In other countries -- particularly Italy -- the infection curve jumped WAY up early on, stayed there for a short time, and then began to rapidly drop back toward the baseline.
But not here.It "reached a peak" relatively early, but then fell back down only partially, stayed that way, and now seems to be moving upwards again. WAY upwards.
Why is that?
I don't believe it to be "phony reporting". I could believe that, say, 25% of all new cases weren't properly substantiated, but not most of them.
Yes, deaths have dropped significantly, and are now approaching baseline. I attribute this to the medical community's increasing knowledge of how to treat the disease, once people have it.
But covid's ability to infect is craftier than our ability to prevent such infections.
Or are we -- as Americans -- too rebellious and independent to "conform" to the degree that such conformity of behavior could begin forcing down the infection curve...?
Here, locally in SW Connecticut, we are doing pretty well.
As best I can gather in maintaining my "infection spreadsheet", there's been only 1 reported new infection in town in the past week (compared to a couple of months back when the number was around 30 per day). Hoping to see this trend continue...
