> If that is the death rate for people who need ventilators then a lot of the arguments for "flattening the curve" are less compelling.

edit - to the downvoters who refuse to read anything before downvoting, here you go:

Boston 25 News: "According to a story in The Washington Post, autopsies are showing that many people who died from the COVID-19 virus have hundreds of microclots present in their lungs at the time they die. The autopsies were not revealing pneumonia as was expected, but lung damage from blood clots and the damage was appearing in the kidneys, liver, heart, intestines and brain, the Post story reported."

This is the death rate of people being incorrectly treated. If you treat patients thinking that pneumonia is their primary problem, putting them on ventilators, when the primary problem is that they have microclots in their lungs and you fail to treat the clots (which has been the case until very recently), you're going to kill a large percentage of those patients.

Tens of thousands of patients have died because the medical system somehow didn't notice the large volume of blood clots in patients.

It's the blood clots causing the high mortality rates, sudden deaths that are difficult to account for, and the oxygen problems re the lungs. They're finally beginning to address this by immediately treating patients with blood thinners. The virus causes an extreme increase in inflammation, which is causing blood clots including in the lungs which is causing oxygen deprivation.

A horrific mistake has been made over the past few months of just ventilating everyone with breathing problems, when it was the blood clots in the lungs causing the problem. They tried to solve the wrong problem.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-usa-bl...

https://www.livescience.com/coronavirus-blood-clots.html

https://www.boston25news.com/news/trending/coronavirus-are-b...

About a thousand articles are out there over the last week about this.