Posted on 04/18/2020 7:05:19 PM PDT by Libloather
The Covid-19 shutdowns have been based on the premise that the disease would kill more than two million Americans absent drastic actions to slow its spread. That model assumed case fatality rates - the share of infected people who die from the disease - of 1% to 3%. The World Health Organization’s estimated case-fatality rate was 3.4%.
Some experts - including in these pages - have questioned this assumption. They argue that known cases are likely only a small portion of the true number of infections, and thus high case-fatality rates could be off by orders of magnitude. We don’t know what portion of infections have gone undetected for a lack of tests, restrictive qualifications to get tested, and a potentially large incidence of mild illness or asymptomatic infection.
New data support the skeptics’ view - a preliminary study by a Stanford team, released Friday. They conducted a seroprevalence study of Santa Clara County, Calif., on April 3 and 4. They studied a representative sample of 3,300 residents to test for the presence of antibodies in their blood that would show if they had previously been infected with the novel coronavirus.
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Who would ever have guessed that the Communist Revolution would come about as an hysterical response to the common cold?
did anyone ever say that it was very deadly? From the very beginning it was stated that 80% of those affected would have the symptoms of a mild cold if at all and about 15% would have harsh symptoms and the remaining require hospitalization and unfortunately death.
Unfortunately, some friends of mine have passed. 3 were very old, one had cancer :(
There are many that die of the flu every year and we don’t close the schools and the nation’s economy.
If ANYTHING comes out of the WHO, ignore it as Chicom propaganda.
And BTW, there are two strains of this manufactured virus, a mild one much like a seasonal flu and a virulent one that replicates fast and devastatingly.
The coronavirus is deadly to the elderly and those with weakened bodies already, mostly due to voluntary choice of a bad lifestyle.
The coronavirus is not so deadly to most Americans.
NO SHIT!!!
I would say that “Revolution” is over.
Conned by scum Democrats in the CDC.
There are many that die of the flu every year and we don’t close the schools and the nation’s economy.
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The study projected that something like 3% of the U.S. population could have already been infected. That is an extrapolation but not an unreasonable one.
And we are talking about right now when we have had nearly 40,000 deaths. Note that the U.S. population is about 330,000,000 and 3% of that is about 10,000,000. That is the guess being made about how many have been infected.
If so the death rate is about 40,000/10,000,000 = .004 or .4%. That could be but it is still very high. I hope the estimates of .001 turn out to be right.
I guess WSJ doesn’t want to be labeled “fake”...anD is jumping ahead of most other media...this gonna be good
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Our kids and grandchildren have had a lot of $$$ stolen from them by the panicked pols.
I think this virus is fairly serious. I think it’s a bit worse than the seasonal flu. At least for this first go-around.
I think the country should go back to work. All of it.
high blood pressure ( 1 out of 3 Americans) could have a hard time with this COVID-due to blood vessel constriction/damage.
Also diabetes is a big one
At this point I have no idea WTF this thing really is. I do know that the country is in rubble and the Constitution is being pissed upon. We very well may have been played before this “crisis” and played as the “crisis” winds down. Would I put it past the Chicoms to manipulate media that throws out that Corona was never a big deal just to cover their butt? Maybe it never was what the media has hyped? I don’t know who to believe and I did trust the media and most of government to begin with.
Fauci said it was 10x deadlier than the flu.
Too many people think they are guaranteed a risk-free existence. They aren't.
I have never from day one trusted the hysteria the media created over this virus I don’t believe a damn word that comes out of their mouths NOTHING EVER!!!
Fauci is a deep state ASSHAT that is full of BS!!!
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