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what about “number of people hospitalised with flu-like symptoms” possibly adding “not provably unrelated to coronavirus” (i.e. untested people get included, ev
by ferzul 7y ago
what about “number of people hospitalised with flu-like symptoms” possibly adding “not provably unrelated to coronavirus” (i.e. untested people get included, even those with flu get tested included unless it's proved they don't have both)
not every country has comparable death handling, but you can't hide a person on a respirator.
(alas, i guess it's not widely reported)
- dredmorbius 7y agoFlu, and numerous other infectuous diseases, are independently testable. Within reasonable error bounds, COVID-19 is "respiratory disease. not otherwise indicated", or "ideopathic pneumonia". Diagnosis by exclusion is nonideal, but often accepted, at least for other conditions.