Posted on 05/25/2020 4:15:28 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Flu Season That’s Sickened 26 Million May Be at Its Peak
Feb. 21, 2020, at 9:00 a.m.
The percentage of deaths attributed to flu and pneumonia currently is 6.8%, which is below the epidemic threshold of 7.3% , according to the CDC.
This disease is 3 to 4 times more deadly than the seasonal flu.
By most accounts it's significantly more contagious.
Unlike the flu we don't have effective treatment drugs.
Unlike the flu we don't have a vaccine.
Given this I don't see how what we did was an overreaction.
“Biggest hoax ever.”
I really do think we have to consider the possibility they, the Dems aligned with the Chicoms, created a panic and crashed the economy for political reasons, specifically to get rid of Trump. I think they brought the virus to Europe and the US deliberately. The sickest part is that they needed to boost the death toll numbers to make it all seem legit. And did they ever. The Cuomo nursing home policy - no one is that stupid. And New York wasn’t the only state that did this.
I’m not saying we should go around saying that we know this to be true, since it is so outrageous. But I am saying that people in positions of authority should do some investigating, because sometimes people do commit crimes. Sometimes they commit big ones.
For once women and children not hit hardest, but the virus probably kills two Democrats for every one Republican. Unfortunately most of those Republicans will be mailing in Democrat votes in the next election.
L8r
They had to MURDER elderly people to inflate the death number...will ANYONE pay the penalty for this?
Yup, and there are going to be major lawsuits concerning the damage done to small businesses while allowing major businesses to operate, too. The governments involved are liable to make them whole again or make just restitution for forcing them out of business.
It assumes an overall symptomatic case fatality rate (CFR) of 0.4 percent, roughly four times the estimated CFR for the seasonal flu. The CDC estimates that the CFR for COVID-19 falls to 0.05 percent among people younger than 50 and rises to 1.3 percent among people 65 and older. For people in the middle (ages 50–64), the estimated CFR is 0.2 percent.
Did I just read that right? Under 50 fatality rate is ONE HALF the overall CFR of flu? Now I get that's worse than the flu-for-under-50. But holy SHITE!
Optimistic?
I don’t know about the rest of y’all but I think models are a bunch of crap. Starting with the ‘global warming’ models, all the models, including likely this one are wrong.
The world’s reaction to the CCPvirus would have been very different if the models had been right.
Models are correct only after whatever they were modeling has past and adjustments have been made to the models based on actual results, a little of which we’re seeing here. This whole episode has been a farce.
“They had to MURDER elderly people to inflate the death number...will ANYONE pay the penalty for this?”
I think our focus should be on the health officials of these northeastern blue states. I would want investigators to get warrants to review all their communications from January through April.
And in case you don’t have any underlying pathology and are otherwise healthy, we’ll put a 20-year-old psychopath in your room at the nursing home to give you Covid-19 while he beats you. If you die of a brain hemorrhage from the beating, we’ll count it as dying with Covid-19. Welcome to the brave new world.
“I don’t know about the rest of y’all but I think models are a bunch of crap. Starting with the ‘global warming’ models, all the models, including likely this one are wrong.”
I agree. I don’t think most people realize that many of these computer models don’t deserve to be called science. They may incorproate a lot of well-established scientific knowledge, but in order for a computer model to be truly scientific, it has to be able to reproduce at least one previous example of the kind of thing it is deisgned to predict. Climate models can’t even reproduce the observed temperature variability in the US over the past 100 years... they are not ready for prime time, and certainly should be relied upon to make decisions that would affect everyone on the planet!
A new study estimates the death rate in the US from the novel coronavirus is around 1.3 percent.
That makes the virus at least 10 times deadlier than the seasonal flu, which had a death rate of 0.1 percent in 2018-19.
This is just one - the .1% value was the commonly reported number across many news sites.
Some of us, anyway. That excludes the Fearpers here.
Yep.
Under 0.3 would make it less than three times as deadly.
This is not the equivalent of the Spanish flu.
yet liberal state like NY/NJ/Mass is pushing up the rates.
Here are some mortality rates calculated just this afternoon:
NY 7.8% Average Median Age 39
NJ 7.1% AMA 40
Ma 6.9% AMA 39.4
PA 7.2% AMA 40.8
Fl 4.3% AMA 42.2
Tx 2.7%
La 7.8% (red state outlier)
Ga 4.2%
Should not?
0.3% -- not 3%. Which means that Covid-19 death rate is ONE-THIRD the flu death rate.
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