Is it though?
> For every one person who dies:
> 19 more require hospitalization.
> 18 of those will have permanent heart damage for the rest of their lives.
> 10 will have permanent lung damage.
> 3 will have strokes.
> 2 will have neurological damage that leads to chronic weakness and loss of coordination.
> 2 will have neurological damage that leads to loss of cognitive function.
* https://www.quora.com/How-can-a-disease-with-1-mortality-shu...
Assume 1% fatality rate for infections (it’s actually lower), you’re saying somewhere 19% to 60% (depending on overlap of those categories) have permanent damage?
That’s clearly not what we’re seeing.
Article links to sources. Interpret as you will.
Just a counter-'claim' against the GP that all we have to worry about is the fatality rate.
As hospitals fill up, even with a low mortality rate, it means all sorts of other procedures are delayed or cancelled.
So for every death there are 99 other cases. There is no way that 19 of those have permanent disabilities. That would means several million Americans are seriously disabled by the virus.
We know that approximately 10-20% of all cases are hospitalized. So that 19% is actually 2-4% (19% of 10-20%).
Adding critical context: Nearly half of americans are obese and/or have heart disease, and ~650,000 are killed by it each year.
How much lower would all those numbers be if americans simply exercised and ate healthy on a regular basis?
We’re also 1/3 of the way to WWII deaths in the US.