“So let’s look at the three biggest lies that are still being used to spread fear of COVID-19, ...
1. COVID carries a very high, 3.4 percent, death rate [compared to a flu death rate of 0.10 percent]. This has now been debunked by none other than the United Nations World Health Organization, ... The WHO came out with updated mortality rates this week showing that only 0.13 percent of those infected will die. ... This 0.13 percent death rate is almost exactly the death rate for the common flu.”
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There have been approximately 8,000,000 cases in America, total. A vast number of those are now fine.
Approximately 200,000 dead.
That is pretty close to the original estimate. Lower, but in the ballpark.
Just saying.
Yeah, except by the CDC’s own admission, 94% of COVID “deaths” were not due to COVID alone, and the average age of COVID deaths were people well beyond life expectancy. They can claim as many “deaths” as they want, but it is meaningless.
The 200,000 number is as much of a lie as everything else about COVID.
Except the overwhelming number of those who have been infected are asymptiomayic and have not been tested, so the real death rate is 0.13 just like the UN is now saying. A lot of us have been saying the same thing since March.
no. in most of those so called “200,000” cases covid19 was either not present, due to false or poor testing, or guessed as the cause based no testing, or just a contributing factor among several causing death of that person counted as a covid19 death.
the actual number of dead from covid19 *alone* or as the “major” factor is probably in the 10K to 40K region.
btw sweden is flat since august for covid cases and has the lowest death rate in europe now. herd immunity achieved.
It’s 210,000 now, but the CDC says that fewer than 10,000 died of COVID, the rest died with COVID and an average of more than 2 risk factors such as over 80, obese, diabetic, COPD, asthma or alzheimers, and 50% of the dead had a risk factor of being over 80, so 200,000 is not in any ballpark.
Just saying.
“Approximately 200,000 dead.”
Don’t be a pinhead!
Only 10% of that caused BY Covid not in association with it.
But a fuller story that opposes the long-term all-ages paranoia includes stats that show,
Adults 65 and older account for 16% of the US population but 80% of COVID-19 deaths in the US. [https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-covid-19/press-release/8-in-10-people-who-have-died-of-covid-19-were-age-65-or-older-but-the-share-varies-by-state/]
For reported deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19 (94%), on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death. [https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Comorbidities]
According to the CDC "best estimates" in COVID-19 Planning Scenario, updated Sept. 10 [https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html], the Infection Fatality Rate (IFR) is 0.02 percent for 20-to-49-year-olds and 0.5 percent for 50-to-69-year-olds. The estimated IFR for people in their 70s is 11 times the rate for 50-to-69-year-olds, 270 times the rate for 20-to-49-year-olds, and 1,800 times the rate for people younger than 20. In the latter two groups, the estimated IFR is lower than the overall IFR for the seasonal flu. [https://reason.com/2020/09/29/the-latest-cdc-estimates-of-covid-19s-infection-fatality-rate-vary-dramatically-with-age/]
About 40% of U.S. Coronavirus Deaths Are Linked to Nursing Homes [https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-nursing-homes.html Updated September 16, 2020] with 66% up in MA and 70% in CT [https://apps.bostonglobe.com/metro/investigations/spotlight/2020/09/last-words/part2-forgotten-elderly/index.html?p1=AMPArticle_Recirculation]
While an estimated 1,200 children died in the 2012-2013 flu season [https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/faq.htm] only 94 children (under 18) out of over 210,000 deaths have died due to COVID-19 (reported 10–02) [https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographics] and less than 10 percent of domestic COVID-19 cases are among children under 18 (reported 9–11, [https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200910/Over-half-a-million-reported-child-COVID-19-cases-in-the-United-States.aspx] while the vast majority of children with severe COVID tend to have other risk factors. [https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2020/07/coronavirus-infection-spread-in-children-cvd/]
42% of Americans are obese or overweight, and along with hypertension - two conditions the Covid constraint foster - these are to the two most lethal comorbidities. [https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/obr.13128; https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/16/health/coronavirus-obesity-higher-risk.html]
Testing data compiled by officials in Massachusetts, New York and Nevada showed that to 90 percent of people testing positive carried barely any virus using the PCR test, which is the most widely used diagnostic test for the coronavirus. And which which means they are not likely to be infectious and thus need not be quarantined (the greater the viral load, the more likely an infected person is to be contagious).[https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.html]
Pediatrician says 80% of kids likely have coronavirus, but they're so asymptomatic you'd never know - https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus-children-pediatrician-80-percent-asymptomatic/
A new, preliminary study from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle says the novel coronavirus is most likely transferred through “super-spreader” events, and that 80% of those who test positive for the virus never infect anyone else. - https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/fred-hutchinson-cancer-research-center-study-80-percent-coronavirus-superspreader/281-eb53a16a-632d-4d16-ae31-8cfdce84e570
85% of COVID-19 cases in July were people who said they often or always wear masks. [https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/pdfs/mm6936a5-H.pdf]
Eighty percent of communicable diseases are transferred by touch, so practicing hand hygiene would understandably be important to help fight disease. [https://www.trinityhealth.org/the-keys-to-fighting-covid-19]
Operation Warp Speed — the government’s agreement to subsidize vaccine companies’ clinical trials and manufacturing costs — appears to have been working with remarkable efficiency...Moncef Slaoui, Operation Warp Speed’s chief scientific adviser and a former pharmaceutical executive who has overseen the development of 14 vaccines, has said repeatedly that he expects some of the candidates that he picked to have 75 to 90 percent efficacy and at least two to win approval by early January. [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/12/health/coronavirus-pandemic-vaccine-optimism.html?referringSource=articleShare]