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Re:WHO says Covid-19 pandemic is 'one big wave', not seasonal by DanBC on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @02:31PM (#23979122)
> > illnesses are less severe

> This is also false.

I agree it's false. One reason people think it's true is that very much more testing is happening, so we're seeing people with milder symptoms getting tested positive. Before they just wouldn't have been tested.

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Re:WHO says Covid-19 pandemic is 'one big wave', not seasonal by gridlockd on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @04:48PM (#23980545)
We've seen exponential growth curves of people dying before, it's not happening now. More tests or not, what gives?
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Re:WHO says Covid-19 pandemic is 'one big wave', not seasonal by perl4ever on Tuesday July 28, 2020 @05:37PM (#23980973)
It looks to me as though deaths in the US have been in an up trend since about July 1st (daily rate +70%), and globally since June 1st (daily rate +25%).

But the same thing is just not happening everywhere. People don't seem to accept that. You average in declining cases and deaths in NY, say, and it obscures what's happening in Texas. Same on an international scale.

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Re:WHO says Covid-19 pandemic is 'one big wave', not seasonal by gridlockd on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @03:44AM (#23984297)
> You average in declining cases and deaths in NY, say, and it obscures what's happening in Texas. Same on an international scale.

I am not. Look at the rate of change in daily deaths in NY versus Texas. It's a big difference.

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