14 months after 1st case, Maharashtra Covid-19 situation is still grim
The fresh fatalities pushed the state s cumulative death toll to 8,615, while its overall case tally rose to 12,65,439
Saturday May 8, 2021 11:02 PM, IANS
Mumbai: Exactly 14 months after Maharashtra got its first two Covid-19 cases (March 9, 2020), the states overall case tally on Saturday crossed the 5 million-mark while fatalities shot past the 75,000-level, although the situation in Mumbai remained positive, health officials said here.
Compared to 898 deaths reported on
Friday, the state s fatalities went down to 864 on Saturday, taking the state s overall death toll to 75,277, the worst in the country.
The state on Saturday reported 53,605 new cases, much lower than the record high of 68,631 cases recorded on April 18, mounting the state s overall tally past the 50 lakh-mark to 50,53,336.
days. it is not as high as it was in february, but we are clearly seeing a rise. what we are seeing is a rise in hospitalizations, right. we see this is the change in new coronavirus. hospitalizations, seven-day average. we had been dropping most of the year, now all of a sudden we re seeing the rise. that is far more worse. we talk about cases, and that s one thing. that s symptomatic, asymptomatic. this is people getting sick. more people are get bting sick,o sick they have to be hospitalized. the rate is increasing pretty quickly at this point. what do we know about the age of people getting sick, harry? right. look, these are the cases. this is a percentage of all coronavirus cases. this is the big take away, right. those under 50, they did makeup the clear majority of new cases back in december of 2020 at 65%. but now we see them rising to 72% in june of 2021. the idea that it s basically this old person disease really does not bear itself out in the numbers. it s, in fact, th
explain this. i mean, this is insane, right. look at this. june coronavirus deaths by sheer vaccination, .8% of those who died in june were fully vaccinated. look at that. 99.2% were unvaccinated. my goodness gracious, could you find a clearer statistic than this, that the vaccines work? i don t believe you can. this is why it s so important for folks to get vaccinated because we know they work, and this number clearly, clearly shows it. and we see it in the numbers as well. the younger age groups, a lot fewer of them are vaccinated and a lot more of them have higher cases and higher hospitalizations. harry, you say the number in politics, in weather, in sports, baseball, a 99.2% you never see it. you never see this type of number. you never see such clear correlations. i wish when i ran my statistical program and data we would see numbers like this because it shows such a clear correlation. you try and get numbers that