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Originally Posted by tooge
the virus has attenuated. That's been confirmed by several studies. In fact, it's mutation that led to it's attenuation is almost identical to the mutation of Sars1 that basically caused it to "go away." This information about deaths decreasing is not surprising. Part of it is certainly because providers are better at treating it, but IMO, most of it is the fact that the virus has attenuated. We should se this trend continue, all while case numbers rise, as the attenuated version of the virus out competes the non attenuated version for hosts. This happens quickly because people that are less symptomatic or asymptomatic (have the attenuated version) aren't self isolating and those with symptoms generally are.
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It's possible that virus has attenuated that much. But it also could be some combination of warmer weather, masks leading to lower initial viral load, older/at-risk people isolating better, and better treatments.
I know two ICU doctors on another forum who say it's like night and day how they treat people now vs. back in April - when they put people on vents right away, and lost a ton of people due to not proactively treating for potential blood clots in the lungs.