traderdave wrote:Rep. Mark Meadows will resign from Congress on Monday as he prepares to officially become White House chief of staff, an aide to the North Carolina congressman told CNN. Meadows' resignation is expected to be effective at 5 p.m. ET, the aide said.

The payment for his work during the impeachment hearings is now complete.

thephan wrote:Is it just the coverage or is Trump more aggressive with black women then other gender/races?

pacino wrote:Amazon fired the worker who organized the protests around their lack of safety by claiming he violated safety standards

pacino wrote:the next major lie brewing on the right is that the number of deaths isn't accurate and what even is a covid death anyway?

it will probably get to trump himself

We first look at how many in-hospital deaths were observed in FluSurv-NET. The in-hospital deaths are adjusted for under-detection of influenza using methods similar to those described above for hospitalizations using data on the frequency and sensitivity of influenza testing. Second, because not all deaths related to influenza occur in the hospital, we use death certificate data to estimate how likely deaths are to occur outside the hospital. We look at death certificates that have pneumonia or influenza causes (P&I), other respiratory and circulatory causes (R&C), or other non-respiratory, non-circulatory causes of death, because deaths related to influenza may not have influenza listed as a cause of death. We use information on the causes of death from FluSurv-NET to determine the mixture of P&I, R&C, and other coded deaths to include in our investigation of death certificate data. Finally, once we estimate the proportion of influenza-associated deaths that occurred outside of the hospital, we can estimate the deaths-to-hospitalization ratio.

Data needed to estimate influenza-associated deaths may lag for up to two years after the season ends. When this is not yet available for the season being estimated, we adjust based on values observed in prior seasons (e.g., the 2010-2011 season through the 2016-2017 season) and update the estimates when more current data become available.

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pacino wrote:the next major lie brewing on the right is that the number of deaths isn't accurate and what even is a covid death anyway?

it will probably get to trump himself

It will go perfectly with the confusion about what an influenza death is. When we hear that 20k deaths in a year were caused by influenza, it is a significant number, but the methodology is much more liberal than the methodology we're using to estimate coronavirus deaths. It's far from apples to apples. The "direct, known" deaths caused by influenza would be orders of magnitude lower if the coronavirus methodology was used.

For influenza, from the CDC website:

We first look at how many in-hospital deaths were observed in FluSurv-NET. The in-hospital deaths are adjusted for under-detection of influenza using methods similar to those described above for hospitalizations using data on the frequency and sensitivity of influenza testing. Second, because not all deaths related to influenza occur in the hospital, we use death certificate data to estimate how likely deaths are to occur outside the hospital. We look at death certificates that have pneumonia or influenza causes (P&I), other respiratory and circulatory causes (R&C), or other non-respiratory, non-circulatory causes of death, because deaths related to influenza may not have influenza listed as a cause of death. We use information on the causes of death from FluSurv-NET to determine the mixture of P&I, R&C, and other coded deaths to include in our investigation of death certificate data. Finally, once we estimate the proportion of influenza-associated deaths that occurred outside of the hospital, we can estimate the deaths-to-hospitalization ratio.

Data needed to estimate influenza-associated deaths may lag for up to two years after the season ends. When this is not yet available for the season being estimated, we adjust based on values observed in prior seasons (e.g., the 2010-2011 season through the 2016-2017 season) and update the estimates when more current data become available.

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/ho ... imates.htm

momadance wrote:Great news, guys! It's Infrastructure Week again!

thephan wrote:I heard Governor Cuomo being rightfully upset at the idea that states are bidding with one another and when that starts to get a little rough as one state starts to pound in the coffin nails of another while simultaneously driving the cost of goods up, then FEMA steps in to sees the states and raise the bid. What a shit show