I asked the same question and here are the answers I get:
1) To prevent hospitals from being swamped.
2) The 1% who do not survive is still a large number to the tune of hundreds of thousands. They need protection and vaccines are the best chance of protecting them.
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Can I ask who told you that?
Reason being from what I have learned, by taking some of the therapeutics, many if not most cases would not require hospitalization.
Seems many docs are not willing to “color outside of the lines...”
Thank you GWB, his Porkulus, and Electronic Medical Records.
Every independent doc I had either went to a health system or retired after that.
And now all toe the party line. What a coinkydink.