https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/preliminary-in-season-estimates.htm
Posted on 03/08/2020 5:40:52 PM PDT by Mount Athos
"The best estimates now of the overall mortality rate for COVID-19 is somewhere between 0.1% and 1%," Adm. Brett Giroir, assistant secretary for health at HHS, says. "That's lower than you heard probably in many reports ... it's not likely in the range of 2 to 3%"
It’s just the flu.
The CDC and WHO have the data but are refusing to release it.
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I swear, the DS is behind this latest plot. The DS will never stop trying to sabotage POTUS. The CDC must be composed of liberal insurrectionists. POTUS needs to clean house. There is no excuse for the test kit fiasco. What th delay in kits is doing is to allow the virus to seed the community undetected and create even more chaos down the road.
can you help me find a cite for that, I am very tempted to write up a vanity on this subject.
i don’t know what’s going to happen with this virus, but i do know people are grossly misunderstanding and misapplying the WHO statistic
There are drastically more infections than confirmed cases, the amount of testing being done is shockingly small.
There are also dramatically more dead people than are being reported.
“If you think the WHO statistic means 3.4% of people who get it will die, then you completely misunderstand the statistic because it only counts confirmed cases.”
Unreported Coronavirus deaths like we’ve seen strong evidence of in places like China balance out the unconfirmed cases. So the numbers I posted are a pretty accurate sample of what’s happening in the real world.
So, the people who are just as well versed in this field who take an opposing viewpoint to the, We’re All Going To Die alarmist’s, their opinions are to be discounted? Given no weight whatsoever?
Seems to me that attitude follows the attitude of the Global Warming alarmists rather closely. They too have the opinion that the only opinions that matter are of those who share their perspective. No other viewpoints are to be acknowledged.
“Then, there’s the WHO’s leading biostatistician who estimates “
Um....I thought WHO was owned by the CCP to downplay everything?
That is stuff posted on this site REGULARLY.
Do you guys not keep track of this?
Yesterday you talked about death rate by country.
It’s easy to separate out the china numbers, you did it yourself.
Which means you just destroyed your own argument
OK, i accept that china has many unreported deaths.
But these death rate statistics exist by country.
Do you think a lot of people are dying in south korea unreported? Germany? I don’t
“There are also dramatically more dead people than are being reported.”
And here’s an example:
“Farnaz Fassihi
@farnazfassihi
Iran deputy health minister says 200 people have died of coronavirus in Gilan province alone. Yet official nationwide deaths stands at 194.”
We never did buy the crap sandwich they were trying to sell.
They don’t know the mortality.
It hasn’t been here long enough, and not enough confirmed infections.
Conjecture of .1% is just as dangerous as conjecture of 2-3%.
I’m going to be dangerous and conjecture it is much lower than .5% in modern countries (deaths/infections)
Some here at FR will be sooo disappointed
I’m still waiting to die from Ebola, or, SARS, or MERS
Here is data for when a large sample of people are actually tested ...
South Korea has tested 140,000 people for the coronavirus. That could explain why its death rate is just 0.6% — far lower than in China or the US.
https://www.businessinsider.com/south-korea-coronavirus-testing-death-rate-2020-3
Forget the Chinese statistics.
Try the So. Korean statistics. On March 6th, they have 6,284 confirmed cases with 42 deaths so far.
And that doesn't include unconfirmed cases.
And yes I know that also doesn't include people who are currently sick and may yet die.
The number should be very low, I would say around 1.0%
And there are probably more deaths AND cases than what's being reported in Iran and China.
There’s nothing to cite, it’s arithmetic.
Additionally, we need the demographic rates too. Everything I am seeing is that this is primarily a threat to the elderly and those with significant underlying issues.
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