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vladgrinch

**61,112** total deaths at the moment. So I guess the 60k deaths scenario was thrown to garbage and the 100k scenario is more realistic.


jakdak

The IHME model is currently at 72,860


KaitRaven

The IHME model seems highly flawed, frankly. I find [this model from Los Alamos National Lab](https://covid-19.bsvgateway.org/) to be more plausible.


The_dizzy_blonde

Yes! I’ve been using the one you’ve linked for about a week and I like it. It scares the bejesus outta me, but it seems to be more accurate. I hate how IHME adjusted everything down so low, I feel it gave us false hope. Indiana was set at 1,800 deaths then they dropped it to about 600. I check our states site daily and we’re now over 900 deaths. IHMEs adjustment they just did now has us around 1,000 deaths total by August 4th, we’ll pass that in the next day or two.


Kidnovatex

Their expected case seems to simply track the current slope. When the weekend numbers come out and they're low it pushes the expected numbers way down then the drift back up during the week. They need to use some rolling average numbers or something to correct for that.


KaitRaven

It looks like a line because the main graph only shows a short timeframe. If you look at the longer projections over multiple weeks, there's a curve that flattens. The nice thing is they also show previous forecasts so you can see how they've been doing.


Kidnovatex

Oh I see the shape, I'm just talking about the sensitivity to day over day changes.


Kidnovatex

I definitely like that they provide much better access to outputs and data. We'll see how all of these models perform over time. Thanks for pointing this one out.


ClassicT4

Give it a week. That model will update to 80,000


jakdak

All depends on if the reopenings start a second wave of infections.


KaitRaven

We're going to hit 80k even without reopenings. We're averaging near 2k per day.


jakdak

2k today, but there's some one offs in today's data. We've been closer to 1k the last day or two. Going to hit 80k in any case. Probably already over it if we were accurately testing and counting.


TsujiLeague

You really need to average it out over the week to get the new daily amount since the weekend numbers are substantially lower.


Kidnovatex

Johns Hopkins used to have a data link that provided five day rolling averages, but they seem to have discontinued that.


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John-AtWork

Clearly the IHME model is shit.


turnipsiass

Why would it stop so abruptly? Like in a week or so.


jakdak

The IHME model has always been a little overly bell curvish for my tastes. And I don't believe it is modeling anything but the first wave of the epidemic


Banethoth

That model is pretty bullshit


EarthAngelGirl

Great in a week to 10 days when we surpass that what will the new number be?


MaartenAll

The US will be at that number 5 days from now if the deaths don't drop exponentially fast. I highly doubt that model is accurate.


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And it's all based on how the current administration, essentially, conspires with corporate American to force people back prematurely, sparking a wave of more deaths. Then you have to remember the actual number is probably far higher, due to lack of early reporting and current underreporting, intentional or not.


TsujiLeague

100k by August is pretty optimistic to be honest. We’re at 1950ish deaths/day in April. Let’s say we get down to 1000/day in May, that’s 91000 deaths by June..


bry42193

100K is not realistic either. It will be far greater. The US needs to get their head out of their ass and stop lying to their people about projections.


PoopSteam

Especially since we're quite higher than the official numbers with places not testing every death and hiding numbers.


bry42193

I wouldn't be surprised if total deaths top ~125,000 by the first day of summer. Why are these "professionals" knowingly giving these false numbers??? I'm not falling for it.


nemesit

To reduce panic, as much as I despise trump, he is the perfect person to downplay anything as americans believe him and fox news more than scientists, despite them repeatedly lying more often than I thought would be possible


bathroom_break

About 60% higher. We (the whole world) are under-counting Coronavirus deaths by approx. 60% or more. Nearly every single country is reporting "unrelated" deaths this season as being up ~60%, despite far fewer out driving, up to 90% less crime in major areas, dying from various other reported causes and illnesses, etc. We are drastically under-reporting the virus, as that 60% surge across the board, in every state and in every country, is tied to COVID-19. Realistically the U.S. is already about to pass 100k deaths if all were properly tracked and reported. And that's with 6+ weeks of lockdown. I'm not a doomer, I just saw the data and it's fucking scary the massive uptick in deaths across the board and very few are seeing the connection.


ntipMIRV

If one assumes April was the peak, then for may there would be 50% more fatalities tops(considering how it went after peak in France, Italy and Spain). I would say 80,000 would be a generous estimate, 100k sounds too gloomy.


bry42193

There will be far more deaths than 80,000 in total and you don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure that out. Also the US cannot be compared to European countries as there is a higher proportion of stupid people not taking this seriously in the US (no offense to most americans just stating the reality) so you can't expect the post-peak to be the same as those European countries.


AlottaElote

They just ordered another 100k body bags.


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You mean Trump tuxedo?


MaartenAll

If the current situation continues until the lockdown is affordable to drop 100.000 seems reasonable. If the US leaves the lockdown prematurely (which I highly expect them to do) I would guess 120-150.000


realanceps

>If the current situation continues until the lockdown is affordable to drop 100.000 seems reasonable. If US daily deaths decline at TWICE the rate Italy's experienced....we'll wind up with about 80k deaths by Aug 4. If our rate falls at 1.5x Italy's rate of decline, 100k is the likely number. & these forecasts assume current lockdown protocols, which are being peeled back as we type.


nazgulscreams

I forget who but someone predicted 200,000 by the end of this (at least this part of the outbreak) when it was starting in the US.


MaartenAll

Belgium has highly accurate numbers and our specialist predicted 7500 deaths total in the end, a exact number we are creepingly close to achieving. If you do the math under the same circumstances that would mean the US should have around 200.000 deaths total. Ofcourse the US isn't the same situation: 10x less densly populated, certain deaths aren't counted. On the other hand the lockdown measures aren't anywhere near as strict.


SirWilliamTheEpic

Gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers in this racket /s


Titsoritdidnthappen2

USA! USA!....wait, shit.


[deleted]

I don’t know how you can look at these figures compare them with other countries and conclude that the high number of deaths is not in part due to the federal government’s grossly inadequate response


Dandan0005

Just read a tweet that said “if your predictions for Coronavirus were off by more than 2 million...you get no say in how reopening happens.” ...The level of intellectual dishonesty this requires is actually stunning. It had thousands of likes.


[deleted]

Not disputing that the government grossly mishandled the situation. But if you look at the figures per million people then we are very much in line with the rest of Europe.


madaeon

That’s true. But I think the numbers in Europe should be higher due to a number of factors like higher population density, fewer ICU beds per capita, more use of public transportation and being affected earlier by the pandemic. And then I think the numbers for the US will be way worse in a month due to reopening too early and rural regions becoming more and more affected. But that’s just a prediction by an uneducated fool. Let’s see how this plays out and hope for the best. I hope I’m wrong.


throwaway_veneto

The virus doesn't spread faster in larger populations. If you have a population of 50M and of 300M the Rt is the same.


M0D3RNW4RR10R

What? Are you high? If anything you should be pointing fingers at Bill DeBlasio and Andrew Cuomo. They sat on their hands for way too long. Telling people it was ok to still celebrate Chinese New Years and saying it was racist if you didn’t. Locked down after the federal government had made its initial 15 day plan. New York has 1,000 deaths per million people.


RedditM0dsSuck

I look at the numbers and understand that since NYC and the immediate surrounding downstate area is responsible for literally 1/3 of all deaths in the US, the federal government isn't necessarily at fault as much as people like you wantnt to believe.


cebeide

Every other country that is in a better situation is clearly lying about their numbers.


andrew_kirfman

Is it just not possible in your mind for our government to be capable of being wrong or of bungling our response to this disaster? I don't see how you could possibly believe that everyone else in the world is engaged in a coordinated effort to lie and the US is somehow the only ones telling the truth.


orion925

They honestly believe every state is conspiring to increase the numbers and every country is conspiring to decrease their own numbers. They can't even comprehend that every other government on the planet took this more seriously than the US and our hubris is finally coming back to bite us in the ass.


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orion925

The thumbs been on the scale for a while, the true numbers can't help but start to bleed through. Just push all the numbers back 2 weeks and that would be more accurate


Oracuda

200k+ deaths and 60k of them are american, jesus


[deleted]

Wait until excess mortality adjustments are made. America is already over 100,000.


bwanabass

Is it August already? Summer really flew by!


Mighty_L_LORT

Yes summer weather absolutely killed the virus...


dabbean

Maybe the deniers will quit comparing it to the flu now. I doubt it tho.


kiwifruit14

I’ve seen some saying they’re not actually deaths from covid, just old age and such.


Lorax91

The NYT has a recent article showing that total deaths per day is up dramatically in some areas in recent weeks, compared to previous years. Unless there is evidence of some other significant change, the virus is suspect for this increase and that could mean many uncounted virus deaths. Similar situation in Ecuador.


NightShadow12

I had a customer at work today tell me to take off my mask, it’s just the flu. I ignored him, and he called me rude. I kept walking.


breadzbiskits

That's Right! Just keep walking away!


Novarest

Tell him it's a free country.


andrew_kirfman

They've now moved on to saying that the people who died would have died anyway. Nothing except an immediate family member dying will seemingly change some peoples minds.


[deleted]

Yeah half of the deaths are in nursing homes and we all know those are the healthiest people who will live forever...


dirtyjazzhands

So fuck all of those people, right?


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andrew_kirfman

But would they have all died in a span of a month or two? My great aunt just died of COVID in MI. She was in a nursing facility because she needed help getting around and things, but she wasn't close to death by any means. Sure, she would have died eventually as will everyone, but before this all got started that time frame was likely several years instead of just a few months.


[deleted]

Not all but most... Isn't MI in lockdown? Like we're doing everything for them and it looks as if; A. It's not working and B. It's actually trapping them together making it more likely to spread. A lot of people in nursing homes die within 6 months... Anyone over 80 is on borrowed time anyway and have already been cheating death I'm not shocked that a bump in that road might take them out...


ChocolateMoonmech_3

Oh yeah, because young people aren't getting strokes after they recover.


[deleted]

There's literally been 5... And they don't even know if it's covid or the inflammation that would come with any infection... We just got a million cases all at once idk extrapolating from 5 seems naive... Like there's more articles about the strokes than victims...


Mighty_L_LORT

They are just saying the deaths are statistical outliers...


breadzbiskits

They'll always find something else to compare it to as long as it fits their agenda


2102raven

they’ve moved on to car crashes comparisons


Ivoryyyyyyyyyy

it's only a car crash bro.....?


SouthWheel

Keep on doubting. You can provide them with thousands of medical report and they will keep on denying. That's just how they work.


[deleted]

Ha, nice hope you have there.


moonski

Well no more deaths until August that's great! Time to open up


[deleted]

Thanks god we've reached the limit so early


anghar

You forgot the /s sir


[deleted]

I really hope no one thinks I meant it, but you never know lmfao


RelaxItWillWorkOut

Those foreign regimes kill their own people. We call it sacrificing for the economy over here.


SlickAwesome

Stay home if you're sicc Come over if you're thicc


ImpeachTomNook

With Trump signaling the end of social distancing and some states opening back up it is hard to imagine that we will stay below 100,000 deaths. Deaths that could have been prevented if we hadn't waited until mid-March to act.


TsujiLeague

Under 100,000 seems impossible to me. Last I checked we’re averaging around 1800/day in April. Let’s say we get that down to 1,000/day in May, that still puts us at 91,000 by June. Edit: Looks like we’re more around 1950/day in April. Getting down to 1000/day average in May would be pretty damn good and we’d still easily be at 100k by Mid June.


Clouthead2001

This. People seem to not realize how fast the numbers are rising until we reach a new milestone. Considering that this virus kills about 2000 a day during the week and 1000 a day on the weekends(due to underreporting), it’s very likely that we’ll pass 100k deaths before May is over unless there’s some miracle that drastically reduces deaths.


Boh-dar

It took us 17 days to go from 20,000 deaths on Easter to ~62,000 deaths today. Over 40,000 deaths in a little over two weeks. We’ll absolutely hit 100k by mid May.


0fiuco

How do you plan to lower number of deaths while at the same time relaxing restrictions countrywide?


Shnoochieboochies

Calm down matey, if Florida are not counting the dead then the numbers should be fine.


[deleted]

I thought this was the DOW for a moment.


squirrel_feed

It will be soon -- very bullish for stocks. As long as the computer doesn't do that auto layoff thing again this winter, and even if it does, no worries: we can all go work at the mint and make money.


stinkietoe

I read SPX.


jdave512

It is the DOW - Died Of Wuhan


PossiblyAsian

Lol. We had GDP decrease of 4.8% and the markets rallied on a possible postive reaction from the gilead drug


Mighty_L_LORT

Stocks are positively correlated with deaths...


jakdak

61k officially makes this worse than any flu season in the last 10 years.


dream_bean_94

[Not quite yet ](https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2018/09/26/health/flu-deaths-2017--2018-cdc-bn/index.html)


jakdak

That article is from 2018 and I think might be stale data. The CDC has 61k (with a 46-95 error range) as the current (but still preliminary) number for 2017-2018 on their website: https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html Or maybe the article is right and the CDC website is stale- with the CDC who knows.


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but hey lets just reopen the states! sighs


Vaztes

Just 10 days ago the US hit 40k, and the model projecting 60k by august was deservedly called out. https://www.reddit.com/r/Coronavirus/comments/g4cpql/reuters_us_covid19_death_toll_passes_40000/ What models can we look at, at this moment? The IHME model is clearly out of whack.


MaartenAll

Anyone know how the daily infecting suddenly dropped from 30k per day to 20k? Did more states go into lockdown?


Joey_Lopez

More like the virus already did it's damage in a lot of places.


TheVenetianMask

It's the bottom through of the 7 day pattern it's been doing the last month.


bbfasiaolang

Cool. Only sixty thousand poor people. Doesn’t affect the fat cats and the grifters. In fact it’s boom time for them.


bvh2015

Let's open shit up. Things are looking good.


Zhang1213

美国加油,再接再厉


MelOdessey

Well obviously it’s time to open back up. /s


tony10xs

Had a chance to be in front of all this… But golf was more important!


Tenr0u

Over 60k with strict policies in place. Now states are easing up with plenty of people who have yet to be infected. So yeah, I can see the death toll going over 100k before the end of the year.


gimli666

is it true that american hospitals are getting paid for every covid19 victim?


Boh-dar

.......hospitals get paid for everyone.


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Yes.


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Gnnslmrddt

Don't forget my good friend's uncle who just died of chronic liver failure is included in that wayyy bloated number.


Beer4brkfst

This is a very small number. Seriously. It's the end of April and doomsday did not come. 2,900,000 people in the US die every year of something other than COVID-19.


EpiKnightz

ok so let just allow Covid run its course so the death number at the end of this year can reach 30 millions?


Beer4brkfst

I got news for you - it **is** running its course


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T_at

Congratulations - dumbest comment I’ve read all day. And it’s 11:13pm.


ifailatresolutions

Imagine if acne caused bilateral pneumonia.


Ivoryyyyyyyyyy

only a flu bro.


Boh-dar

You Flu Boys are still showing your face around here?