re: Running average of 49 worldwide antibody studies is showing a mortality rate of 0.23%

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And that’s with social distancing and other effective measures.

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You clearly have no idea what a fatality rate is.

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I know you are being sarcastic, but social distancing has ZERO effect on a virus mortality rate I say that only because some people truly believe it

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I don't really know about stuff like this, so I'm asking, not being argumentative -

1) If at-risk populations socially distanced (reducing transmission in those populations), and more of them contracting Covid would have upped the mortality rate (dying at a greater rate) - couldn't that be reflected?

2) If social distancing helped keep medical strain low, and that increased the quality of care (or prevented it from decreasing) - same question?

For both, these are practical considerations which wouldn't truly impact the lethality of the virus in a vacuum (at least in my mind). But all mortality rates are impacted by such things, right?

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buckeye_vol

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One of TD's elite scientists

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Mortality rate just includes people who had it right?

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Who were diagnosed.

Weld the doors shut on their houses.... The wu tang flu gonna kill everybody!!!!!

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I know you are being sarcastic, but social distancing has ZERO effect on a virus mortality rate I say that only because some people truly believe it

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Yes and no. If everyone got sick all at once you have more potential to overwhelm the system, which could conceivably lead to more deaths. Hence social distancing to flatten the curve.

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Now this is bad science

The scientists have said the strain mutations are absolutely minimal at this point(to the point calling them a different strain is even a stretch)

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Or maybe you're behind on the news

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Scientists have identified a new strain of the coronavirus that has become dominant worldwide and appears to be more contagious than the versions that spread in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study led by scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

The new strain appeared in February in Europe, migrated quickly to the East Coast of the United States and has been the dominant strain across the world since mid-March, the scientists wrote

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This might actually be a plausible explanation for why things seem to be the worst in the North East states and in Western Europe

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In many places where the new strain appeared, it quickly infected far more people than the earlier strains that came out of Wuhan, China, and within weeks it was the only strain that was prevalent in some nations, according to the report. The new strain’s dominance over its predecessors suggests that it is more infectious, according to the report, though exactly why is not yet known.

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Plenty of people in their 20s and 30s have died.

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Wrong. Have there been examples of this? Yes. But not plenty. Of the 340 deaths in Alabama, the youngest was 50. Median age of deaths in Bama is 74. Over 55% of the deaths had multiple co-morbidities.

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Why do you want old people to die?

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I don't want Old people to die, there's just no reason for those that are working and for kids to change their lifestyle for something that statistically has absolutely ) effect on them.

Yeah

We’ve been had. Too bad we can’t move on