Originally posted by Sparko
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Originally posted by Sparko
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I've also said, several times now, that you can use the language anyway you want, and I'll try to remember what you mean when you use it in any discussion we may have. I prefer to use the formal language defined by the CDC and experts in epidemiology.
And I also recognize that more testing will get our number closer and closer to the actual case-specific mortality rate. The current numbers are around 4% and most experts expect it to drop to the 1% that has been re-affirmed in several countries that have done a better testing job than we have (e.g., South Korea, Germany, etc.). More testing does NOT account for the increasing incidence of hospitalizations and the climbing death rate. Nor does more testing account for the higher percentage of positives within the tested population. The only things that account for those changes is that more people are actually being infected (i.e., the presence SARS Cor-2 is increasing in the population).
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