Hansen wrote:This map is the best resource for stats. Still holding around 3.5% mortality rate, likely really high with lack of testing.
Ultimately, it's not going to be how many die as a % of total infections, but how many require ICU and other in hospital support.
We are still planning a Florida run but actively monitoring. Florida Health released a list of gender/age: I'd guess about 90% of the cases in Florida involve International Travel and 80% are people over 60.
The focus on effects of "most people" and the total deaths as a % of infections are straw men in determining the outcomes of the virus. Death Rate is also higher due to piss poor management: Living Care Center was not testing employees because the protocol was to only test people with symptoms. At one point, over half the deaths in Washington were from that one facility.
If it was simple as "we'll get it eventually", no big deal. But here's the thing with statistics: they are used to forecast how many hospital beds, ventilators, etc.
We can compare the death rate to the flu all day. But that's typically a known factor with a predictable baseline. Covid-19 has no baseline.
Heart attacks, population mortality, car accidents, births, gang banger shootings, etc..... everything is forecast into health care demand curves.
Drop 200,000 unanticipated ICU cases on hospitals in the month of June- that crushes the demand curve.
Somewhere between the States and the Feds need to be mobilizing for that affect.
No one gives a sh!t if you and I get Covid- 19, and no one that makes decisions knows who H20Fwlr is..... but they do care about the statistical likelihood he's going to end up in ICU if he contracts Covid- 19.