Sorry, won’t work unless they can pad the death numbers more. But I think NY is running out of random dead people they can blame on the virus. They still want to make it sound bad enough to get a federal bailout though.
So all this bullsh## was political!
They must have had no option but to cover this. 60% exposure has traditionally been considered herd immunity. However in the new, very scary, oh so dangerous covid world, I expect that goalpost to be moved.
This is not surprising given what we have learned in the past few weeks. NYC and other crowded areas reliant on public transportation will likely have the largest numbers of infections for any human to human transmission. Simple logic.
What is surprising is that the real statistics of this virus related to its mortality rate are not front and center in the national conversation about “where do we go from here.”
The models we acted upon at the outset of this were wrong. Severely wrong. They were correct in assuming an unacceptable mortality rate among the elderly and vulnerable, but they took the numbers for that group and transposed them on all of society when the truth is that young adults and those in good health had very little risk of dying from this disease. Yet, we shut everything down in a one-size fits all model based largely on NYC.
Go figure. I pray President Trump is beginning to get a grasp on what I wrote above and what many are starting to say and write. Open the country back up immediately! We will have outbreaks and unfortunately more deaths, but NOTHING even approaching what they claimed we would.
Is it possible this is from a previous flu?
The people getting sampled for antibodies are from that fraction who can be found out at the store.
There are plenty more old and vulnerable who don’t come out at all.
The sample is not fully representative of the population.
Amazing! Same percentage all over the world. With a .1 death rate
It was just another flu weaponized by propaganda media to bring Trump down.
Another traitorous scheme, another dismal failure.
Bullshit.
A little science goes a long way.
You are confusing the Case Fatality Rate with the Infection Fatality Rate.
The CFR is based on Diagnosed Cases
The CRF For Covid 19 is 8% in New York state
22,600 dead, 297224 confirmed cases
The CFR for Flu is usually around 0.2%
2018-19 flu
35,500,000 infected, 34,000 dead
0.095%
The IFR is infections/ total infected
So Covid is about 40 times as deadly based on the CFR.
The new numbers involve the IFR
21% of New Yorkers, 4 million may have been infected.
20861 x 100%/ 4 million =IFR of 0.5%
The IFR of the flu is about 0.02%
Based on that Covid 19 is 25 times as deadly as the flu.
But keep your head firmly up that ass.
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html
It has been a World Wide Hysteria propagated on Humankind by the Global Elites
Political Cabal cloaked in a Virus
This should be taken with a grain of salt. The testing may be generating false positives, and antibodies may indicate not a full infection but a minimal exposure that did not cause an infection.
Well, I’m pretty sure that I would be considered to be among the FeaRpers by the more rabid Flubros, but I don’t think that the information coming in from the serology studies is a surprise to anyone, FeaRpers included.
One thing we should expect going forward is that the serology will show the rate at which this virus is spread to the rest of the population, which is inevitable.
The more reasonable FeaRpers have been pointing out for a long time that the only number that matters is the total number of “excess” deaths being seen. You don’t need to worry that some CCP Virus cases are being over-reported, or misattributed just look at the total number of deaths, and see if it’s higher or lower than previous years.
Right now, in the US, the number is lower, which is great. But in NYC it’s currently double the past average. In New Jersey, it’s 20% greater, and the same can be seen all over the world. It’s not a hoax, it’s not the flu, and it absolutely is deadly.
That is not an argument for any particular policy formulation, it’s just data, which should be taken into account when discussing the policies we are allowing our politicians to inflict on us.
You can see for yourself on the CDC’s site, here:
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/COVID19/index.htm
Queers riding subways.
This is surprising?
NYC can all drop dead for all I care. I look forward to seeing the entire state going bankrupt.
Cuomo’s Daily Cartoon Show has killed any empathy I might have otherwise had for that dying state.
Covid-NY Ping
Fearless having bad day
The case for mandatory masks, right here.
That rapid transit system is the $hits. You reap what you sow, not that the lesson will be learned.
Not enough.
May God wipe that city from the face of this earth.