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re: The college football season is about to be postponed.
Posted on 8/8/20 at 1:28 pm to 3down10
Posted on 8/8/20 at 1:28 pm to 3down10
Let's go with 0.25%. It's highly contagious, so, let's say without mitigation or interventions it infects 75% of the US population. At 0.25%, that's a little over 600k deaths.
The main problem is when the hospitals get overrun. In that case, you have additional deaths from people who would have been in the 99.75% that survive, but don't because they can't get treatment.
The main problem is when the hospitals get overrun. In that case, you have additional deaths from people who would have been in the 99.75% that survive, but don't because they can't get treatment.
Posted on 8/8/20 at 1:47 pm to Smalls
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The main problem is when the hospitals get overrun.
Oh, right, that thing we’ve been 2 weeks away from since March.
Posted on 8/8/20 at 1:47 pm to Smalls
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Let's go with 0.25%. It's highly contagious, so, let's say without mitigation or interventions it infects 75% of the US population. At 0.25%, that's a little over 600k deaths.
Wow, no way so ignorant... currently death rate running 1.6% of positive tests...CDC estimates real spread 6-20% higher...let's go with 10%...death rate 0.16%...average death 73 years old....13% of population over 65... wouldn't get near your 600k..61% of population is basically not impacted unless they are obese or have other illness
Posted on 8/8/20 at 2:03 pm to Smalls
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Let's go with 0.25%. It's highly contagious, so, let's say without mitigation or interventions it infects 75% of the US population. At 0.25%, that's a little over 600k deaths.
The main problem is when the hospitals get overrun. In that case, you have additional deaths from people who would have been in the 99.75% that survive, but don't because they can't get treatment.
Hospitals aren't getting over run. Measures that would actually slow things down cause other deaths and issues.
Also, that 0.25% number is the overall. In order to get real projections you need to do it by age. People below the age of 60 it's much lower, like 0.001% or something like that. But then above the age of 60 it also gets higher and by the time you get above the age of 70 it goes above the 0.25%.
I recently read that almost half the deaths thus far have been people in nursing homes.
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