We will NEVER know an actual death rate because the testing was so effed up out of the gate. Antibody testing 350 million people is a logistical impossibility and will never happen (though I suspect that eventually we’ll have a big enough sample to prove that the early modeling on this was crap).
Though that will trigger a whole nother debate on just WHEN those people got infected.
We’ve got a scientific debate here that has come to loggerheads with no end on the horizon. And we just can’t keep life in suspended animation while they try to figure it out.
Could not agree more Buckeye.......(used to live in Mansfield....not one of Ohio’s nicer cities....)
You know, in truth antibody testing a very large percentage of the population would not be that difficult. The test kits that have been developed for this are no more difficult to perform than an at-home pregnancy test. If people were allowed to purchase these test kits over-the-counter for themselves I'm sure many would test themselves.
The problem lies with the inability of the "proper authorities" to be able to track the population if people are doing this in the privacy of their own homes.
Looks like the great HIPAA rules that were started during the AIDS epidemic in order to protect the gay community from discrimination has lived out it's usefulness.
An interesting side thought about that - the movie "Philadelphia" was probably the biggest factor in shaping public acceptance of the need for HIPAA. And who was the star of that movie? Tom Hanks - first big celebrity to claim he was a victim of COVID?