What the New York Times isn’t telling you as it scaremongers about a ‘sixth’ COVID wave

[Kamaji]

What the New York Times isn’t telling you as it scaremongers about a ‘sixth’ COVID wave

By Steve Cuozzo
July 14, 2022

The New York Times is perplexed — and seemingly annoyed — that despite a “sixth wave” of COVID-19 in New York City, “few seem inclined to get themselves into high-alert mode again.” Now, why might that be?

The obvious explanation is that New Yorkers can see what’s going on: For all the many COVID cases around (including among what seem to be more than half of my friends and colleagues), nobody who is vaccinated is truly sick. Thanks to vaccines, weakened viral strains and acquired immunity from earlier infections, the grim reaper of  2020 has been reduced to a nuisance no more debilitating than a short-lived cold.

The evidence isn’t just anecdotal; the proof actually hides in plain sight in the Times’ own story, although its meaning is lost on the writers and editors.

The story crucially failed to differentiate between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated — an oceanic-scale gulf in both infections and hospitalizations that is indispensable to understanding why so many New Yorkers feel confident about getting on with their lives. The people the Times interviewed who said their COVID anxiety had waned were almost surely vaxxed, but the reporters didn’t say.

This matters in the extreme. The Department of Health reports that new daily cases doubled from a seven-day average of just over 2,000 in April to nearly 4,000 in July. But hospitalizations for vaxxed and boosted New Yorkers (as of June 18, the last date fully tabulated) was running at the rate of a mere 4.83 for every 100,000 residents — compared with 7,202 among 100,000 for the unvaxxed.

And the Times tells us, “Experts estimate the true number of infections is as much as ten times higher” than official figures of 3,700 daily new city cases, thanks to people testing at home rather than with PCR tests that are recorded by the city and state.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/07/14/what-the-new-york-times-isnt-telling-you-about-a-sixth-covid-wave/

[PeteS in CA]

I forget where all I've posted this recently, so if this is a re-run-post, be amused at my memory. The Daily New Cases and Daily Deaths graphs here, https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ , give the lie to the panic-mongers' hysteria-noises. As for the rectum-sourced "Experts estimates" I take them as seriously as anti-Covid-vaxxers' similarly rectum-sourced panic-mongering hysteria-noise numbers.