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Originally Posted by Chocaholic
We are seeing the US case count shoot up. It’s been a steady climb over the past 3 weeks. Yet we are seeing the death rate steadily decline.
Is COVID becoming less virulent as the Italians assert? Even if it’s younger people testing positive, you’d think the death rate would increase slower...but steadily decrease? If it’s mass testing, we could explain the case increase, but wouldn’t the death rate stabilize rather than continue to decline? So, what’s happening here?
Purposely not posted in PARF. Let’s keep it that way.
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They don't really know yet. Maybe the most vulnerable are doing a better job of avoiding it, maybe treatments are getting more effective now that they understand the disease better, maybe the virus is weakening. It is possibly a little of all three.
My wife's hospital in LACO has a record 48 serious Covid patients right now and 1/2 are under 35 years. Definitely a different demographic than 2 months ago.