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Originally Posted by sirdaft1
Can anyone help me understand why the only thing talked about/shown on media is the upward rate of growth in COVID cases without a mention of the current mortality rate or hospitalizations? A reasonable person would think that those last two would be critical toward understanding the current state of this pandemic and how we should respond.
See recent piece with data gathered from Covidtracking.com. Note orange vs blue lines.
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If certain conspiracies are to believed then the early reports are padded. Now people want to stop testing or reporting at all. What's to be believed?
Edit- it could also be that early cases were more concentrated in the elderly and immunocompromised which makes sense. We are basically the survivors of that early wave, so our fatality rate will be different.