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South Carolina finds itself at 757 deaths per million making it 39th 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.
South Carolina deaths and hospitalizations have not followed the same path as case increases and, instead, the state had a peak of 300 people per million in hospitals with 10 deaths per day per million, which isn’t anywhere near increased case numbers.
“South Carolina has just over 1/2 the death rate of Massachusetts, and 40% the death rate of New York. South Carolina is one of the "second wavers", though it was able to keep both hospitalizations and deaths much lower,” the commentary states. “South Carolina peaked at 300/million hospitalizations--half those of Massachusetts, and 70% lower than New York. Deaths/day peaked at 10 deaths/day/million, less than half of Massachusetts, and 75% lower than New York. South Carolina currently has a death rate that is the same as Massachusetts, despite again, having ostensibly 2x the number of cases. South Carolina, like many other states, has done a good job with managing saving lives and livelihoods, with one of the lowest unemployment rates in the country at 5.1%.”
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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