" April 2020 numbers might be inflated as we didn’t know much about care at that time (overuse of ventilators, etc.)." Which still describes the current standard of care. It seems like ventilators were "rediscovered" over the summer in most of the US. But the only way to measure this is with a million different glimpses at behind-closed-doors decisions. Compare for example the infection / hospitalization / ICU waves for California last winter and this summer. Hospitalizations are ever a fluid metric, as I remarked in the prior post - so are deaths.
" April 2020 numbers might be inflated as we didn’t know much about care at that time (overuse of ventilators, etc.)." Which still describes the current standard of care. It seems like ventilators were "rediscovered" over the summer in most of the US. But the only way to measure this is with a million different glimpses at behind-closed-doors decisions. Compare for example the infection / hospitalization / ICU waves for California last winter and this summer. Hospitalizations are ever a fluid metric, as I remarked in the prior post - so are deaths.