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<blockquote data-quote="NotAYakk" data-source="post: 8167083" data-attributes="member: 72555">It is currently between 0.1% and 0.2%, not 1%.In areas where it mass infects it hits around 1%.Death rates have fallen.&nbsp; Apparently mostly because doctors are no longer trying crazy treatments en mass, and just accepting a large fraction of people on vents die; with crazy treatments, more died.&nbsp; And I think they found like 1 or 2 non-garbage treatments. (The next time you have some expert talk about novel treatments remember this.&nbsp; Doctors are people, and they want to do something to prevent death, so they try.&nbsp; And often it fails.&nbsp; When about 50% death is baseline, it is hard to tease out if your intervention helped or hindered.)Manhatten is well passed 30% infected, but short of 100%.&nbsp; Dakotas are also up there now; they are approaching 0.2% total population dead with only a modest slow down in death rates.Vaccinations should reduce death rates faster than it does infection rates, as we innoculate the vulnerable first.&nbsp; So hopefully the next wave (in places where the first stopped) won't be as deadly.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="NotAYakk, post: 8167083, member: 72555"] It is currently between 0.1% and 0.2%, not 1%. In areas where it mass infects it hits around 1%. Death rates have fallen. Apparently mostly because doctors are no longer trying crazy treatments en mass, and just accepting a large fraction of people on vents die; with crazy treatments, more died. And I think they found like 1 or 2 non-garbage treatments. (The next time you have some expert talk about novel treatments remember this. Doctors are people, and they want to do [I]something[/I] to prevent death, so they try. And often it fails. When about 50% death is baseline, it is [B]hard[/B] to tease out if your intervention helped or hindered.) Manhatten is well passed 30% infected, but short of 100%. Dakotas are also up there now; they are approaching 0.2% total population dead with only a modest slow down in death rates. Vaccinations should reduce death rates faster than it does infection rates, as we innoculate the vulnerable first. So hopefully the next wave (in places where the first stopped) won't be as deadly. [/QUOTE]

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