Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[vivster]

last92 said:

vivster said:
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/04/28/us/coronavirus-death-toll-total.html

So many uncounted deaths in the US. Looks like they have at least 50% more deaths than official numbers.

Do we know what happens if uninsured citizens get infected? Do they still need to pay astronomically high fees if they get hospitalized? If that's the case, many people dying without getting hospitalized wouldn't be surprising at all.

It's natural to assume that there are a lot of people who won't go to the hospital because they fear the bills. People being more afraid of hospitals than a deadly virus is pretty sad. There are probably also a ton of people who just die fast in their own homes due to comorbidities.

In any way, I've been saying it for weeks, but the death rates and case number curves do not match what's been going on in the country. They just need way more testing.