The public was led to believe that "this generally only kills the elderly" inferred "this generally only hospitalizes the elderly." But this just isn't true, and it has massive implications for policy as the hospital systems in all the major US outbreak cities groan under strainhttps://twitter.com/EpsilonTheory/status/1243327948385652736 …
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"0.7-3% death rate with ideal treatment conditions" gets parsed as "ah, it's not so bad, nothing to worry about"
by early March we had people pointing out that this seemed be either a 0.6-1% CFR or 3-5+% CFR illness depending on whether or not hospitals were able to provide treatment in every case where it was indicated Somehow this was an extremely difficult concept
