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How is this positive? I don’t want my parents or grandfather to die, or my friends with common immunity issues like asthma?
Chief
Knowing information is always good! It’s positive because we have some facts and we see the virus is very targeted which can help us in policy making. Of course no one wants their relatives to die.
We can open up a targeted economy and know who we need to protect in our communities vs wasting resources on people that won’t have issues from the virus.
We know it’s not smart to wipe 50% off of our economy for people who are retired already. We also have data that supports we are potentially closer to herd immunity, although we still have a ways to see if that works.
Chief
Boston: Avg age of death 60+
97.5% had underlying conditions
32% have antibodies
New York: 99.4% had underlying conditions
21.2% antibody
Miami: studies show virus infected 16x more people pushing the mortality rate down
Italy: 97% of deaths 60+
You're 100% in control of how you react to this event.
Chief
YES👏🏻👏🏻
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do you have a good reference for what is included in underlying conditions? i wonder if the majority of americans actually fall into that category...
Chief
That’s what I’m trying to find out. It’s worrying if obesity is one since Americans are fat but we can take also see that old age is a primary factor.
I’m researching some more but it’s been a little political lately so it’s hard not to find nit-picked data.
Source?
Chief
Boston . Com
Bostonglobe . Com
Governor Cuomo press briefing
University of Miami
Yale had released some preliminary research counting excess deaths instead of COVID deaths. Excess deaths are there increase in deaths compared to this time last year. In the researched period, the excess deaths were almost double that of the reported covid deaths. This is in a period where deaths should have decreased due to reduction in accidents from driving or other activities. We know that covid is causing other immediate health issues- strokes, heart attacks, especially in younger populations. Also, none of this considers lifelong health issues in survivors that remain after the virus.
Could also be a result of increased suicides or people with other medical problems not getting treated due to priority care going to Covid patients