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  • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    But there's a lag right? The peak of new cases and peak of deaths shouldn't have occurred together right? So what's the number going to look like a week or two from now?

      • want_tobegood [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        deaths are up. They're just not up as quickly as they were earlier in the year (due to vaxes).

    • want_tobegood [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      So what’s the number going to look like a week or two from now?

      the same. Mortality rate is total deaths/total cases.

      the only way the mortality rate would get worse in a matter of days is if hospitals started running out of oxygen like in India. India's fiasco in May was 100% down to poor management + lack of resources of the UK-Kent variant, not anything to do with the new Delta one.

        • want_tobegood [comrade/them]
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          3 years ago

          Yes, but by the time those later cases die, there will be even more new cases added to the list. Also this stuff was all relative (to the mortality rate of 2020) so it doesn't really matter

          but yes the true mortality rate could only be figured in a hospital study or something like that.