Chat about Novel Coronavirus - 2019-nCoV - COVID-19

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deleted in reply to @h2o

I'm sure that in the fullness of time we'll see that COVID-19 had less incremental deaths than it appears. It feels a lot like deaths are being brought forward for most people, which is really terrible but less terrible than killing people who had half their lives ahead of them.

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h2o in reply to @deleted

If hospitals are running at or over capacity, people who otherwise might have received treatment and lived may die. That's what the whole 'excess deaths' analysis tells us. Some of those people might have had half their lives ahead of them.

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deleted in reply to @h2o

I'm sure that will be the case but I just have a feeling that when we look back in a decade that there is a big spike and then a trough.

It's awful though and if I were sick with C19 and looking to lose my last year or two I'd feel rightly upset.

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