J
Jacob Siegal
Guest
- Thanksgiving is over, but it could be weeks or even a month before we know just how many people were infected with the novel coronavirus during the holiday.
- We will have to wait up to two weeks before the sickest COVID-19 patients begin to show up at hospitals, and another two weeks before those will serious illnesses die.
- The week of Thanksgiving was by far the busiest travel week since March, but far fewer people traveled this year than in 2019, which is a good sign.
For weeks, health experts and government officials warned Americans to avoid travel and mass gatherings during the Thanksgiving holiday. The US has been breaking its own COVID-19 case records for weeks, and it seemed inevitable that the infection rate would spike even higher in the weeks after Thanksgiving. The only real mysteries are how high the infection rate will go, and how long it will be before we see the spike reflected in the data.
As Stat explains, it will be a few days before those who were infected at their Thanksgiving gatherings or while traveling to and from their home states begin to feel sick. Then they have to go get tested and wait for their results, which can take anywhere between one and seven days. Two weeks from now, those who get sick enough to require urgent care will begin to show up in hospitals, and two weeks later, the seriously ill will begin to die. Those deaths will take time to record and appear in official tallies. In other words, we won't know the full true extent of the damage until the end of December or early January, at which point Christmas will have already come and gone.
BGR's Hottest Deal of the Day
 | Cyber Monday deal: Save on FDA-authorized Powecom KN95 masks proven by NIOSH to work better than 3M N95 masks $22.31 Available from Amazon Prime. BGR may receive a commission. Buy Now |
Continue reading...
Today's Top Deals
- Top 10 best-selling Cyber Monday 2020 deals on Amazon’s whole site
- 10 Amazon Cyber Monday 2020 deals better than anything from Black Friday
- AirPods 2 are even cheaper for Cyber Monday than they were on Black Friday
Trending Right Now:
- New coronavirus symptoms were just discovered that could be early warning signs
- Incredible new drug might work even better than a coronavirus vaccine
- Dr. Fauci is terrified of what’s about to happen with COVID-19 in America
Here’s when we’ll know how bad the Thanksgiving COVID-19 spike is originally appeared on BGR.com on Mon, 30 Nov 2020 at 17:30:52 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
Via BRG - Boy Genius Report