Just to clarify: the metric for a pandemic's effect is HOSPITALIZATIONS, and not positive tests.
Thanks, Papi
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Your posts are increasingly inane and unintelligible.
Not sure why you're dragging me into this, but I've said that very same thing before. That I'd like to see data on COVID hospitalizations not just deaths and positive test results. I've mentioned the deaths a lot because that's obviously an awful result with tremendous impact.
But I had a lengthy post recently saying we focus too much on deaths and not enough on people who get sick from the virus and survive, people who experience various degrees of physical problems including a % who thought they would die or came close to it.
We need to test a lot and find positive cases so they can be quarantined, not infect others, be monitored, and so public health officials know what is going on and can respond appropriately. But between Deaths and Positives, there's a large group of Hospitalizations that should be tabulated and reported. And of course that would make Trump and his Admin look even worse on their failed response.
And to get at the Actual Infection rate, multiply the Confirmed Positives by a factor of 5x to 10x. Most likely between 10M - 20M Americans have been infected by Covid-19. Great job, President Trump!