There’s one crucial thing you overlooked in this: in 2020, most people hadn’t been infected, and hadn’t gotten the vaccine (because there was no vaccine until December,and even then it was in extremely short supply). Now, most people have some sort of immunity, be it from vaccine or from a prior infection. That definitely skews the hospitalization numbers downward. You can’t compare then and now, unfortunately, since there’s no real community that hasn’t been vaccinated and hasn’t caught it - and so you can’t compare their numbers.

[–] Chriskmee@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago (11 children)

That's fair, but I think you can still compare it to the flu, which is not that far off from covid percentage wise. At this point both the flu and covid should be at an equal level of people having vaccines and natural antibodies, right? Even if you go with covid being about twice as deadly as the flu, twice as deadly as almost nothing is still almost nothing.

[–] Mbourgon@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I’m sure “almost nothing” is quite comforting for the families of the 1.1 million Americans who died.

[–] Chriskmee@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

I'm sorry, but people die of lots of different things all the time, it sucks but it's a part of life

load more comments (9 replies)