COVID-19 Mortality May Be Significantly Lower Than Originally Reported (VIDEO)

nbc news twitter ^ | march 6th, 2020 | Brett Giroir

[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%"

[Svartalfiar]

And Italy has a fatality rate near 5%. That’s why the global tally is a match better and more accurate sample. As the overall global numbers increase, the fudging of data done by some governments tends to become less and less of a factor. Plus the severity of the disease can vary for numerous reasons from one country to another.

Italy's current stats on Johns Hopkins show totals of 366 deaths, and 622 recoveries. That's a current fatality rate of 37%, not 5%.

[Nifster]

The very same people who told me I was going to get Ebola or SARS or MERS

[TECTopcat]

The reason the Live Thread FR people are not posting this is there is it doesn’t get the attention of saying the world is ending

The New England Journal of Medicine also says the fatality rate is much lower than reported. Basically because thousands of cases are not being reported because the virus is so mild for most. “ more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza pandemic [which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%] or a pandemic influenza”

It reports that :
“Furthermore, the 1.4% figure cited in the new Chinese report, published Feb. 28 in the New England Journal of Medicine, is probably higher than the “real” death rate, Fauci added.
That’s because many corona virus cases are so mild they’re not even being reported, Fauci explained in an editorial he co-wrote in the same issue of the NEJM. Co-authors include Dr. Robert Redfield, who directs the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and Dr. Clifford Lane, deputy director of the NIAID.

“If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%,” Dr. Fauci and his colleagues explained

“This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of COVID-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza pandemic [which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%] or a pandemic influenza [similar to those in 1957 and 1968],” the experts wrote.

[trebb]

Won’t stop the angst-hungry idjits from staying in panic mode...

Funny how they will laugh at Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” because they know it’s hyped up BS, but seem to be starving for bad news to go insane over with the little bug running around....even as they also know that it’s the latest and greatest “Great Dem Hope Virus” and that the Left is leveraging it at full speed.