Vast majority of those who died had comorbidities (obesity, diabetes, COPD, heart disease). On the one hand, ~200,000 unhealthy people are no longer taxing the US Healthcare system. If this were the only impact of Covid, one could surmise that, when over, this plague improved the overall health of our country.
But it’s not the only impact. Democrats swear by the “effectiveness” of overly onerous lockdowns, but this ignores the very unhealthy side effects. Cancers going undetected. Alcoholism and drug abuse on the rise. Higher numbers of children not getting vaccinated. The socio-economic damage of increased school drop out rates.
It will be interesting to read some public health surveys on our state of health after this plague is gone.
dropped from 4-8% in April to a fraction of that today. (the 8% was only NY where Cuomo was sentencing nursing home residents to death by sending infected people to live with them.) Massive testing automatically means more cases with no symptoms ( and ultimately no deaths) will be discovered.
The infection rates have only spiked over the past week or so, thus it's impossible to know what the hospitalization and death rates will be. Since we've learned a lot about how to treat the disease it's reasonable to expect the death rate will come down somewhat but it's impossible to know where it will end up. What we do know is deaths are back over 1,000 a day.
Remembering "flattening the curve" so as not to overwhelm the healthcare system? As we learn more about the virus and the disease, mortality should go down. As better data comes in on which drugs work best in which situations, mortality should go down. As the availability of equipment and supplies improves, mortality should go down. . As the number of cases explodes and overwhelms the available healthcare resources, mortality should go up. . A mortality rate that is currently low does not mean "let everybody get sick - mortality is low! It won't hurt you!" It means, "If the number of cases spikes, AS IT IS DOING, and patients cannot receive the best care that there will be more deaths."
Posted By: coeur-de-lion
Re: And the mortality rate has . . . . dropped from 4-8% in April to a fraction of that today.
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