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
Tennessee finds itself at 478 deaths per million making it 26th 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.
Tennessee’s deaths and hospitalizations have not followed the same path as case increases and, instead, the state has stayed below 200 people per million in hospitals, which isn’t anywhere near increased case numbers.
“Tennessee has less than 1/3 the death rate of Massachusetts, and less than 1/4 that of New York. Hospitalizations have never topped 200/million, and deaths/day/million have never exceeded 5,” the commentary states. “Tennessee is currently experiencing a case surge, though while hospitalizations have gone up, deaths have actually decreased by 50%. This puts Tennessee's current daily deaths/million in line with those of Massachusetts, 3/day/million, despite having theoretically 3x the amount of cases. Tennessee has done a good job managing lives and livelihoods, keeping hospitalizations low, deaths even lower, and all managing a sufficiently open economy to have a 6.3% unemployment rate.”
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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