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Up to 90 per cent of people diagnosed with coronavirus may not be carrying enough of it to infect anyone else, study finds as experts say tests are too sensitive
Daily Mail ^
| August 30, 2020
| Marlene Lenthang
Posted on 08/30/2020 12:49:58 PM PDT by rickmichaels
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To: semimojo
“It does show that the 99.97% is wrong, though, since we’ve already lost nearly twice that number.”
Latest CDC data show that less than 10,000 died ONLY from the virus.
To: semimojo
Oh well. You are light years ahead of Gov Gruesome, who famously predicted that about 25 million Californians would get it by last May.
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posted on
08/31/2020 7:28:43 AM PDT
by
DennisR
(Look around. God gives countless clues that He does, indeed, exist.)
To: reformedliberal
My post wasn’t meant to be sarcasm.
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posted on
08/31/2020 10:33:18 AM PDT
by
DallasBiff
(Lautenberg The Forefather of "The Nanny State!")
To: DallasBiff
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posted on
08/31/2020 11:14:11 AM PDT
by
reformedliberal
(Make yourself less available.)
To: rickmichaels
Wow. Months behind what was obvious when they came out.
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posted on
08/31/2020 8:45:41 PM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: ifinnegan
I don’t think tests can be too sensitive.
They can certainly be too sensitive for a particular use - such as detecting exposure to fragments when folks think it is detecting the actually infected.
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posted on
08/31/2020 8:48:38 PM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: shelterguy
60 to 80 thousand people die every year in this country from the flu.
9k-80k...maybe...to a middling level of confidence.
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posted on
08/31/2020 8:50:50 PM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: Mom MD
I’m sure that if not the majority of those who died of covid would have died this year or something else.
A fair number would have, but the demographics of those dying is rather different from those who die of the flu.
That said, we’re still not to the point of truly reliable statistics on how many have died. That typically takes 6-12 months even for decent estimates of the flu that aren’t +/- 50%.
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posted on
08/31/2020 8:54:07 PM PDT
by
lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
To: Basket_of_Deplorables
“It does show that the 99.97% is wrong, though, since we’ve already lost nearly twice that number.”
Latest CDC data show that less than 10,000 died ONLY from the virus.
Which is an even more nonsensical way of looking at it than attributing everyone who died who had any trace of COVID in their system as dying of COVID. It’s like pointing out that virtually no one dies from the flu, and ignoring those that died from dehydration or pneumonia caused by the flu.
In NYC alone, in April alone, roughly 19,000 people died compared to the normal 4500. That alone says your numbers don’t say what you think they do.
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08/31/2020 9:04:37 PM PDT
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lepton
("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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