Een interessant artikel over de schijnbare discrepantie tussen nieuwe besmettingen (exponentiele stijging) en sterftecijfers (stabilisering) in de USA.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/07/02/o...itz/index.html
Veel mogelijke redenen, maar meest waarschijnlijke:
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Recent work -- done not by the federal government but rather by reporters at The New York Times -- has pulled together data that could show a cogent single "reason" for the change: nursing homes.
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Dus eigenlijk hetzelfde als bij ons: vooral sterfte in rusthuizen.
En in tegenstelling tot bij ons worden die in de US zeer gebrekkig geteld.
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means that a crucial issue affecting mortality is whether the raging epidemic in Southern states will result in the virus further spreading into nursing homes.
Because there is no mandatory reporting of cases by nursing homes, as well as the suggestion that some states have not been forthcoming about their nursing home cases, the only way to estimate what's ahead is to examine cases and rates among persons 65 years old and older. Of course, most of the approximately 50 million people in the US in this age group are not in chronic care facilities, which provide care to about 1.3 million Americans, but most who are in chronic care facilities are in this age group.
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