DGS49
Diamond Member
This constant harping on the daily number of "new cases" is a wild distortion or reality, intended to make the CV-19 situation look much worse than it actually is, probably for political purposes. It is like whining about the number of strikeouts by a team that is in first place.
"For the vast majority of the people testing positive, their illness is mild or they donāt even have symptoms,ā said Dr. Donald Yealy, UPMCās senior medical director and chair of emergency medicine. āThis is why we watch the hospitalization rate and the need for intensive care, and those numbers are down. This indicates that the people in our communities who are most vulnerable to the disease arenāt getting it ā and those who are tend to be the least affected.ā
But what does he know? He's only a doctor.
UPMC Urges āChanging Mindsetā to Focus on Severity of Illness, not Frequency of COVID-19 Infections - UPMC & Pitt Health Sciences News Blog
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"For the vast majority of the people testing positive, their illness is mild or they donāt even have symptoms,ā said Dr. Donald Yealy, UPMCās senior medical director and chair of emergency medicine. āThis is why we watch the hospitalization rate and the need for intensive care, and those numbers are down. This indicates that the people in our communities who are most vulnerable to the disease arenāt getting it ā and those who are tend to be the least affected.ā
But what does he know? He's only a doctor.