I feel like it's 2015 and people on this forum are claiming NYCFC has a chance long after it as over.
It is almost impossible to overstate the extent to which NY is an outlier. We are way off the charts, and nothing brings us back close to the rest of the country.
Florida has a high number of ICU units and capacity because of their aging population - they aren’t near capacity because their peak isn’t until the middle of May. If they’re already past 20k infections, with 3-5 weeks to go, then the numbers will ramp up significantly, especially in the land of nursing homes.
The same projections that say Florida will peak in mid-May project 4,800 Florida deaths by August 4. NY has 11,500 deaths today, and 14,500 projected by August 4. Those August projections might be low for both, but it's almost impossible for Florida to come close to catching up with New York. We're not even in the same universe.
Many states are doing “well” because they’re not testing with any concentration.
Assume that (1) the rest of the country were testing at NY state levels, and (2) that all the people the rest of the country is
not testing are infected and dying at the same levels as those tested.
The second half of that is a ridiculously unfair and even stupid assumption, by the way, but I'll bend 2x over backwards to prove my point. It basically assumes that the rest of the country is doing an extremely poor job of deciding who to test. It almost requires that the rest of the country intentionally test a lot of people with no or minimal symptoms while ignoring a substantial number of actual cases. But let's run with it.
The adjusted USA x-NY numbers would be:
Cases/1M: 4,216
Deaths/1M 166
Here are the NY State figures at this actual level of testing:
Cases/1M: 10,941
Deaths/1M 591
For reference, the actual reported USA x-NY figures are:
Cases/1M: 1,380
Deaths/1M 55
Again, it's virtually impossible for the rest of the country to reach a NY level of cases or deaths. Assume whatever you want about testing levels, or when peaks hit, or underestimating cases or deaths or projections. You cannot overstate how badly NY state has been hit by this virus. Nobody else is close no matter how you manipulate or massage the numbers.
So many people have said they are 99% sure they had it, but never got tested. There was reporting early on in the pandemic that our infection rates could be as much as 10 times as high as the official number, and that wouldn't surprise me at all.
Are these the same people who claim they had it from November to February? The first half of that time period is way before the viruses left China in any significant numbers, and even before it penetrated China to any substantial effect. As for the January-February cases, it would be quite a miracle that so many people had the virus in those months yet hospitalizations, intubations, and deaths did not increase until late March.
I myself had the "mystery flu" from January to February. A week of high fever, headaches and body aches, followed by 3+ weeks of a persistent non-productive cough. I tested negative for the flu that first week and at the end of the period I had borderline low blood oxygen. Ahaa!! Except nobody else got sick. Not my family, and nobody who worked closely with me, while I took almost no precautions except the de minimis hand over mouth for a cough or sneeze that entire time. And the cough went away with antibiotics. I didn't have Covid-19, and neither did 99.9% of the people who think they did before mid-March. What I almost certainly had was the flu, likely a variant that the test didn't recognize, followed by an opportunistic bacterial infection in my throat and/or sinuses. Just like all the people who have self-diagnosed with Covid-19.