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To state the obvious, if you have a health care system that can't get more than that small part of the population tested, most Covid-19 cases and deaths are going to take place among the untested. As was the case in 1918, the epidemic causes a lot of deaths by heart failure and pneumonia. This is why we only have estimates from 1918--so many of the deaths were ascribed to those immediate causes of death. Although I didn't get the details, I did hear the tail end of an interview the other day reporting that deaths from heart failure are 400% higher than they ordinarily would be. I didn't catch the context--where it was, etc.--but the takeaway on this is that people are already doing these sorts of studies, and we'll hear much of this in the future, even if it's not going to be grabbing the headlines. That approach is going to give us the best real measure of the impact of the coronavirus . . . Or we can just embrace the BS cynically spread by officialdom and its self-serving right-wing apologists. _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
