Throughout COVID, any reporting of good news has been criticized as "COVID denial" that might cause people to "let down their guard" and subsequently die.
Thus, we have not paid attention to patterns that could indicate targeted policies to minimize deaths.
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Examples:
* Very low fatality rate in children.
* Cases/hosps/deaths come in waves, at different times in different places.
* These waves have nearly the same shape/duration everywhere.
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* We've never seen cases/hosps/deaths increase once they start plunging (except a minor double peak).
* Once a region exits a wave, they get several months of low activity before the next wave.
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