Wednesday, September 8, 2021

Is the 7-Day Incidence Rate Going Away?

 Is the German government dumping the Covid 7-day incidence rate?  YES.  The only question left is when it occurs.

ARD (public TV) talked about this today.

What will exist instead?  A hospitalization rate related to each seven days.....will be the standard....related to each 100,000 folks in that area.

A necessity to change this?  No one is clear about this and some think that you can't claim the vaccinations changed much of anything, if you kept using the infection rate business developed in 2020.

Could you have one state or region with extraordinary low numbers?  Yes.  You could also have a highly urbanized area, with extraordinary high numbers.  

The odds that the hospitalization rate will be dumped by spring/summer of 2022?  Well.....just an educated guess on that, but I would put some odds that that it will change in some way.

Will some private clinics develop a Joe Rogan-style 'cocktail' for Covid folks who might have serious cases.....to avoid the hospitalization path?  Well....it wouldn't surprise me if this trend did start up.  

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