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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,836 posts)
Tue Nov 24, 2020, 03:15 PM Nov 2020

More Americans Are Surviving Covid-19

The death rate from Covid-19 is falling in the U.S., according to infectious-disease experts and biostatisticians, a signal of advancements in treatment of the disease.

But the death rate could climb with the latest nationwide rise in cases, they warn.

The coronavirus is now killing around 0.6% of people it infects, an improvement from April, when the death rate was about 0.9%, says the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of Washington.

Jeffrey Shaman, an infectious-disease modeler at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health, says the current death rate could be even lower than that, at roughly 0.15%. The death rate of seasonal influenza is 0.1%, based on data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/medical/more-americans-are-surviving-covid-19/ar-BB1biYRo?li=BBnb7Kz

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More Americans Are Surviving Covid-19 (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Nov 2020 OP
Based on healthcare under a functional system which now no longer beachbumbob Nov 2020 #1
....and wtf is going to a hospital now unless it's URGENT AF!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Brainfodder Nov 2020 #2
 

beachbumbob

(9,263 posts)
1. Based on healthcare under a functional system which now no longer
Tue Nov 24, 2020, 03:22 PM
Nov 2020

exist across major areas of America. People are dying of heart attacks NOW because care is not available.

Brainfodder

(6,423 posts)
2. ....and wtf is going to a hospital now unless it's URGENT AF!?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tue Nov 24, 2020, 03:26 PM
Nov 2020

The worry factor with healthcare now is at 11?

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