Rolleratnight wrote:
The media is hyping this and not informing anybody. In any pandemic, it’s the deaths that are important to watch, not the “cases.” When any area starts to have more deaths than usual with no identifiable cause, this is when the epidemiologist get to work. 12 people have died in all of Costa Rica from COVID-19. If there was no COVID-19 and you tried to get Ticos riled up by telling them 12 more people than usual died you would be laughed at.
We know a lot more now than when this started in Wuhan. Women tend not to die from it. Google how many woman over 100 survived their COVID-19 illness! Then look at the mortality of men.
Dexamethasone was discovered by NHS in UK to significantly increase your survivability.
Still, the government and the media feed on fear and that is what allows them to have power over the people.
Don't buy that conspiracy. And as far as "deaths" vs. "cases". Epidemiologists look at new cases vs. total cases more than deaths in actuality. The deaths follow from cases and the age of those who catch it. And there is a lag between deaths and cases...many times 3 weeks to a month. Anyway, it is amazing how few deaths CR has had versus the total cases. May be in part because all their seniors are not living together in nursing homes and care homes...I'm not sure. But some credit has to be given to their hospital and health care system, I think.
The success with Dexamethasone was basically only with the severely ill patients, on ventilators mostly. It did not help, in fact it was a negative, for people with milder cases. So it is not going to change the need to try to avoid this disease. Less deaths hopefully, but still as serious a threat if it gets out of hand.
And...not trying to create another conspiracy here... but I wonder if they're counting all the deaths where people have Covid. A lot of places, even in the US, were missing a lot of deaths due to Covid for various reasons. Its easy, especially with older people, to attribute the death to aging or related issues, even if they are dying before they would have otherwise due to Covid.
In any case, none of this looks good for CR opening up on July 1 - and if you listen to what the health minister said, for sure it won't open up to Americans.