(08-06-2021, 05:02 AM)kalakoa Wrote: " substantial number of these deaths were basically inevitable."
UMMM... really hate to break it to all of you, but for each of us (taking a great leap here, & presuming this audience is mainly mortals), death is "basically inevitable"
As the Delta variant spreads, the "age at death" is going down (there are a few reasons for this but it is worth realizing that we ARE seeing folks die that are younger & have no previous known conditions....by next month, we will know more on how this weeks ʻcandidatesʻ fare... but that is kinda the point... in a month ~ 10% of this weeks reported will have been hospitalized & ~1% will have died)...
AND more than "mild" symptoms & long COVID are increasing in the younger populations... plus the routine COVID hospital stays & ICU stays for those that survive are so dramatically longer than the more "average" hospital stays...
Here is some info for those that need to see it:
https://www.infectioncontroltoday.com/vi...ta-variant