3 ms·
Counterpoint. Countries are reporting higher death rates in even if you take out the deaths attributed to COVID-19. One possible explanation for this difference
by demygale 6y ago
Counterpoint. Countries are reporting higher death rates in even if you take out the deaths attributed to COVID-19. One possible explanation for this difference is people are dying from COVID-19 and not being counted as victims of the pandemic.
Financial Times has some reporting on this.
- verdverm 6y agoCase in point, we will never really know and we should feel lucky that this wasn't catastrophic and we got away with our lack of preparedness.
- jussij 6y agoI think the count of the number of countries that have got away this outbreak is much smaller than the number of countries still dealing with the outbreak. I would also say many of these countries are just at the start of this process. The are only a few ways a country can get over the virus: 1. Find a vaccine (which is still months/years away). 2. Impose very strict isolation rules (i.e. New Zealand) 3. Develop heard immunity (i.e. reach a point where 70+% of the population have been infected).
- verdverm 6y agoEveryone got off easy because the CFR is single digits, likely less than 1%. I'm talking about a real epidemic, where one in 3-5 died, than things would be real bad.