News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:AstraZeneca Scientist Says Delta Variant Makes Herd Immun... by nradov on Thursday August 12, 2021 @11:10PM (#28164965)
Your numbers are way off. The CDC estimates that since the start of the pandemic the hospitalization rate has been 5% and the fatality rate has been 0.6%. Of the hospitalized patients only a fraction needed high-end medical intervention such as mechanical ventilation.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

The hospitalization and fatality rates are far lower now for vaccinated people.

Re:AstraZeneca Scientist Says Delta Variant Makes Herd Immun... by rstuart4133 on Friday August 13, 2021 @09:23PM (#28176894)
0.6% die, and some rather rubbery number end up with symptoms lasting from 6 weeks, or 6 months, or something. The rubbery number is sometimes quoted as 1/3 of people who enter hospital, which if 5% enter hospital would mean about 2% of the population die or are so incapacitated they can't work for some number of months. By comparison, just about everybody hospitalised for flu is fully recovered in 2 weeks. https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/long-covid

2% is getting up there. Even if 75% avoid that fate by getting vaccinated, incapacitating 2% of the remainder will be enough to send us into a deep recession.