Up to 90% of people testing positive carry inconsequential amounts of the virus
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When COVID case counts surged in July, most “experts” said that — after a time delay — fatalities would surge, too.
They didn’t, causing a lot of head-scratching.
Now the consensus explanation for a statistically significant decline in the infection-to-fatality rate (IFR) is that (1) more asymptomatic people (i.e. minimally effected) were being tested (2) those testing positive were skewed to to younger age groups with IFR rates, and (3) more effective medical treatment and therapeutic drugs were saving more seriously effected patients.
The New York Times has served up a scientific explanation…
The Homa Files 