{"id":167526,"date":"2020-08-31T12:00:22","date_gmt":"2020-08-31T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=167526"},"modified":"2020-12-02T09:59:57","modified_gmt":"2020-12-02T09:59:57","slug":"covid-just-a-casedemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2020\/08\/covid-just-a-casedemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid: Just a \u201cCasedemic\u201d?"},"content":{"rendered":"

24 Aug 2020 –<\/em>Many critics believe covid has turned into a mere \u201ccasedemic\u201d, as positive tests (\u201ccases\u201d) are rising in many European countries while hospitalizations and deaths stay very low.<\/p>\n

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The reality is that covid is a casedemic on top of a pandemic. \u201cCases\u201d are currently rising in Europe due to routine testing at airports, offices, schools and among family contacts, catching mostly younger low-risk people with mild or asymptomatic disease (hence no hospitalizations).<\/p>\n

(Moreover, some of these tests are false-positives or non-infectious RNA fragments of an earlier infection, causing unnecessary quarantine and tracing trouble, while the real infection rate is about ten times higher than daily PCR tests show, anyway.)<\/p>\n

However, antibody levels are still very low in most of previously locked-down Europe, including notably the German-speaking countries (2% antibodies<\/a>), Scandinavia except Sweden, but also large parts of Italy<\/a>, France and Spain as well as England outside of the London area.<\/p>\n

Thus, there can be little doubt that increasing \u201ccases\u201d will soon translate into increasing hospitalizations and deaths in high-risk groups. Masks and \u201ccontact tracing\u201d won\u2019t prevent this<\/a> (as France and Spain already show). It is likely that Europe will panic a second time.<\/p>\n

What can (and should) be done is the targeted protection of high-risk groups and early or prophylactic treatment<\/a> of people at high risk or high exposure to prevent progression of the disease. As most authorities ignore both, people are on their own.<\/p>\n

The British ONS recently published the age-adjusted<\/em> January to July mortality statistics<\/a>. While the 2020 covid increase is clearly visible, mortality is comparable to pre-2009 levels. Oxford CEBM professor Carl Heneghan explained that<\/a> the covid IFR dropped to 0.3% by the end of July and the pandemic may end up \u201cno worse than a bad flu season\u201d.<\/p>\n

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UK: Age-adjusted mortality (ONS<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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