March Madness and Covid-19

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Eielson said:
Meaning they don't have diabetes, hypertension, etc? If so, 6% is actually higher than I would have guessed. We all know perfectly healthy people aren't dropping dead in high numbers from this.
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Yes, that is my understanding. 6% is still pretty low. I see 183k total COVID deaths in the US. That would mean only about 11k of them didn't have any obvious or known diseases.

The other side of this would be that most Americans probably have SOMETHING wrong with them, even if diagnosed.
 
WTSooner said:
Yes, that is my understanding. 6% is still pretty low. I see 183k total COVID deaths in the US. That would mean only about 11k of them didn't have any obvious or known diseases.

The other side of this would be that most Americans probably have SOMETHING wrong with them, even if diagnosed.
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I wonder how other countries are handling this? One would think that most countries want to limit the cases they publish to make it look like they are doing a better job
 
SoonerBounce13 said:
I wonder how other countries are handling this? One would think that most countries want to limit the cases they publish to make it look like they are doing a better job
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We definitely aren't the most transparent country.
 
SoonerBounce13 said:
overall transparency (however they even measure that)does not equal covid transparency.
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Ok cool, I'm sure there's no correlation between the 2. I mean Trump tried to have Americans on a cruise ship not counted so it wouldn't "hurt" our numbers.
 
WTSooner said:
Yes, that is my understanding. 6% is still pretty low. I see 183k total COVID deaths in the US. That would mean only about 11k of them didn't have any obvious or known diseases.

The other side of this would be that most Americans probably have SOMETHING wrong with them, even if diagnosed.
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About half the country has hypertension, so no, 6% is not low at all. That's just one comorbidity by itself without adding on everything else including diabetes, COPD, dementia, etc. If they count psychiatric stuff like depression and anxiety...
 
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BCSooners said:
We definitely aren't the most transparent country.
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We're absurdly ahead of any other superpower in terms of transparency. Most countries that are clearly more transparent have populations comparable to individual states.
 
Eielson said:
About half the country has hypertension, so no, 6% is not low at all. That's just one comorbidity by itself without adding on everything else including diabetes, COPD, dementia, etc. If they count psychiatric stuff like depression and anxiety...
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To add even more facepalm to that statistic, I just heard from a colleague that obesity is one of the comoribidities mentioned. 2/3 Americans are overweight.
 
Eielson said:
We're absurdly ahead of any other superpower in terms of transparency. Most countries that are clearly more transparent have populations comparable to individual states.
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Well only Russia & China would fit that comparison, so yeah we’re more transparent than those 2.
 
BCSooners said:
Well only Russia & China would fit that comparison, so yeah we’re more transparent than those 2.
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I think that's a more apt comparison than to countries with similar populations to the state of Oklahoma.
 
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