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To: exDemMom

The death rate is NOT 6.66%..........(1 in 15)........where did you get that number?

Actual death rate may be less than .7% because we have no idea how many have had the virus with little or no effect. New antibody tests will help us know that figure, but it will take tens of thousands of them and that will be a while.

Also, Covid-19 death numbers are being fudged on the high side by those who have a political reason for wanting higher numbers and actual deaths from the virus are probably a lot less than what we are told, and a lot more from other morbidity factors like obesity, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, etc.


50 posted on 04/16/2020 6:01:47 AM PDT by Arlis
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To: Arlis

We will NEVER know an actual death rate because the testing was so effed up out of the gate. Antibody testing 350 million people is a logistical impossibility and will never happen (though I suspect that eventually we’ll have a big enough sample to prove that the early modeling on this was crap).

Though that will trigger a whole nother debate on just WHEN those people got infected.

We’ve got a scientific debate here that has come to loggerheads with no end on the horizon. And we just can’t keep life in suspended animation while they try to figure it out.


53 posted on 04/16/2020 6:11:06 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer)
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