What Changing Death Rates Tell Us About COVID-19

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'The bottom line is simple: COVID-19 is a scary disease that kills a lot of the people that it infects.' Experts break down what changing death rates tell us about COVID-19:

The good news: COVID-19 hasn’t proven to be as deadly as first feared, when some early projections suggested as many as one in four infected people would die.

In addition, election-year politics have played an enormous role in communicating the risk of COVID-19. Democrats and Republicans alike -- including President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic presidential nominee -- have cited conflicting information to bolster their campaigns.

This is good news, Adalja notes, because it means the virus is not mutating and becoming more lethal over time, which would have made developing treatments and a“It’s not that the disease is changing, it’s that we’re getting a better picture of the extent of infection,” explains Adalja, who is also a practicing infectious disease doctor. “From the very beginning, we had severity bias, where we were only seeing a fraction of those cases, which is going to increase the fatality rate.

The second measure is what’s called the “case fatality ratio,” or CFR, which estimates this proportion of deaths among identified and confirmed cases and is usually established only after a pandemic has ended by analyzing death records and laboratory-confirmed cases from hospitals and other sources. “They’re all related concepts, there are some nuances to them,” Adalja says. “But in general, what you want to know is: What are your chances of dying if you get infected with this? That’s the IFR.”

 

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Shame on the politicians that shoved this down our necks.

Yes ur thinking and thinking and taking revenge of ur child hood with me as you were not given emotional support

I can see and feel the pain all over and some kids unfortunately were not able to enjoy their childhood and ur one of them and I remind u of woman from past so u hate me as you know neglect of kids lead to behaviors affecting adult life

“A lot of people” ? ridiculous and fictional statement!

I wouldn’t call 0.6% a lot but thats just me.

Abortion kills more then this plandemic!

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