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How would we have had another 3-4 million dead? All any restriction did was delay exposure. Yes, a vaccine arrived but one which has questionable efficacy and
by benjaminwootton 4y ago
How would we have had another 3-4 million dead? All any restriction did was delay exposure. Yes, a vaccine arrived but one which has questionable efficacy and which wanes in effectiveness (hence the booster programme). All we did was spread out any Covid related deaths at huge costs.
- classichasclass 4y ago"Questionable efficacy" in what sense? You can argue that possibly for transmission, but certainly not for endpoints like death. See the recent Lancet study, for example.
- CastFX 4y agoI assume those excess deaths would've come because of the failure of health system and its inability to aid curable cases of Covid
- zen_of_prog 4y agoI don't know if it would have been that high, but the whole (initial) idea of "flatten the curve" was exactly that. Saturated systems stop working as expected. When hospitals reach capacity then neither covid nor non-covid patients will get adequate treatment.
- denimnerd42 4y agothe earlier strains were probably more deadly than the ones we have now, no? just due to the nature of how viruses work that's my hypothesis.