I live in the state, the Washington Compost as usual leave out a lot of things that would have presented a clearer picture on what happened.
The worst hit areas are the main entry point of Chinese visitors, that the City of Seattle have a lot of old people, and those of underlying isues. Now that the easily sickened and killed people have become rather rare, the serius infection and death rate would naturally fall off.
The herd immunity was going to happen even if most were sick, it would be MILD for most people. The state shutdown was overdone and stupid, since the COVID-19 death rate is actually very low for those under 60 without an underlying health problem.
Here is what
THIS LINK shows on how few people ever reach critical illness stage, most end up being mildly to not visibly sick when infected.
Active Cases
1,201,786
Currently Infected Patients
1,151,682 (
96%)
n Mild Condition
50,104 (
4%)
Serious or Critical
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It used to be 87% Mild to 13% critical, it has been improving slowly for weeks, changed from 95%-5% two days ago.
Shutting down the economy was never a necessary decision, but fear drove it due to manufactured fear and stupidity.
Your partisan attack is worthless and stupid, stop doing it!