above the national average. North Carolina is currently pausing, which does not seem merited given their low numbers.”
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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