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To: Winfastorlose who wrote (9605)	5/2/2020 5:42:00 PM
From: Investor2	1 Recommendation Recommended By benwood Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26463

Covid-19 damages multiple organs; it's not just a respiratory disease. Best wishes, I2

To: Winfastorlose who wrote (9605)	5/3/2020 1:14:55 PM
From: benwood	Respond to of 26463

That doesn't mean it is medically incorrect. Nor does it mean the overall numbers aren't actually low even after doing that. I'm not making any assumptions; rather, I believe medical professionals do the best they can given what they know and their own personal training and experience. Getting something correct after the fact is supposed to be par for the course and I believe is actually considered best practice. This won't be universally true of course; but on the whole, I think it is true in the vast majority of cases and dominates the numbers. It's to be expected that the political meddling has caused a lot of distrust. That comes from the top. Not every country has it's fearless leaders messing with people's minds. Down in the trenches, if I'm the analyst who runs the database or spreadsheet and I discover a cell with a computational error which is used in official statistics, I'm going to fix it and report it. These are humans trying to make all this work and they make mistakes, and if they are worth anything, they will strive to repair mistakes and improve accuracy every step of the way. If it makes the number go down, then our politically driven response will have people crying foul. If it makes the number go up, then our politically driven response will have people crying foul. But in a well run response, the politicians won't be at the center, the scientists will. Of course, in the US, the scientists have been maligned for the past three years, so allowing that would blow the minds of many in the country. This interesting piece I read comparing political versus scientifically lead responses (Seattle, my hometown, versus NYC, which has been a disaster): newyorker.com