Year over year Apr-Oct 2021 US COVID-19 cases are up 71% from 9.02m to 15.45m; deaths are down 14% from 226,208 to 193,877.
Are cases up so much because vaccinated people keep spreading it asymptomatically?
Why is the white tail deer population in the US so badly infected now when the Chicoms couldn't find any infected animals to blame in the wet market in Wuhan in early 2020?
Are the deaths down because of vaccines? Better clinical practices in hospital? Monoclonal antibodies? A less deadly variant? Fewer vulnerable older people?
In California to date, just 10% of the cases have been 65+ years of age, but those account for 71% of the deaths, down from 74% at the beginning of May.
The number of people who received retirement benefits from the Social
Security Administration rose 900,000 to 46.4 million in March, the
smallest year-over-year gain since April 2009. ... the year-over-year change appears to reflect excess deaths. About
447,000 people who died from the virus were 65 or older, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or about 80% of total deaths.
