There's something deeply unexplained about the U.S. coronavirus death rates compared to other countries. It can't be explained by hospital payment incentives or even leadership mistakes. For some reason, we are all blind to the biggest variable, whatever it is.
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very strong regional/state component to US death rates per case and per per population. Four times higher in NY/NJ in first wave than in FL/AZ/TX in second wave. NY-NJ policies on sending sick COVIDs back to nursing homes a factor.pic.twitter.com/tJBb30BYTh
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There's so much wrong with these charts. Cases were heavily undercounted in March/April. Age pattern of the infected was very different in later months, with more young people infected and hence less severe cases. Better treatments of hospitalized cases were found over time.
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Case fatality rates like in your table don't tell us anything useful at the moment as they're highly influenced by testing capacities and strategies, in particular during the early phase of the pandemic.
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We are not materially worse (and in some cases better) than Western European countries (UK, Italy, Spain, France) other than Germany. >50% of excess deaths explained by NY/NJ nursing homes. Other common culprits across these countries are insufficient testing and contact tracing
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