Quincy Hits Two Thousand Confirmed COVID-19 Cases

The city reached the milestone amid a surge of coronavirus cases in Massachusetts and nationwide.  A Laura Owens Lambert image for the Patriot Ledger

– News covered by Quincy Quarry News with commentary added.

Stealth virus?
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Quincy hits two thousand COVID-19 cases.

Or to be technically correct, two thousand positive tests confirming COVID-19 infection.

At the same time, the actual total number of locals likely infected to date is likely higher to many fold times higher.

Multiple multiple studies have found that more to many more times people have probably been infected by the virus than per confirmed test results, but did not know it as they were asymptomatic, perhaps thought they were suffering a bout of the flu or perhaps a cold, or for whatever other reason did not reach out for testing and/or medical care.

Entering permanent voting registration while in perpetual care?
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Also note that as Quincy has experienced at last report one hundred and thirty-seven COVID-19 fatalities to date, such would offer support for the view that Quincy has suffered more to many times more than two thousand COVID-19 infections to date.

This suspicion can be readily supported mathematically.  

The math: 137 deaths over 2,000 text confirmed case works out a 6.8% fatality rate among those known to be inflected. 

At all costs, duck, deny and/or dodge …
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In turn, this fatality rate is over ten times the generally assumed to be domestic fatality rate of 0.6% per infection and thus indicating that the actual number of COVID-19 infections locally is more likely north of 23,000 infections after making the appropriate calculations rather than the test-confirmed number to date of but 2,000 local infections.

Regardless, so far no spin from the Koch Maladministration in response to hitting this milestone, not that anyone among Quincy Quarry’s ever-growing legions of loyal reader expects such to ever be forthcoming out of City Hall on anything that might even but potentially perhaps but merely reflect negatively on it, most especially if also deservedly so.

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Accordingly, Quincy locals should fasten their seat belts as we head into an expected COViD-19 infections rate surge as we head into the cold time to the year and when people tend to stay indoors and so often within close quarters.

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