The sad state of affairs is the numbers are only going to go up. I don’t know whether the worst affected states are going to get a handle on things. They certainly may well do so.
But who knows. The holiday season is upon us. I don’t even want to think about the potential of spreading, because red state, sloppy and incompetent?
How confident are the public safety people in red states?
@mapto @bewitchedmind Ironically, 2020 may have been a good year (if you don't like measles) due to Covid-19. At least in Germany, measles cases were down by 85 percent from 2019 to 2020. It is quite plausible that the measures taken against Covid helped keeping measles down, too.
Therefore it can be assumed that 2020 was chosen because it makes the contrast to actual numbers look really bad.
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Y is logarithmic. Here, different scale.
source: https://www.cdc.gov/measles/data-research/index.html
Quite different view.
Measles cases in the United States are currently at a genuinely serious level. However, this graphic is misleading because it frames the increase relative to 2020, when measles cases collapsed to just 13 due to COVID-19 lockdowns, reduced travel, masking, and disrupted reporting. By comparison, the U.S. recorded roughly 370 measles cases in 2018 and about 1,275 cases in 2019, which was the highest pre-pandemic year in decades. Current case counts are therefore high and comparable to past outbreak peaks, but not unprecedented when viewed against the broader pre-COVID historical context.(Data source: ourworldindata.org/grapher/num…)
Measles cases in the United States are currently at a genuinely serious level. However, this graphic is misleading because it frames the increase relative to 2020, when measles cases collapsed to just 13 due to COVID-19 lockdowns, reduced travel, masking, and disrupted reporting. By comparison, the U.S. recorded roughly 370 measles cases in 2018 and about 1,275 cases in 2019, which was the highest pre-pandemic year in decades. Current case counts are therefore high and comparable to past outbreak peaks, but not unprecedented when viewed against the broader pre-COVID historical context.(Data source: ourworldindata.org/grapher/num…)
GhostOnTheHalfShell
in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum • • •The sad state of affairs is the numbers are only going to go up. I don’t know whether the worst affected states are going to get a handle on things. They certainly may well do so.
But who knows. The holiday season is upon us. I don’t even want to think about the potential of spreading, because red state, sloppy and incompetent?
How confident are the public safety people in red states?
DonCC
in reply to GhostOnTheHalfShell • • •smfh
so proudly ignorant that they risk their children's lives...
bewitchedmind
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in reply to Martin Ruskov • • •@mapto @bewitchedmind
Ironically, 2020 may have been a good year (if you don't like measles) due to Covid-19. At least in Germany, measles cases were down by 85 percent from 2019 to 2020. It is quite plausible that the measures taken against Covid helped keeping measles down, too.
Therefore it can be assumed that 2020 was chosen because it makes the contrast to actual numbers look really bad.
Martin Ruskov
in reply to Axel van Bergen • • •@Axelotl @bewitchedmind I deleted my comment because I saw others sharing timelines showing exactly what you say
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