COVID-19 My Observations and Chats with Lucy

Some observations:

• The median age of death in both cases is 78 yrs.  Life expectancy in the US according to the CDC is 78 yrs.  https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/life-expectancy.htm
• The mortality rate dropped.

When I ran with Lucy right after the 4th of July, she said anecdotally, she’s been seeing a lot more patients in their 20s and 30s.  She expected the median age of death for COVID to start dropping with 2-3 weeks.  This is because of the protests and 4th of July celebrations and it takes about 2-3 weeks from the time the symptoms show up, until complications and eventually death.  However, as of 7/28/2020, it was still 78 yrs and they are no longer reporting the median age of death.

I ran with Lucy on Saturday and we were talking about Trump and his handling of Coronavirus.  I said I thought he’s doing well and glad he shut down travel from China in January as early as he did.  No one else would have had the guts to do that.

She responded that research shows that the virus came in through Europe, not China.  My response is it’s because travel was shut down from China or we would have seen it from there sooner than we did.

She also said research shows that the virus was spread due to businesses opening up and not from the protests (as she had originally thought).  I said that I would need to see that research to confirm it wasn’t biased.