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Media and the facts
2021-04-26
Invariably media, also today, carries complaints from desperate nurses, doctors and hospital administrators that the intensive care wards are “becoming” overburdened by COVID-19 patients.
So, let us look at the facts as they appear in Johns Hopkins tables for April 4th, 2021
| New deaths last day | 41 |
| Record high (jan 20 2021) | 474 |
| New deaths last week | 135 |
| Record high (10 jan – 16 jan 2021) | 890 |
| Past month | 566 |
| Record high (January 2021) | 2864 |