Cancun Covid 19 Update

When they only test 61 people and of those 61 37 are positive it tells me they are not testing enough people and it is a lot more widespread than the numbers show. Maybe they are not as behind the curve as the original assumptions.

 

Only if the Covid deaths are attributed to Covid.

 

I don’t think that a problem in the states. It seems like that’s the default way they count them, even if they had many underlying conditions.

 

Two comments - First - even if there are severe underlying conditions that would have lead to death in the near term, the virus in many cases is accelerating that death, so IMHO it still counts. Plus, the way they are dying (no family at bedside, no funerals and the awful way the disease affects the lungs etc) would simply not have happened if the virus had not intervened. So, again in my opinion, it is more then valid to count them as being caused by the virus. Second- even if you think there is an over counting due to underlying conditions, it is pretty clear to me that there is an even larger undercounting - people that die at home, people who die but were never tested and more.

 

You're probably correct.

Not sure how no family at bedside, and no funerals get mixed into a stats post, but certainly does make the point that this is a horrible time. I went to a funeral of a high school friend a week ago. They only allowed 6 people in the room at a time, and we were separated from the family by a table, and no touching was allowed. I hate funerals, and that made it even more uncomfortable.

In our tech modern world we all want stats very quickly, and accurately. We keep getting told we need to "flatten the curve", but in actually it's just shown as a generic graph, no real numbers are put on in.

I don't dispute that the actual death counts are inaccurate. What is certainly the most inaccurate is the total number exposed, or affected that are asymptomatic. A number that would likely put a positive spin to where we currently are.