Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "Some states pause reopening after concerning surge in Covid-19 cases" video.

@MuraramaGaming death rate does matter. The whole point of shutting down was to put our healthcare system in a position to alleviate deaths. People are still going to die. No matter how hard we try. We try very hard to keep people from dying from cancer, heart disease, kidney failure, etc. but they still do. The whole goal was to keep deaths from rising which we have. My state was seeing around 10 to 15 deaths a day, now we are seeing less than 5 despite record new cases.
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@heyaisdabomb not that easy. How many of them are comorbidities? You talk about math but let us talk statistics. In statistics you have to weigh out the data. If someone dies from a heart failure while also having diabetes and has the virus, what role did the virus play? 10%? 20%? 5%? We do not know. Thus we make a range. If you look at deaths from the flu the CDC will give a number and than a range that ranges around 30% which is huge. Why? Most deaths had underlying conditions. What makes it hard to obtain accurate numbers is that one, 120,000 is actually a very small sample size of a nation of over 320 million people. Next, we do not have a control. It is not like we can bring these people back to life and then see how long they will live without the virus. But again, when you consider underlying conditions the death rate drops. So what math class did you graduate in?
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@romanr.301 or maybe the reach herd immunity. Noticed how those states were slammed hard at the beginning but then saw a sharp decrease. But in CA they shut down early and never saw a decrease. Wait a few weeks. Cases will drop as herd immunity will be met.
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@heyaisdabomb to add, consider how many got the virus but were not reported as they were never tested. You have to factor that in as well. Overall, when you start factoring in all the variables the death rate is less than a percent. Stanford professor John Ioannidis ran through the numbers and determined that if you are something like under 40 with no underlying conditions the chances of your dying is around 0.028%.
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@ronwealsey9733 the death rate is lower than 5% and the chances of long term conditions are low.
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