Initial Covid-19 infection rate may be 80 times greater than originally reported

Re:Initial Covid-19 infection rate may be 80 times greater t... by leereeves on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @05:35AM (#23625942)

Contrariwise, people are avoiding treatment for other illnesses for fear of catching COVID in a hospital. Many people are depressed or even suicidal. And people are less active, which aggravates other health problems. All of these factors could increase the number of deaths.

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Re:Initial Covid-19 infection rate may be 80 times greater t... by addicted on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @08:32AM (#23627110)

3 months of lower activity is not killing people in those 3 months.

Any effects will be felt on a much longer timeframe.

Most office workers have very sedentary lives anyways, that didn’t become significantly more sedentary when they replaced their drive with a walk to another room and working in an office with working in that room.

Throw in the fact that they are likely cooking more because restaurants and all were shut and not just having lunch delivered to their office, they may even be getting more activity in.

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Re:Initial Covid-19 infection rate may be 80 times greater t... by SifJar on Thursday June 25, 2020 @04:01AM (#23638039)

Plus no commute leaves more free time in the evenings for exercise etc. Obviously not everyone will be doing that, but anecdotally a few people I've talked to from work are going for more walks & cycles etc.

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Re:Initial Covid-19 infection rate may be 80 times greater t... by kolinko on Wednesday June 24, 2020 @05:49AM (#23626040)

If it was significant in comparison, we would not see a sharp drop in deaths after the lockdowns.

Do people get depressed and die because of a lovkdown? Sure, I got depressed as well. But the numbers show that this issue is far less than the number of people that would die otherwise.

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