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Re:Axios-Ipsos poll: Most Americans say Covid is no longer a... by vannevar on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @11:25AM (#31003938)
>My reaction was "well deaths are way down" but then I looked and we recently had a spike of deaths as big or larger than the initial wave.

Your initial reaction was correct, national deaths (and hospitalizations) are way down (https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#datatracker-home). There may be localities that are near crisis, but this is a national poll.

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Re:Axios-Ipsos poll: Most Americans say Covid is no longer a... by nkozyra on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @09:03PM (#31010072)
That's a very short timeframe on that page. Look at the overall trend: https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#trends_dailydeaths
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Re:Axios-Ipsos poll: Most Americans say Covid is no longer a... by vannevar on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @09:32PM (#31010256)
The long range chart also shows the rate dramatically off the peak and dropping.
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Re:Axios-Ipsos poll: Most Americans say Covid is no longer a... by nkozyra on Tuesday April 12, 2022 @09:34PM (#31010274)
Definitely dropping, but following the same trajectory as previous years.

The peak in February was the second worst in three Feb/Mar of the pandemic and had the highest single-day death count.

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