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Number of daily deaths for the last 3 days, as I mentioned before, was 31. The 3 days before that, 18. The 3 days before that 15. That is clearly increasing. I
by phaemon 7y ago
Number of daily deaths for the last 3 days, as I mentioned before, was 31. The 3 days before that, 18. The 3 days before that 15. That is clearly increasing.
I know it's not from the statistics. Note I don't need to know the exact percentage of asymptomatic cases for this, or to know the correct course of action. Which was my point to start with. Perhaps you lost track of it?
- vonmoltke 7y agoSo, what is it going to be in 3 days? 6 days? 9 days? Your view on the situation is purely reactionary. Having population-level data allows public health officials to proactively take steps to mitigate the current crisis and anticipate how much surge capacity they will actually need. Right now they can't do that, because even testing of symptomatic people is bottlenecked. Being reactionary to a crisis like this is a very bad idea and will lead to it being worse than it needs to be.
- watwut 7y agoI think that fear that people are on fishing expedition to find any numbers that could be twisted as optimistic and then use them for politics is not reactionary paranoia. That is exactly what was and is going on last weeks. And phaemon is completely correct in saying that US has not done everything it can. It was the opposite - spinning situation in absurdly optimistic way until it became impossible to ignore.