Curve for new cases is now like France and Spain. Much higher volume.
Higher cases. Still same (few) deaths. So the ratio of deaths to cases has declined even further.
The first wave was scarier. Not that the second wave isn't a bad thing. But definitely appears less of a threat than the first wave in which people who were tested and formally diagnosed had a 10-15% chance of death in the UK.
If this continues, the second wave is a lot closer to the flu, mortalitywise.
I don't think it's that treatments are that much better. Otherwise Latin Americans wouldn't be dying in large numbers.
It looks more like an evolution in the virus thing to me. The virus strains that thrive are those which don't kill the host (and themselves in the process) but use them as a transmission springboard. Seems like that's a more efficient predatory behaviour.
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