This is a simple question you still have not or don't want to answer.
Yes, cases are UP. That's not the question.
Cases are up far more than anywhere else on the planet. Connect those dots. It's due to a massive lack of leadership at the top (where the buck used to stop).
Again, the virus is the same on the entire planet. Yet in the US, with 4 percent of the worlds population, over 20% have died. You now know the population of Canada and China, yes two vastly different countries and you now know the number of dead. So either Trump at the top is a failure or the majority of the dead Americans are stupid and died proportionally at a massively higher number than elsewhere. Why is that Craig? Are Americans and/or those leading the country just practicing malpractice? Because the numbers which are factual, speak for themselves.
1. Of the positive cases at the peak of the pandemic back in the spring, what percentage of them required hospitalization?
It doesn't really matter. We are far worse off now than then when we knew less about the virus. 1000 Americans a day on average dead.
2. Of the positive cases now, what percentage of them required hospitalization?
It doesn't really matter. We are far worse off now than then when we knew less about the virus. 1000 Americans a day on average dead. Over 100,000 infections per day last week alone.
Do you think its possible for you to actully answer this?
Lack of leadership is a big one. Because again, the virus, the humans are no different in Canada or China. The leadership IS. And the intelligence of the people who listen to the leaders. Again, Trump could have had his followers follow CDC guidance, he didn't. He could have listened to experts, he didn't. He could have actually stopped travel from China which he really didn't do by a long shot but it's the one thing he's so proud of saying he did early. You do realize that isn't' what happened.
We lead the world in sickness and death from Covid-19, that's a simple fact. Either as a country we are filled with idiots (I believe that's somewhat true) or our leaders are idiots (I believe that's mostly true) but you simply cannot deny the number of our population and the number of sick and dead let alone those who haven't fully recovered and may be scarred with disease for the rest of their life. Make America Great again? With that accomplishment; rubbish.
You will
never, never admit that either a lot of Americans, or their leaders are to blame for this. You will never admit that the people in say Canada and their leaders didn't make the same mistakes. It's pointless trying to provide facts that clearly illustrate the truth. WHY should we continue? Ask all the silly questions you want. You simply cannot answer why the US is in such an awful state in this pandemic nor why we lead in infections and death worldwide.