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Yavin4

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2. "The number of cases and rate of exponential growth is similar to this time last year..." What?

Sat Jul 17, 2021, 11:05 AM

Jul 2021

July 15, 2020, the 7-day moving average for cases in the U.S.: 66,869

July 15, 2021, the 7-day moving average for cases in the U.S.: 27,806

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrendscases

More importantly, cases are not the metric to watch. The vaccines never promised zero cases. Vaccinations are about limiting the negative outcomes from being positive. For example, look at deaths from a year ago:

July 15, 2020, the 7-day moving average for deaths in the U.S.: 870

July 15, 2021, the 7-day moving average for cases in the U.S.: 223

https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailytrendscases

If you are looking for zero covid cases, that may never happen. We have to learn to live with it.

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US CV-19 Fifth Wave [View all] Shermann Jul 2021 OP

Naturally acquired immunity doesn't seem to be much of a path. Phoenix61 Jul 2021 #1

I'll have to read the study Shermann Jul 2021 #3

I suppose protection could be measured with "challenge" studies Yonnie3 Jul 2021 #4

It can be objectively measured with serum studies. Pobeka Jul 2021 #14

"The number of cases and rate of exponential growth is similar to this time last year..." What? Yavin4 Jul 2021 #2

Well we are at the very beginning of the wave Shermann Jul 2021 #5

Yea, case wise we are already half way there. LisaL Jul 2021 #6

You said... Yavin4 Jul 2021 #7

Agree 100%!! beaglelover Jul 2021 #8

I think you're being to literal to what they're saying. Johonny Jul 2021 #10

Exactly. LisaL Jul 2021 #12

I posted one statistic (daily cases) and cited it (JHU) Shermann Jul 2021 #13

The US had nearly 41,000 new cases yesterday VMA131Marine Jul 2021 #9

Mother Nature is going to put on quite a show. roamer65 Jul 2021 #11