{"id":209985,"date":"2020-07-08T06:03:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T06:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=209985"},"modified":"2020-07-11T06:36:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-11T06:36:53","slug":"covid-19-is-close-to-losing-its-epidemic-status-in-the-u-s-according-to-the-cdc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=209985","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 is close to losing its epidemic status in the U.S., according to the CDC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniel Payne \u2013 Just the News July 4, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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Coronavirus deaths in the country have nearly reached a level where the virus will cease to qualify as an epidemic under Centers for Disease Control and Prevention rules, the federal agency reported on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n

The CDC\u00a0qualifies a disease outbreak as an “epidemic” if the number of deaths attributable to the disease exceeds a certain percentage of total deaths per week. That threshold for pneumonia, influenza and COVID-19\u00a0fluctuates slightly depending on the time of year, ranging from around 7% at the height of flu season to around 5% during less virulent months.<\/span><\/p>\n

CDC data indicate<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0that deaths from those ailments began skyrocketing in the country around the second week of March, hitting a peak around early May and then plummeting quickly after that.<\/span><\/p>\n

The latest data<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u00a0show that the percentage of deaths\u00a0in the country attributable to those factors\u00a0had\u00a0as of the last week in June reached its lowest point since the end of last year, becoming “equal to the [current] epidemic threshold of 5.9%,” the CDC said.<\/span><\/p>\n

The agency notes that the official tally of deaths\u00a0“will likely change as more death certificates are processed, particularly for recent weeks.” Yet the number of deaths attributable to COVID-19, pneumonia and influenza have been declining for 10 straight weeks, the agency said on its website,\u00a0suggesting COVID-19 may cease to qualify as an epidemic\u00a0in the next few weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n

The welcome news comes as fear over a “second wave” of the virus has gripped the U.S., with some states experiencing fresh surges of COVID-19 along with increased hospitalizations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Though infections are significantly up in some places, deaths throughout the country have remained flat<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, due likely to several factors including a younger cohort of infections as well as improved treatment methods.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 has declined for 10 straight weeks. Cue a “second wave\u201d soon?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=209985"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209985\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209989,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209985\/revisions\/209989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=209985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=209985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=209985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}