Yes, it will be an ever changing thing. I'm not sure why that is relevant, though. That doesn't change the fact that as of last Sunday it was 5.8%. Simple math will give you the correct answer every time. 4012 and conservative media have been propagating a lie that the mortality rate is 1.4%. That is simply not true and not even close to true.storewanderer wrote: ↑May 4th, 2020, 10:10 pm That 5.8% will be an ever-changing figure.
For instance in my county there are currently 988 cases and 35 deaths. So about a 3.5% death rate. Now break it down further. 19 of those 35 deaths are linked to an outbreak at a single nursing home in Reno. 86 of those 988 cases came out of that nursing home. So less than 10% of cases in Reno originated in a single building in Reno and account for more than 50% of the deaths. I think similar situations play out across the country. So the percentages are what they are, but for the everyday person on the street who catches this virus, they do not have a 3.5% death rate. For the person stuck in a nursing home who catches the virus they have a 50% death rate. Yikes.
I'm also disturbed that those same sources of 'information' seem to be saying that the cases in nursing homes shouldn't be counted or are not important because those victims are old and would presumably die anyways. Not all patients in nursing homes die there. More important, it is inhumane to treat our elderly as though their lives don't matter.
It also doesn't take into account that at many nursing homes the workers account for a large percentage of cases, often the majority. And the death rate is substantially more than 5.8% for those workers.