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Originally Posted by edslunch
The death rate is very low relative to the number of cases, I wonder what’s going on:
- virus is losing it virility
- younger patients
- catching more asymptotic people
- better treatments
- cooking the books
- ....
If the hospitals start overflowing the number will ramp up but it’s currently very low compared to the recent sustained positive test rate.
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The problem with simply looking at a hard percentage of if you get it will you die is that it leaves the other critical factor out of the conversation. That is how infectious it is. A highly infectious soemwhat lethal virus is deadlier than a lethal but not very infectious one. Ebola is deadly but it’s too deadly that it does t get time to really spread. Covid appears to be highly infectious and likely more infectious than the flu or pneumonia. It is also more d a droid than those for a good chunk of the population.
Cooking the books...the CDC in the latest things I’ve read seem to be leaning towards Covid causes of death being underreported. Though for a good chunk of the population they don’t seem to grasp any of these things. Oh well that person had cancer so really it’s the cancer than killed him he just had Covid. Well if the death was caused because of covid symptoms and not the spread of cancer at that time it’s a covid death. But it’s amazing how absolutely lacking empathy the heart of Trump country is. They were old. They were sick. Apparently that means it’s not a big deals they were robbed of further days, weeks, months or years with loved ones.