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Originally Posted by dave8721
We are seeing 3000 dead a day right now but I assume that is the last batch of the unvaccinated, unexposed population (and the very frail who die despite having been vaccinated/exposed previously).
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It depends on the place but in some places, a covid death is just a death with a positive test, and a covid hospitalization is just a hospitalization with a positive covid test. If a 7 year old goes in for foot surgery and happens to test positive for covid, in covid hospital count is incremented by 1. If a cancer patient happens to test positive for covid 2 weeks before dying of cancer, they are a covid death. Anyone who goes into a hospital is screened and they go there for one problem or another.
This does not mean that there aren't people still getting seriously ill but I'm not sure there is a clear end point that will be indicated by the "headline" statistics given the way they work. Perhaps a more reasonable assessment would add some context or "control" in the form of all-cause mortality and mortality from other factors.