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Its crazy they didn't talk about testing. In April if you were a 25 year old with a mild cough you couldn't get a test even if you begged for one. Now you can g
by x87678r 6y ago
Its crazy they didn't talk about testing. In April if you were a 25 year old with a mild cough you couldn't get a test even if you begged for one. Now you can get a test easily, its little wonder the denominator has gone up a lot.
Edit: Yeah I see its hospitalized and they tried to control. I'm not convinced its a useful study but at least dont upvote this.
- SpicyLemonZest 6y agoThe studies here attempt to sidestep the question of testing by measuring only hospitalized patients, adjusting for age and health conditions to try and rule out the "otherwise healthy people couldn't get into the hospital before" hypothesis.
- bradddd 6y agoImportant to note that their findings are of hospitalized patients. Even back in April, nearly all admitted patients were being tested.
- paganel 6y agoIt could also be that back in April not all patients that should have been hospitalised were indeed hospitalised (for lack of beds/doctors), presumably the threshold for "you should be admitted into the hospital" was higher in April compared to lets say July or August. As such, a lower "hospitalisation threshold" for July or August (compared to April) should have indeed caused a lower death-rate.
- superseeplus 6y agoThe criteria for being admitted was also stricter back then at least in NYC.
- wesleywt 6y agoI don't see why a drop death rate of people getting submitted to hospital is not a useful study? It is not measuring mild cases, its measuring people who are severe enough to require hospitilasation. This is clearly showing we are improving in the treatment of the disease.
- vmception 6y agoYeah I had started lying to both get tests, and get results back quicker There was no sacrifice at the expense of other people that needed a scarce resource more, only complete mismanagement and disorganization