Yes that's right, not a single person died in the USA last week from Covid or cancer. They all died from cardiac arrest.
The leading cause of cardiac arrest last week was Covid. More people died last week as a result of Covid than cancer or heart disease.
Many hospitals are overloaded. They're telling some people they'd normally admit to go home and come back later if they get sicker. That happened to a daughter of a friend of mine week before last. The emergency room sent her home the first time. She came back when her oxygen saturation was below 60 and they let her stay.
We have two vaccines that are 95% effective. We won't have to get to herd immunity the hard way. Seventy percent of the population won't have to be infected with the disease and hundreds of thousands more won't have to die. In another six months this will be over.
Where I'm going with this, it doesn't make a lot of sense blaming this on Donald Trump or Mario Cuomo or the mayor or the CDC or the FDA and leaving it at that. We individually don't have any control over who our leaders are, or the ability of our institutions to deal with this crisis. All we can do is exercise common sense to try to keep from getting the disease or giving it to others -- avoid crowded indoor settings, try to stay 6 feet away from others, stay home if we're sick until we're tested, wash hands, and wear a mask, preferably an N95 or KN95 mask. I buy mine here, https://accumed.com/