I suppose the mortality rate could go up if the healthcare system in a particular area is fully overwhelmed, such that significant number of normally treatable cases end up in death rather than recovery. The morbidity rate is probably less affected though.
Re:First human case of avian flu in Texas
by michaelmrose on Monday April 01, 2024 @03:43PM
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In normal times the experienced mortality rate is based on most of the sickest people receiving supportive care in the hospital that greatly blunts mortality rate.
When your medical needs exceed resources mortality rate converges toward untreated mortality rate.
Try this on for size what is the untreated mortality rate of a single gunshot wound to the chest. Its close to 100% but the overwhelming majority survive with prompt treatment. You wouldn't say that the mortality rate was what it is.
Huh? Mortality rate is the mortality rate, its independent of a lockdown; unless more vulnerable people are "locking down" at rates different than less vulnerable ones, but at that point we're not talking about a "lockdown".
The purpose of the COVID lockdown wasn't to suppress the mortality rate; it was to suppress the total infected/mortality.