To: proust
3. even give all that, the reported dead vs recovered ratio still aint great.
Also remember that as infrastructure breaks down (and its well past broken there), the hospitals are more likely to see the relatively milder cases (the sicker cases, which 3 weeks ago would have called for an ambulance or Uber, are now dying behind closed doors, because there is no way they could walk to the hospital, or wait around for half a day just to be told to come back tomorrow). So this ratio will get even more misleading.
Plus, hospitals are going to have their own method for determining who gets tested and who doesn't. They are going to make that determination in part, factoring in what makes them look better to the people who would kill them on a whim. Basically, there is not a single number coming out that is even worth the paper its written on.
30 posted on
02/06/2020 2:50:38 PM PST by
Excubiae
To: Excubiae
Also remember that as infrastructure breaks down (and its well past broken there), the hospitals are more likely to see the relatively milder cases (the sicker cases, which 3 weeks ago would have called for an ambulance or Uber, are now dying behind closed doors, because there is no way they could walk to the hospital, or wait around for half a day just to be told to come back tomorrow). So this ratio will get even more misleading. Doesn't sound plausible. I saw an announcement that they are only taking the most serious cases to the hospital, but I don't have a link.
68 posted on
02/06/2020 3:25:16 PM PST by
palmer
(Democracy Dies Six Ways to Sunday)
To: Excubiae
there is not a single number coming out that is even worth the paper its written on.
People still use paper?
170 posted on
02/06/2020 6:20:40 PM PST by
Hieronymus
("I shall drink--to the Pope, if you please,-still, to Conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards.")
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