Empty beds and hyperbolic reports

As a year past since the beginning of reports and frantic media outlets telling people around the globe as well as the USA that hospitals were so full that people, that they were not able to get care when needed. We were told over and over to "stay at home" to save people because hospital ICU's were so full according to reports. Now we are finding from studies that many of these claims were drastically exaggerated.

‘People were asked during a Franklin Templeton/Gallup study what “percentage of people who have been infected by the coronavirus needed to be hospitalized.” Thirty-five percent of those asked said that over half of infected people would require hospitalization from the disease. Meanwhile, only 18% correctly stated that the risk of hospitalization was somewhere between 1%-5%.’

“Democrats were much more likely to overestimate the harms of COVID-19, according to the Franklin Templeton/Gallup study, with 41% believing over half of coronavirus patients would require hospitalizations, compared to 28% of Republicans.

‘Republicans were also more likely to identify the correct risk of hospitalization from the virus, with 26% answering between 1%-5% of patients would require hospitalizations, compared to only 10% of Democrats who believed the same.
“These errors in factual knowledge appear to have important real-world implications,” the study’s authors noted. “Those who overestimate risks to young people or hold an exaggerated sense of risk upon infection are more likely to favor closing schools, restaurants, and other businesses.”

Sources:https://fee.org/resources/fee-daily/

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/americans-overestimate-hospitalization-covid-study

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Dylan C