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Your math doesn't check out. 5% of people that get it (among a wide range of ages) require serious medical care for weeks. And if we send 5% of any population t
by binaryorganic 7y ago
Your math doesn't check out. 5% of people that get it (among a wide range of ages) require serious medical care for weeks. And if we send 5% of any population to the hospital in a given month the death rate for ALL diseases goes way up.
- omilu 7y ago>> 5% of people that get it The number of people that have it is under reported, so the death rate and hospitalization rates are exaggerated.
- throwanem 7y agoIt still sends as many people to the hospitals as it sends to the hospitals, weak epidemiological data or no. If that's more than the hospitals can handle, people start dying who otherwise wouldn't. That, too, is not an indicator subject to measurement bias imposed by lousy testing regimes. It's also a thing that is happening. We will see more of it before we see less.
- MiroF 7y ago> 5% of people that get it (among a wide range of ages) require serious medical care for weeks Just based on the experience in other countries, GP seems quite spot on in terms of who is impacted, who dies, and the percentage of the population. Your comment seems speculative and substantial number of non-70+ year olds dying has not been borne out by the data at all.