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02/08/21

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Originally posted by hersuit: ↑

@thecurious1...time will tell.

But this obsession with case rates is misleading ...its the hospitalizations and deaths that matter - surely you agree?

And referring to the article above that sought to hype this for their own purposes was this para: (underline is mine)

"Spencer Fox, associate director of the University of Texas COVID-19 Modeling Consortium, said he was surprised Texas had not passed New York in mortality sooner, since the northeastern state did a far better job limiting the spread of virus after it endured a horrific surge last spring.
“They enacted really strong, precautionary measures that overall are well based in the available science,” Fox said. “It seems that many of the Texas policies were put in place to try and prevent health care collapse rather than trying to prevent transmission.”

Now...cast your mind back to the very beginning...the mantra was "suppress the curve"...ensure the hospital system can cope...this above all else was the policy basis

Was meant to last 15 days but its now seemingly endless but thats another story

But you can see even the author seemed to grasp the policy focus in the liberated states even if he was too dense or biased to see that he was making the very argument we were convinced of and what worked - at least as well if not a lot better - than in those that panicked and shut places don tight as a drum

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"its the hospitalizations and deaths that matter - surely you agree?"

Time ? It didn't take 2 weeks for the case number surge effects to become evident.

"Florida Breaks Record For COVID-19 Hospitalizations

The sunshine state is now leading the nation in per capita hospitalizations. This follows Florida on Saturday recording the most new daily cases since the pandemic’s start.

Throughout Florida, from Jacksonville to Miami to Tampa, hospitals have become overwhelmed.

Barry Burton, the Pinellas County administrator, told the Tampa Bay Times that some local hospitals are already having to divert ambulances to different locations because of capacity concerns."

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/florida-breaks-covid-19-hospitalization-record_n_6106f27ce4b0048f361e873c
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