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Originally Posted by AustinChief
Ok question for everybody...
Now that multiple reports are showing fatality rates for people under 50 to be equivalent to a bad flu season, what is the point in continued isolation of that demographic after our death rates plateau or start to fall?
Let's say we have already hit peak and the next few days we stay below 1000 deaths/day (this is not a prediction but a hypothetical). At what point do you ease restrictions on the extremely low risk people? We obviously can't shelter in place until a vaccine comes out. Do we wait until a treatment has been proven to be effective? Do we wait until a certain percentage of America has immunity? What is your metric?
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Because inpatient hospitalizations are taking up to 8 days before people recover. If a huge # of people contract the virus in a short time frame and require this level of care, people are going to die because we cannot physically room and care for that many people.