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Measure by lives lost?

A case only really matters to clinical medicine if there’s some type of symptom.

Of course it benefits the “concerned” side to couch their argument in the idea of some murky, unobservable effects.

Are deaths the only thing that matters to you? Shouldn't we be just as concerned about hospitalizations? Is there any reason that you're aware of for cases to not be a good proxy for hospitalizations?

My point is that: hospitalizations != cases

It would make sense that an observed drop in deaths would correspond to a drop in hospitalizations if the case number is rising significantly.

That's good imo.

edit: CDC graph shows hospitalization rate steadily dropping.

When you say "observed drop in deaths" are you referring back to the original article? Because the first sentence is "Two new peer-reviewed studies are showing a sharp drop in mortality among hospitalized COVID-19 patients." so I'm having trouble making sense of what you're saying.

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