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BlackDra90n posted...

Expanded testing also means that you're getting more people that are asymptomatic or with mild cases that might not require hospitalizations in addition to detecting more severe cases early. You're right that there's a lot of factors at play here though, so it's hard to say what the numbers will look like since we don't know the exact breakdown of things until they occur.

Well yeah, but that's an argument in favor of "rising cases is not something we actually need to worry about very much" (my position), not "OMG rising cases SHUTDOWN EVERYTHING NOW!" (the mainstream position)

The mainstream position is that the cases to deaths ratio has not significantly changed, and therefore rising cases will lead to an equivalent relative rise in deaths, and the fact that it obviously has not yet is just a factor of timing.

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