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Nebraska finds itself at 329 deaths per million making it 11th 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.
Nebraska’s deaths and hospitalizations have not followed the same path as case increases and, instead, the state has stayed below 200 people per million in hospitals, which isn’t anywhere near increased case numbers.
“By the numbers, it's pretty hard to argue with Nebraska's handling of COVID. Nebraska has fewer than 1/4 the deaths/million of Massachusetts, and 1/6th that of New York,” the commentary states. “Currently, Nebraska's hospitalizations have inched up, getting close to 200/million, and of course the deaths/capita/day are 85% lower than Massachusetts, and 95% lower than New York. All of this with the nation's lowest unemployment. Now, Nebraska is a large state with a small population, thus, this is not to indicate that this is a model for the rest of the country. Nebraska, like so many U.S. states has done an admirable job flattening the curve, without flattening its citizens.”
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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