A lot of other factors should matter, a famous example is polio, where a lot of the tragedy was in people having lifelong deformations and paralyses. Personall

A lot of other factors should matter, a famous example is polio, where a lot of the tragedy was in people having lifelong deformations and paralyses. Personally I posted this article because I was irritated by how often local news would report "today there were a lot fewer cases, possibly due to lower testing" and the day after "today there were a lot more cases, possibly due to higher testing" as if any of those numbers are meaningful alone (compare 2000 positives on 3000 and 300,000 tests...)