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Originally Posted by Fisherdan
Deena Hinshaw has repeatedly said most people will endure mild symptoms.
CDC says 4.9% death rate? Let’s forget about cdc for a minute and just look at Alberta. Why?
1. Everyone on this forum is familiar with how things have gone in this province.
2. We’ve had more testing than anywhere in Canada, and perhaps North America since day 1.
So far, 8067 confirmed cases in Alberta with 154 deaths. That’s a 1.9% mortality rate. However, there are currently 559 active cases with 41 in ICU. Not everyone in ICU will make it. Suppose 20 don’t... that bumps the mortality rate in Alberta to 2.2%.
A big thing to consider however, is that 8067 confirmed cases does not mean 8067 total cases. We don’t know what the total case numbers are, but it is certainly much higher than 8067.
Not trying to poo-poo the virus, but the facts, at least here in Alberta where our health care has done a tremendous job, don’t jive with some of the scarier numbers and headlines that are floating around out there.
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So what you are effectively saying is to treat the virus seriously, keep infections down so hospitals are not flooded and in turn that keeps the death rate far lower like in Canada when compared that doing nothing or minimal efforts like in the US currently?
Yes...some people can’t get it through there heads that the reason why it’s not horrible in Canada is because of effort made.
It is not occurring less deadly on its own but rather due to substantial efforts to contain.