@teslanaut the number of new cases fluctuate from day to day. Some people try to "tough it out" as they approach the weekend only to spike on the weekend. It can also be from bursts of people getting sick from a specific superspreader event. That's why sites like covidactnow.org use several-day running averages for their graphs, so they can smoothe it out a bit.
@anornymorse @teslanaut death rates are going down absolutely. The trouble though is that many people need medical care(oxygen & meds) to survive. If we let this spread unregulated, hospitals would get overrun and the death rates would skyrocket.
We saw this in both China and Italy. The hospitals got overrun, people died, and panic nearly set in.
All because of a media campaign demonizing Hydroxychloroquine.
@anornymorse @teslanaut the data shows that remdesevir works far better than HCQ. But yes, we are improving our therapeutics, that's a big part of why the death rate is declining.
Ventilator use is a damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-dont situation. The people who get put on them would 100% die without them, but only 30% of people who end up on one survive. It's tough.
