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the spread of coronavirus across the nation. On a day-to-day level, the deaths seem to be somewhat

stable. We've seen around 1,000 deaths for the last three days, as well as a lot of last week.

We have seen hospitalizations starting to slightly decline in some places like Texas and Arizona, so it's possible that we've already hit peak there. In Florida, it doesn't look like they've hit peak yet. Hospital capacity is not being threatened so far as I can tell from the statistics in places like Florida or Texas or Arizona, which means that the curve was indeed flattened, nor are we seeing the sorts of death rates that we saw in New York. In New York, we were seeing 600 to 700 deaths every single day in New York City alone. In Arizona and Florida and Texas and California, you're seeing on the upper end about 150 deaths a day, which obviously is tragic and horrifying. And that number, if it were to last the entire year, would be absolutely stunning, right? Then you would see 35,000 deaths in a lot of these places. But we have not reached New York epidemic levels as of yet. So the media continue to focus in on the fact that this thing is spreading uncontrolled across the country. And that is true. I mean, the fact is the number of positive cases continues to increase. Yesterday, the U.S. shattered its single-day record for new cases with more than 75,600 cases. According to the New York Times, this was the

11th time in the past month that the record has been broken. The number has more than doubled since

June 24th when the country registered 37,014 cases after a lull in the outbreak had kept the previous

record 36,738 standing for two months. Now, in reality, is it possible? We saw many, many more infections like this in the early stages. Absolutely. But testing was not ramped up to nearly the extent that it is now. So it's quite possible that, for example, the death rates were exactly the same today as they wore back during the New York days. It's just that the testing capacity was not nearly what it was. So the denominator in the deaths over infections

rate was just not correct. It's possible the denominator was way larger than it was originally

purported to be. In the previous single-day record, 68,241 cases was announced last Friday.

Thursday's record included more than 5,000 cases in Bexar County, Texas, which contains San Antonio. There was a backlog in test reporting. One of the weird things about the stats here is there are these backlogs that sometimes get reported late. So you'll see occasionally a very odd day where a huge number of deaths are tallied. And you're like, whoa, did just a bunch of people die?

That day is like, no, that's a backlog and that's being reported. Now, you're seeing this with some of the cases that are being reported. You're also seeing cases where possible COVID is being reported as probable or real COVID. You've seen cases in Florida where hospitals are reporting only positive results, which ticks up the percent positive rate. Now, does any of this change the underlying narrative that COVID is actually quite prevalent across the country and is apparently

rising in terms of case number? No, of course, that's true. The question at this point is, number one,

does it overwhelm the health care system? And number two, are we actually seeing a declining rate

of death? Now, again, a declining rate of death with heavy levels of infection is still very dangerous. Let's say that this thing had a point to death rate, right? About twice as deadly as the flu. Let's say that that was the actual death rate on this thing. And let's say that it's three times as infectious as the flu. Well, then you're talking about something that will end up with, you know, six times as many deaths. It's three times as infectious. it's twice as deadly as the flu. And so you end up with, you know, 250,000 deaths. That's a horrifying, horrifying thing. But the bottom line to all of this is that nobody knows anything. And one of the narratives, the media seems to be driving is that we know the answer to this. We know the answer to this. And when everyone else points to the fact that nobody really

knows the answer to this, that we've seen the same policies adopted by Democrats and Republicans

in different states to different outcomes that Georgia opened the exact same time as Colorado,

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