The United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform will issue a subpoena seeking information on Humica and Imbruvica. | Pixabay
The United States House of Representatives Committee on Oversight and Reform will issue a subpoena seeking information on Humica and Imbruvica. | Pixabay
New Mexico finds itself at 474 deaths per million making it 25th in the country when it comes to COVID-related deaths, according to the COVID Tracking Project.
The project found that when it comes to COVID-19 data, people have been looking at decontextualized data, which is causing hysteria like children staying out of school and businesses shutting down.
New Mexico’s deaths and hospitalizations have not followed the same path as case increases and, instead, the state has stayed below 100 people per million in hospitals, which isn’t anywhere near increased case numbers.
“New Mexico is another of those states that is not being allowed to bask in their success at crushing the curve,” the commentary states. “Despite having a death rate that is 1/3 that of Massachusetts, and 1/4 that of New York, hospitalizations that never exceeded 100/million, and daily deaths/million that peaked at 5/day/million, New Mexico is saddled with the 44th worst unemployment rate.
“No doubt the population is being terrorized with "sky rocketing" cases, and a "doubling" of hospitalizations. But both of those undermine the true success in flattening the curve. New Mexico's hospitalizations are just barely higher than those of Massachusetts. Where cases are in theory 3x higher than those in Massachusetts, deaths are those of Massachusetts, just 1.5 deaths/day/million. And like so many other states, cases are not tracking remotely closely to deaths or hospitalizations.”
Since Sept. 15, there has been a significant increase in testing for COVID-19 at 55 percent, which has also led to an increase in positive cases, leading many to assume the country is heading into a third wave of infections and deaths.
Emily Burns with The Pragmatist writes that it’s important to put the new numbers into context so that people will make wise decisions regarding what to do about the pandemic. She writes that in May, cases were tracked at nearly the same as hospitalizations. She notes that deaths and hospitalizations are more reliable data when tracking than cases are.
With COVID-19 testing up 70 percent since the second wave, Burns points out that the surge in testing is responsible for the increased number of new cases seen across the nation, not an increased infection rate many have been led to believe.
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