The death reported today was a black woman in her 40s. That makes 53 consecutive minority COVID deaths in DC since the last white, which was back on September 15.
Unusual testing day yesterday in DC. By far the highest number of first-time test takers ever: 4,949
More than 75% of yesterday's tests were first timers. It is typically only 25-30%.
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DC numbers today show unusually low testing, spiking the pos percentage unusually high. Hospital census declining. Weekly pos % over 3% for the first time since June.
DC reports zero deaths with COVID. Still 14 in November.
Note some of the modest increase in % positive may come from the way DC is using antigen tests.
Contrary to Dr. Birx's recommendation to PCR confirm positive antigen tests, DC is doing the opposite and counting antigen positives as cases while PCR confirming the negatives.
"living with children 0-11 years was not associated with increased risks of recorded SARS-CoV-2 infection, COVID-19 related hospital or ICU admission but WAS associated with REDUCED risk of COVID-19 death"