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Re:Studies Point to Big Drop in Covid-19 Death Rates by AndrewBissell on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @08:30PM (#24843753)
Agreed, however the media has been singularly focused on new cases as a measure of the pandemic's severity. To me the news here is as much "NPR reports on the falling COVID death rate."

Even here they seem insistent that the lower death rate is attributable to "flattening the curve" even though there's almost no correlation at this point.

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Re:Studies Point to Big Drop in Covid-19 Death Rates by inyourtenement on Tuesday October 20, 2020 @09:32PM (#24844043)
What are you referring to? The bulk of the article is about hospitals having more experience and standardizing protocols. Then they mention masks and social distancing as possibly reducing the viral load. They never mention "flattening the curve", but one of the last things they mention is keeping hospitals under capacity.
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