As someone who took Statistics in college with a textbook entitled "How to Lie With Statistics", these numbers could mean almost anything.
What determines a new case? Someone who has been tested and tests "positive for the virus? Are they asymptomatic or are they sick with symptoms? Are these people who have been hospitalized?
Are the deaths of people with Covid-19 when they die or deaths from Covid-19 itself as the primary cause?
None of these numbers mean anything unless the terms are defined.
As pdjt explained today all seriously ill with heart disease or roaring diabetes are counted as covid death if test positive
That makes death numbers fake.
George Floyd is counted as covid death?*
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INFECTION RISK
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Toggle columns to see the ranking in order to magnitude. https://infectionrank.org/ lists the US, under USA, and with the % MORTALITY of Population being 0.069%, mainly due to NE states. Meanwhile an estimated 1,200 children died in the 2012-2013 flu season [https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/faq.htm] while as of Oct 23 2020 the CDC says that there have been only 101 COVID-assigned deaths among children under 18 [https://covid.cdc.gov/covid-data-tracker/#demographics] out of almost 230,000 COVID-19 deaths nationwide. And with 92% of all Covid-19 deaths being among those 55 and older [https://lawliberty.org/covids-age-discrimination], with almost all of such having 2 or more Comorbidities [https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#Comorbidities] [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7327471] In addition, less than 10 percent of domestic COVID-19 *cases* have been among children under 18 (reported 9–11) [https://www.news-medical.net/news/20200910/Over-half-a-million-reported-child-COVID-19-cases-in-the-United-States.aspx] while the vast majority of all persons with severe COVID tend to have other risk factors.[https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/69/wr/mm6915e3.htm?s_cid=mm6915e3_w] Furthermore up to 90% of persons testing positive via PCR tests have such a low viral load that they judged as not likely to be contagious, [https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.html] Finally, the long-term costs in physical and mental health and finances due to this all-ages drastic restrictions when are tremendous.[https://therevolutionaryact.com/studies-the-shutdown-is-not-lives-vs-dollars-its-lives-vs-lives] |
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