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Knobcrk1
“Our results suggest that the overwhelming effects of COVID-19 may have less to do with the virus’ lethality and more to do with how quickly it was able to spread through communities initially,” Silverman explained. “A lower fatality rate coupled with a higher prevalence of disease and rapid growth of regional epidemics provides an alternative explanation to the large number of deaths and overcrowding of hospitals we have seen in certain areas of the world.”
Your own articles go against you. “herd immunity” means mass deaths as it overwhelms the system. It’s literally in your article. Keep trying.
Nah, I don't think so. Even in NYC, they didn't use the temporary hospitals or Navy ships. It's not necessarily about hospital capacity, although that theoretically could be an issue (although I'd argue it hasn't actually been yet).
We first need to know
how to treat the disease, which we didn't initially and seem to be very slow to understand even now. Meaningfully effective treatments for covid are relatively simple (compared to invastive ventilators), but still require basic hospital capacity and
timely treatment. Hospital capacity (including emergency capacity) has not been in serious question in the US yet, but effective treatment and protection of vulnerable populations certainly has.