Even though new coronavirus infections are rising in America and around the world, new coronavirus deaths are largely flat, a trend largely missing from most mainstream media coverage.
Experts say the fact that new coronavirus deaths appear to remain flat is driven by more younger patients getting infected and recovering amid [economic] reopenings as the worst of the pandemic passes.
On Wednesday evening, the Washington Post issued a breaking news email alert headlined "New coronavirus cases in the U.S. soar to highest single-day total."
"Across the United States," reported the Post, "more than 36,000 new infections were reported by state health departments on Wednesday — surpassing the previous single-day record of 34,203 set on April 25."
Yet the article failed to mention that even while new infections are on the rise, new COVID-19 deaths are not.
Widespread innumeracy cannot be the reason that nearly every news source speaks almost only about new infections. They want to scare us.
How much better do we feel to know that the number of infections are hitting new records but the death toll remains flat? That is, we are getting far better at fighting and winning against the virus (and it is not the masks, Karen).
I hate that this virus kills people, but we are not dying in the streets. Diseases suck. Some of them kill people. But we are a strong people and have survived much, much (much!) worse.
Back to work!