327m Americans 10% = 32m 1% = 3.2m .1% = 327k .01% = 32,700 infection rate range of 1/3rd to everyone & a fatality rate from .2% to 8% (?!) US deaths 9k At 900 deaths a day for a month we would see the .01% range—or flu season Discuss/speculate in this safe space thread
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COVID is known to cause heart damage via multiple pathways; hypertension + cardiovascular disease are risk factors on par with lung disease But "deaths overstated" is a fun take while NYC considered mass burials in a park because they don't have enough freezer trucks
For reference, NYC had a morgue capacity of 900, and that's worked just fine for them prior to this — that should give you a sense of how mortality has exploded in the city in the past 2-3 weeks
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You're working from the assumption that these issues are due to sheer body count and not bottle necks. 1) Funeral homes are not taking bodies because they get their money from gatherings, which cannot be held. 2) Morgues are holding bodies longer bc of testing requirements
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It's clearly both. 1 is false; funeral homes are overflowing. 2 may be a contributing factor, but would hardly matter if deaths were a rounding error on top of anticipated all-cause mortality. Mass burials in parks are not a topic of conversation during a bad flu season.
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