Again, and not at all surprising, hcap totally misses the point.
You have two groups of patient.
Group 1 - have COVID and NO pre-existing conditions or other complications.
Group 2 - have COVID and HAVE complicating factors, age, other illnesses.....
So what if death rate for Group 1 is significantly lower than that of Groups 2?
It make no sense to mitigate both groups the same way.
Now, what is in Group 2, there is a Group 3 - those with the added risk and in nursing homes? And that death rate is through the roof.
Treat COVID as if it is one disease impacting everyone the same way is nonsense. I am in Groups 2. I should be more cautious than those in Group 1.
But to penalize those in Group 1 the same as me, is nonsense.
Looking only at the curve for Group 1 will give a better picture of the COVID in and of itself.
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