“....Evidently New York was sitting on a number of cases it needed to classify, and the
decision came down that they would classify them as COVID-19 related deaths....”
They pulled this out of their butts! They could classify virtually anything as a Covid-19 death.
“””Beginning to think they aren’t reporting recoveries very well. Looking back two weeks, we were seeing many more new cases than we are seeing resolved now.”””
I can understand why doctors are being cautious in declaring a person fully recovered. There is still some uncertainty about a person having a relapse. So a doctor likely wants a seemingly healthy corona patient, who has recovered, to lay low for an extended period.
I believe the two most important numbers to watch are deaths and serious/critical. When those two numbers start slowing, we can surmise the infected people are being diagnosed early in the stage of the disease and that treatments are working.
So far in the USA we are not seeing a slowdown in either the deaths and serious/critical numbers.
WOW!
You are clearly overqualified to work for the Federal Gov.
Lots of great info!
you’re making the numbers spin. nicely done.
re: the populations for France and UK
according to Worldometrs - mid-year 2020 - France = 65.2 and Uk = 67.8. The rest are close enough.
I’m still working the U.S. percentages of end of today’s new case increase over EOD yesterday total cases and that number keeps shrinking. today now @ .046 or 4.6%. 5 days ago it was .071 or 7.1%. 10 days ago it was .12 or 12%.
so as a percent of the total population, this virus is minuscule...
thanx again.
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I read an post from a freeper some days ago (i’ll never find it now) whose family member tested positive (or some relative IIRC) but was never sick enough to be hospitalized. There was no follow up on this person, docs checking, further testing etc.
So it’s a possibility that some who test positive but are not sick enough to be hospitalized may not be counted as recovered.
@doughtyone