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I am not surprised by this one bit. I've been looking at these charts daily, and it's a bit silly to need confirmation from a study: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/

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Agreed, however the media has been singularly focused on new cases as a measure of the pandemic's severity. To me the news here is as much "NPR reports on the falling COVID death rate."

Even here they seem insistent that the lower death rate is attributable to "flattening the curve" even though there's almost no correlation at this point.

What are you referring to? The bulk of the article is about hospitals having more experience and standardizing protocols. Then they mention masks and social distancing as possibly reducing the viral load. They never mention "flattening the curve", but one of the last things they mention is keeping hospitals under capacity.

Yes, and it's still at 4%, but, true, it fell down from over 20% in the early days, but the sample is big enough to know that it's not less than 1%.

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