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Covid-19 Is About to Become Much Less Deadly
Rising case numbers in the U.S. won’t necessarily translate into more fatalities.
Positivity isn’t as bad as it used to be.
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It can be discouraging to see U.S Covid-19 cases on the rise again, even as the country makes impressive progress in getting people vaccinated. But here’s some more reassuring news: There’s good reason to believe that cases won’t translate into deaths the way they have in the past.
No doubt, America’s reopening could be managed much better. It’s still too early, for example, to open up baseball stadiums to full, unmasked crowds, as Texas has done. Too many officials are doing stupid, hazardous things that pretty much guarantee more coronavirus cases, and hence unnecessary deaths.