03-06-2020, 09:57 PM
(03-06-2020, 09:37 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Here's the thing, they can't really know. Most of the people who die, have pre-existing health issues. Hard to predict accurately what portion of the people who contract the virus will be ones with pre-existing health problems, and which ones are generally healthy and will not even know if they have it.
Of course the virus is more deadly with say elderly, weakened or somehow unhealthy people. As are illnesses in general. A lethality case does not need to take this into account, count elderly or otherwise ailing people as "half-deaths" or whatever. The accuracy of the WHO number is not affected by the fact that, yeah, young healthy people are less likely to die from the coronavirus then older or less healthy people. I don't know what this adds to the issue at hand.
The WHO number still is not "false" in any way. It still relates reported cases to reported deaths, and I'd say it's safe to assume that those deaths, possible misdiagnosis neglected (but that argument can go both ways anyway) were ultimately caused by the virus and not any "pre-existing condition". It is fair to point to the fact that there might be a bigger number of actual cases, compared to the reported cases, and many experts point to that and assume with caution that the real lethality might be somehow lower. But that still gives the president no reason to call the WHO number "false" and instead put his own "hunches" out there. You don't deal with a health crisis by throwing out completely unfounded hunches just willy-nilly in an attempt to downplay it. It seems quite strange to even have to say that.
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