hugopal plus what about respiratory impairments due to high levels of air pollution in certain locations/cities, which has also been shown to be a significant factor?
A complete non-factor. You can pussyfoot around all you want. Obesity this; air quality that. Occam’s Razor speaks for itself. Obesity rates and air quality are static for the most part. COVID is the outlier and we’re seeing more deaths because of it. Hugo, it seems you’re emphasizing everything but the elephant in the room. Do you think we’re just making things up? For what purpose, now? When all is said and done, the mortality rate might be below 2%. But I guarantee it’ll be much higher than 0.2% in that “letter to the editor” post you used as a source.
@Jules72
Not really, no. It’s still mostly older people. But that’s anecdotal from my work (where I track outbreaks with nursing facilities, shelters, homeless encampments - they tend to skew older). Death tracking is easy, but hospitalizations are not. We’re required to report deaths up through the State’s CalREDIE database. Hospitalizations are more haphazard and are dependent on the facility. Keep in mind we don’t have a NHS. Sutter Health does their thing, Medi-Cal does another, Kaiser who knows. ICU capacity is tracked but it’s outside of my purview.
