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The number I track is # of deaths vs # of positive tests.

That percentage is still fairly low (though anything above zero is too high). Cutting that a bit further it is interesting to see that many are already advanced age. There was a case a couple of days ago in RVA initially reported as COVID. Then it was revised to COVID-like symptoms. More info revealed it to be a 94 year old in palliative care. Sad, but somewhat explainable

The interesting aspect is overweight/type 2 diabetes. While not exclusive, one has to wonder if that is a weaker part of our population that the virus attacks.

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