Re:Sweden’s low positive test rate ‘vindicates coronavirus s...
by matz1 on Thursday September 10, 2020 @08:29AM
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No, The decrease of death rate is because more testing done on more people. The more you test, the larger the number of asymptomatic/mild symptom case you have, thus decrease the death rate.
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Re:Sweden’s low positive test rate ‘vindicates coronavirus s...
by elcritch on Thursday September 10, 2020 @02:07PM
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I could see both, and likely both would need to be part of estimation. It's not binary, but likely, 20% due to mask lowering viral exposure loads, 50% due to more healthy people (hence asymptomatic) getting the virus.
However, that doesn't invalidate the overall comparisons. Countries like Sweden have a lowering death rate despite no broad mask wearing (https://fortune.com/2020/07/29/no-point-in-wearing-mask-swed...). You can see an example graph here: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/coronavirus-...