Posted on 02/25/2020 10:49:58 AM PST by DouglasKC
I love Rush but he has stated several time today that the death rate of Corona virus is LESS than the death rate of influenza. This is just flat out wrong.
From the CDC website
Mortality rate of influenza: Deaths per 100,000 population: 2.
So the CDC says that for every 100,000 people that get the flu, 2 of them will die from it. What is the mortality rate percentage?:
2 (the number of deaths) divided by 100,000 = .00002, or .002%.
The estimated mortality rate of corona (which he is basing on the number out of China = 2-3%.
Death rate of flu= .002%
Death rate of Corona = 2%
The death rate of corona is a THOUSAND times greater than the flu...and that's assuming that we used Chinese numbers. Using IRAN number the death rate is 15%...
Rush MIGHT be referring to the fact that the flu can kill up to 80,000 americans in a year. But that's only because there's a LOT more people infected with various flu viruses. When as many people are infected by the corona virus then there would be an accurate comparison.
he needs to zip it..did the same thing yesterday
I don’t know if he’s ignorant or lazy but he’s dead wrong.
Well it may be greater (coronavirus) than the flu but more people have died from the flu so far this year than the coronavirus.
Kungflu.net has it at 3.4% lethality
Complete garbage. You are being played again. Stop being so gullible.
*yawn*
still trying desperately to spread the fake news media induced panic over this nothing burger eh?
Message me when the death toll in the US from this exceed bathtubs!
ROFL
I heard him say the same thing the other day. I love Rush, but he’s not too good in the math department.
Only because there's a billion times more people infected with influenza. If just as many people are infected with corona than there would be a thousand times more death AT A MINIMUM.
Last year, more than 80,000 people died of the flu and its complications in the United States, the highest death toll for the disease in at least four decades.
https://weather.com/health/cold-flu/news/2019-02-15-flu-season-vaccine-illnesses-deaths
I’ve read 4.8% lethality.
China is lying. Don’t believe anything from them. They’re facing collapse.
What numbers do you disagree with?
I stopped listening to Rush a while ago, but my reading states the mortality rate is close to 5%. Rush, is on one of his—I know I’m right no matter the stats. Weight, smoking, etc., etc.
However, it may be localized in a sense that it seems only Han Chinese are susceptible to it. 99% of the deaths have been Han Chinese, which implies a level of immunity for everybody else.
I think he is medicated.
Normal Rush thinks clearer than this.
Yes.
Two different numbers.
Manzanas y naranjas.
True that but it’s not happened yet and the control is already in the works world wide.
Call him and say “Rush is wrong about...”
Bo will put you to the head of the line.
At least that’s what happened when I called to tell Rush he was wrong about the Flat Tax.
If the same number of people were infected with the corona virus that death rate would be AT LEAST 1000 TIMES more.
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