01-23-2021, 03:03 PM
Both of your posts are correct. I think in California we have seen the worst of it, variant or no. 30+% have had it, and the ones who have are more concentrated in high contact jobs. As long as society doesn't relax too much, too quickly, as our vaccination percentage increases, slowly at first but steadily getting quicker, we'll be able to get back to pretty normal by the summer.
It's hard to tease out worse mortality from a more virulent variant versus from an overloaded health system. The covid patient in October and the covid patient in December were receiving different levels of care, in the UK and CA. And particularly if the effect is only a few percentage points more lethal. I'm a bit skeptical, I'll wait for better data before worrying too much.
It's hard to tease out worse mortality from a more virulent variant versus from an overloaded health system. The covid patient in October and the covid patient in December were receiving different levels of care, in the UK and CA. And particularly if the effect is only a few percentage points more lethal. I'm a bit skeptical, I'll wait for better data before worrying too much.