I don't see any evidence of that...
Overall, the global totals in resolved cases... show close to 4% mortality, in total, over time...
That's almost exactly what I predicted was likely, back in January... when almost everyone was in denial that there was any real problem.
Current cases, globally, show less than 1% of total cases (about 0.8%) are serious or critical. And, of that less than one percent, a good number, a still growing number, are likely to recover. That's pretty typical for what you'd expect to see happening, as the systems gain experience in dealing with the problem... and new tools and drugs are added to the quiver, to enable better outcomes.
In the U.S., the variance from global experience, for now, looks like it bumps that up to about 0.84%...
But, in the U.S., there's still a considerable resistance to "doing what works" on the part of some political partisans... who continue work to refuse to allow some states to provide the new treatments... We even have the insanity of a VP candidate saying she won't take a vaccine to prevent the virus... if its a "Trump" vaccine ?
Chalk some of that up to Darwin Award material if you like... but, the impact, relative to the globe, doesn't appear to be statistically significant... Perhaps other countries do a better job of keeping their lunatics out of politics and out of roles giving them power over policy formulation ? Or, maybe they only do better at keeping the fact of that sort of craziness from being reported in the newspapers. Statistics suggest its the later. |
