I agree that it is dropping. Our health care system met the challenge of a pandemic allowed to spread like wildfire due to failed leadership. “The mortality rates are way lower now,” said Dr. Robert A. Phillips, chief physician executive at Houston Methodist and author of a research letter in JAMA that compared the first and second surges of Covid-19 patients in Houston. But he emphasized that the disease remains “not only deadly — 10 times more deadly probably than a bad influenza — but it also has long-term complications. You don’t have that from the flu.” I hope that gives extra comfort to the families of the 5,000 people who died from President Pandemic's Plague this week.
