> This is false. Deaths were down, but they have been climbing again for the last three weeks. Deaths relative to cases are down... > Mortality is a lagging i

> This is false. Deaths were down, but they have been climbing again for the last three weeks. Deaths relative to cases are down... > Mortality is a lagging indicator to infections, so what we're seeing right now is mortality from the earliest stages of reopening. ...even accounting for lag. > There may be some factors that are combating more severe symptoms (e.g. greater vitamin D, if that turns out to be a real effect), but the virus hasn't recently become somehow less potent. Then why are deaths down? Why is no other state repeating anything close to what New York went through? > False again. In the current hotspot states -- Florida, Arizona, and Texas -- ICU capacity in many areas is strained or overwhelmed Nowhere does it say "overwhelmed". At or near capacity is not "overwhelmed". It's better to ring the alarms sooner than later, of course.