No new covid death marked Monday
No new Covid death in Quebec and thus in Montreal has been officially tallied Monday, the first time this has happened since March 22.
Forgive me if I suspect the Quebec government of lightening up on lockdown requirements and/or of lightening up the news to create a more positive mood as we approach St-Jean.
Also Monday, François Legault shuffled some cabinet positions. He has moved Christian Dubé to the tricky health portfolio, creating a new Minister of Higher Education post for Danielle McCann. Education’s Jean-François Roberge will now only manage elementary and high schools.
What is Legault telling us about government priorities to put Dubé, who was chair of the treasury board and is a financial guy through and through, in charge of health?
Faiz imam 13:09 on 2020-06-22 Permalink
Somewhat expected. Sundays numbers are always the lowest, and we’ve been trending towards zero for a while now.
Tomorrow the numbers will be higher, hopefully not by too much.
david824 15:43 on 2020-06-22 Permalink
Axios has a brief linking the decreasing death rates to the theory/fact that new infections are disproportionately younger.
david824 17:10 on 2020-06-22 Permalink
And this, from Yglesias, gives us an idea of what may be going on in some places: https://www.nber.org/papers/w27408#fromrss
Basically, when certain people are out protesting every day, other people are staying inside. With the result that the least vulnerable (younger protesters) are being infected more and the more/most vulnerable (normal middle aged or older people) are being infected less.
david824 17:15 on 2020-06-22 Permalink
I’d also guess that normal summer activities – road trips, picnics, parties, rolling around in the hay, etc. – while not exactly going strong, are going strong enough to drive infection rates higher among the younger cohort, totally independent of the protests. Literally, when you’re being paid not to work and you have all this free time, unless you’re working on your novel or whatever, what the hell else are you going to do?