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COVID: Need death data

| December 30, 2020 1:00 AM

So Gov. Little and the state health care districts continue to quote sterile numbers as a tool of COVID-19 management. Well, this is still a bit like saying one has properly managed what one is wearing, but not noting the fact that one isn’t wearing anything below one’s waist!

The missing garb with COVID-19 data is age demographic categories for those who’ve been hospitalized and died, and comparative percentages to the gross numbers being reported. CDC releases national data on this, e.g., https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#AgeAndSex. Why not state and local?

JAMES STRONG

Hayden