Excellent article and very encouraging. The fatality rate drop they point to is staggering - down to 7%-8%. I dont think I've ever seen a claim like that before, but it seems two independent studies on either side of the Atlantic have findings to that effect.
Important points made n the wearing of face masks and reducing viral load and the point that keeping hospitals free of becoming overwhelemed underpins the figures as much as any therapeutics....which is why the murdering ball bags in Downing Street have cost us dearly in the coming period.
It’s a simple game management plan mate, defence and attack. Defence is your own precautions, attack is the therapeutics and treatment we’ve learned may help if they are required, it’s ever improving, but of course variable and subjective, case by case.
Reading all these pages, people are over complicating Covid, it’s a virus, it’ instincts are primal and based on survival, to survive it has to infect and reinfect. There isn’t just one hotspot, pubs, schools, shops uni, work. It’s pretty simple congregating with people you have a chance of being infected, more so if the infection rates are high. It really is that simple. Then you are into knock on of systems getting overwhelmed etc.
Spring time was the dry run for infections, we lucked out that wave 1 was in March in the spring heading into the summer, this Autumn/winter was always going to be Europe’s Stalingrad and darkest period of this and so it’s proving, we’ve been planning for it in the health service here since April. Most countries certainly in Europe will be in lock down or a diet form within the week/forthnight.
