• BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    But we’re not testing so we don’t really know, and it’s still really bad to get COVID even if you live. You don’t want any virus.

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      1 year ago

      While at-home testing kits are hard to come by now, and community testing is all but shut down, hospitals still have plenty of availability to run tests. If someone is admitted as an inpatient to a hospital for respiratory issues so severe they end in death, there is an overwhelming likelihood that patient is getting tested for COVID. Particularly due to their legal liability for allowing someone to die due to an undiagnosed infection.

      So yeah, we don’t have good numbers for a raw number of active community infections anymore, but the fatality numbers should still be around as accurate as they ever were.

      Completely agree on your other points though!