Increased testing between 2020 and 2021 should simply be course-correcting the actual CFR. If in 2020 we weren't testing enough to learn of all of the cases, and in 2021 we have a better idea, then we should in theory be closer to the actual CFR than we were in 2020. the 2021 numbers should be more reliable, and the sign change between the two years should be indicative of future trends in CFR when more data comes in.
These charts show elderly Asians to be the most vulnerable group for covid but the media has not made anything of it at all. Wonder why it is never mentioned?
I think of COVID like a piece of straw put on the back of mortality- without COVID, about 600,000 Americans would be living right now that aren't. However, those 600,000 would not be alive a year or two from now if COVID hadn't ever appeared.
Increased testing between 2020 and 2021 should simply be course-correcting the actual CFR. If in 2020 we weren't testing enough to learn of all of the cases, and in 2021 we have a better idea, then we should in theory be closer to the actual CFR than we were in 2020. the 2021 numbers should be more reliable, and the sign change between the two years should be indicative of future trends in CFR when more data comes in.
These charts show elderly Asians to be the most vulnerable group for covid but the media has not made anything of it at all. Wonder why it is never mentioned?
I think of COVID like a piece of straw put on the back of mortality- without COVID, about 600,000 Americans would be living right now that aren't. However, those 600,000 would not be alive a year or two from now if COVID hadn't ever appeared.