[amscanne]

% of visits to primary care provider is a _terrible_ metric. People have been actively advised to stay away from the Doctor’s office and hospitals for routine reasons (and reschedule for later). Obviously the % visiting because they think they have Covid is going up, even if they don’t have it!

[jrfinkel]

One of the study authors addressed this on Twitter. It’s certainly not hard proof, but 8 million extra cases would be a whole lot of hypochondriacs. Thread is short and worth a read. https://mobile.twitter.com/inschool4life/status/124762000834...