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Thanks and thanks :)

Town of 290k, pepsionice? You said the number of dead out of 290k was 24?

Zhang you said that their hospitals are almost at western standards at this point.

So the hospitals are getting full with people that have it but the death rate seems low.

My quick math (which means probably wrong lol) tells me it’s on par or lower than the US mortality rate.

But with numbers being fudged and without knowing if COVID is what primarily killed people in certain instances...ah, what a mess.

And yeah I guess one can get the flu and COVID at the same time in winter...there’s a variable to consider.

Ah, i’m lost :)

The statistical data is frankly...crapped out.

In Germany for example...most cities are telling x-number dead. Some cities are extremely blunt and data-resourceful....telling you the daily death count, their age, and if secondary conditions exist (Wiesbaden does it that way). Other cities skip that part of the story.

Then you have the problem of tests. Say in your region 2k tests were accomplished today. Then they report 350 were positive. Well...they never tell you the starting number (2k). Also, they never break it (300 men and 50 women)...that will never be displayed.

Then you come to multiple tests. Maybe you only had two symptoms and your doctor said lets do the test anyway (they would NOT have done that in April). So you come up positive 24 hours later. Maybe you don’t trust the result....so you ask for a second test (because you marginally have two symptoms), and the second test shows positive again. Those two tests (positives) count as two individuals....not one. No one can say out of 2k tests done today in a region...that 40 of them are repeats. Then you have the issue of a test at the end of 12 days...maybe you test for a 3rd time...maybe still as a positive then. That will be counted as three separate infections...not one person.

Regionally, the vast majority of infected folks do home-quarantine (I would guess near 95 percent). You got to have severe breathing issues or major secondary problems to get the slip to enter the specialized hospital rooms for the virus. But again, this type of data is not openly discussed, nor are journalists smart enough to ask questions.