US reports 3,100 COVID-19 deaths in one day, surpassing previous record by 20 percent

[left-of-center2012]

The U.S. saw its highest single-day coronavirus death toll to date on Wednesday with 3,157. The number was 20 percent higher than the previous single-day high of 2,603 on April 15, and brings the total U.S. death toll to 273,799, according to data from Johns Hopkins University.

The record high came the same day new hospitalizations exceeded 100,000 for the first time ever and newly reported infections hit 200,000 for only the second time, according to the COVID Tracking Project. Of those hospitalized, 19,396 were intensive care patients, another new high.

These numbers likely do not reflect the number of new infections spurred by Thanksgiving gatherings, The Wall Street Journal noted, since hospitalizations typically come within weeks of the corresponding infections.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield warned Wednesday that the winter months would put extreme pressure on the health care system. Public health experts have repeatedly warned cold weather will likely cause infections to surge as people gather inside.

"The reality is December and January and February are going to be rough times. I actually believe they're going to be the most difficult time in the public health history of this nation, largely because of the stress that's going to be put on our health care system," Redfield said.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/528519-us-marks-record-number-of-covid-19-deaths-in-one-day

[beachbumbob]

1. big driver of that number as the Tday holiday weekend, Today;s and Friday;s number

will offer better clarity but its bad as hospitalization levels are now maxing out our systems all across america

[Klaralven]

5. The 7-day moving average is still lower than just before Thanksgiving

So this is largely catch up -- either delayed reporting of deaths or delayed deaths due to not wanting to unplug patients during the holiday weekend. Next of kin may also have been unavailable for end of life decisions.

[beachbumbob]

6. many states would have data delay based on the 4 day weekend but other states not so much, Illinois

reporting had SOME catch up but the new record set for deaths also was followed with new record of hospitalizations. I don't expect this is going to get better and set the data point as of yesterday for next 7 days and the percent change will be mindblowing for the 7 day moving average

[malaise]

2. But but but

Killa Con said it would all be over on November 4 - he said we wouldn't hear anything more about this hoax.

[Botany]

3. That is an American death every 28 seconds.

Thanx Donny.

[DeminPennswoods]

4. Once again, we are all held hostage

by our dysfunctional for profit healthcare delivery system. In a country of 330M people, having 100,000 (.03%) needing some degree of hospitalization should not cause everyone's life to grind to a stop.

Sadly, in a few months when the epidemic is in the rearview mirror, we will go right back to the idea that the way we deliver healthcare and private, employer-based health insurance are just fine and dandy.

[beachbumbob]

7. we barely have enough doctors and nurses at this point and NO country has a healthsystem geared

for a fucking pandemic. Our problem from the get go is NOT healthcare but a lack of national pandemic plan. The US could easily take on this pandemic and be on the other side of it

[DeminPennswoods]

10. From the get-go, every move has been in service of

"saving hospitals". I don't know about you, but all I hear are woe-is-me stories about hospitals running out of beds and overworked nurses, doctors, etc. There has never been any action taken in service of anyone's health as an end result in and of itself. Every action has been about hospital capacity.

There are plenty of RNs/LPNs in the US who have stepped away from working in a hospital because of pay and hours. They've opted to work in home health care, hospice, LTC and so on or do something else altogether because of that.

Where I live the 3 small hospitals that served the community are now gone. One converted to a nursing home and the other 2 were closed by bankruptcy. We now have 1 hospital serving our entire county. That has happened all over the US because of financial pressures, not because there was no need. It would be pretty helpful now if those closed hospitals had stayed open wouldn't it?

[beachbumbob]

12. I know of NO employed doctors or nurses any where, the ones who are by choice based on current

risk. Not really following your rationale, if you don't believe "the woe is me stuff", you are not paying attention. There is NO woe is me, its a pandemic and the system was never design an out of control Federal lack of response, period. I have 2 daughters in ERs nursing and a niece who is a doctor and they are all on the verge of walking away

[DeminPennswoods]

13. Your relatives are overwhelmed because of the system

we have here in the US for healthcare delivery and services.

Let's face it, a bad flu season can and does overwhelm hospitals, too.

[bdamomma]

8. can we call it what it is

CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY.

[uponit7771]

9. Shhhhhit, this takes my calculations 10 days early ... shhhhhhit. If this baselines at 2.5k by mid

... Dec then we're in a world of hurt around here

[BobTheSubgenius]

11. I haven't done the arithmetic, because I'm just too beaten down for that, just now.

But I bet this is right around the daily average for US combat deaths in WW2.

I can't remember who it was, but not long ago - a few weeks, at most - a medical professional said that the indicators said that the peak won't be reached until the daily death toll was 3000, or even 4000. That awful benchmark has been reached in what seems like VERY short order.

Whatever you do, don't start watching I Am Legend, 28 Days After or Walking Dead. Doing so will make this catastrophe seem much more normal than it should.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

14. Any evidence that any GOPer death cult members are waking up yet?

[Ms. Toad]

15. I haven't seen 3000+ deaths for Wednesday from anyplace I trust -

and the COVID tracking project, itself, only reports 2733 for Wednesday (in line with Worldometers, which reports 2876)

https://covidtracking.com/data

That doesn't detract from the general concern that we are headed in the wrong direction.

[mvd]

16. I'm even afraid to go out

I have a friend that I usually see once a week or maybe twice a week for rides. I and my mom do not have a car. I can’t talk politics with her (the election result hasn’t come up once) but she does wear a mask and wash her hands. I still should be careful since she’s a real estate agent and seeing clients.

PA had over 11,000 new cases today and 187 new deaths reported! Yikes!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. For comparison, 9/11 was 2,996 deaths. . . . nt

[Buckeye_Democrat]

18. I suspect it will pass 5,000 per day before Spring.

The death rate for hospitalized Covid patients was estimated at 7% to 8% in early November, a huge improvement from earlier in the year.

Now there's over 100,000 people hospitalized for Covid, with no signs of infections slowing. So it's likely that the number of hospitalized patients will increase as a percentage of them continue to die.

5,000 deaths per day might be a low estimate, actually, but I decided to be wildly optimistic about continuously improving treatments and outcomes.

[GB_RN]

19. We Could See 5k

Before the end of the year: After the Thanksgiving travel, the weeks of persistent, 100-150k+ per day new cases, it certainly won’t be long.

I’m a nurse and back in the spring the hospital ICUs in the hospital where I was working were overwhelmed. It’s way worse now...

[Buckeye_Democrat]

20. Yep, it wouldn't surprise me at all.

Looks like we're headed for all-time highs for both new cases and deaths today, per Worldometer.


Thank you for hanging in there with your job! Let's all hope that many of the dummies in this country will at least get vaccinated ASAP, when available.

[keithbvadu2]

21. More new cases and deaths... 'almost nothing' acc to the Trump family.

More new cases and deaths... 'almost nothing' acc to the Trump family.

[NurseJackie]

22. There are only 1440 minutes in a day. That more than death every 30 seconds in the US.

[bucolic_frolic]

23. America will suffer fallout from covid for generations

Even if the ultimate death rate is held to 1.2% or so, we're looking at more than a million fatalities, tens of millions with long term health consequences if not shortened life expectancy, millions disabled.

Some hoax, ain't it?

The economic consequences unfathomable. Pumping up asset prices with Fed injections are helping us? People can't pay their bills and inflation will rock when any recovery ensues. The US dollar will be toast.

Sitting here with a dozen of the heaviest donuts ever, used as a prop to wonder what to do. Embrace the world and risk catastrophe? Hunker down? If we're lucky vaccinations will be 60% completed by July. Or so.

People need support dealing with the fallout from covid and from Trump.