Studies: Fatality rates from COVID are dropping sharply everywhere

For the second straight day, a bright light shines through the gloom of a darkening COVID outlook this fall. Yesterday the good news was that fears of schools becoming mass incubators of coronavirus appear to be overblown. Positivity rates across a sample of tens of thousands of students and staff in NYC are minuscule. Maybe we can have safe in-class instruction this fall.

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Today s news is even better. As cases explode in Europe and climb towards a new peak in the U.S., a tantalizing mystery has emerged: Why aren t we seeing the same crushing death tolls in hot spots that we saw in the spring? Deaths *are* rising in Europe from their summer lows (upwards of 150 daily on bad days in the UK and France recently) but they re nowhere near the gory levels of April even though both countries are setting records in the number of daily cases. The trends in cases and deaths here in the U.S. also diverged awhile ago:

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