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To: RaceBannon; RummyChick; LilFarmer; null and void; Vermont Lt; janetjanet998; All

For what it is (or is not) worth....

May 8, 2020
U.S. COVID-19 death rate is 1.3%, study finds
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2020-05-covid-death.html

“The 1.3% rate calculation is based on cumulative deaths and detected cases across the United States, but it does not account for undetected cases, where a person is infected but shows few or no symptoms...If those cases were added into the equation, the overall death rate might drop closer to 1%, Basu said.

“The new study’s findings are based on 40,835 confirmed COVID-19 cases and 1,620 confirmed deaths in 116 counties across 33 states through April 20. Death rates varied widely across locales, with some counties recording a death rate of just 0.5% while others went as high as 3.6%.

“The estimate of the U.S. COVID-19 death rate is “not outside the ballpark” of estimated rates available from other countries, but lower...”


128 posted on 05/08/2020 6:57:34 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: BenLurkin

Somehow all those deaths are within the acceptable range.

Even one death should not be acceptable.


206 posted on 05/09/2020 9:20:56 AM PDT by bgill (Idiots. CDC site doesn't recommend wearing a mask to protect from COVID-19)
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