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Two utterly fascinating facts about COVID
American Thinker ^ | 4 Sep, 2021 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 09/04/2021 4:56:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber

These facts may completely reorient how you view both the virus itself and the government-leftist response to the virus.

I learned two facts today, one about COVID’s survival rate and the other about eye-opening medical information hidden within the bowels of the CDC. Both surprised me and they may surprise many of you as well. Admittedly, I had my suspicions about the survivability of COVID and have known for a long time (courtesy of my Brazilian hairstylist) that Ivermectin is a good treatment provided people receive it early enough.

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Dr. John Ioannidis, the Stanford University “Professor of Medicine (Stanford Prevention Research), of Epidemiology and Population Health and by courtesy, of Statistics and of Biomedical Data Science” was curious about actual infection fatality rates (IFRs) for COVID. Extrapolating from confirmed cases, he concluded that, around the world, more than half a billion people have probably been infected with COVID.

Using that metric, Dr. Ioannidis concluded that most locations around the world have an IFR that’s less than 0.20%. Additionally, protecting vulnerable populations and treating people with appropriate medicines may further reduce mortality rates.

However, as we’ve also learned, COVID does not attack all people equally. When Democrat governors, beginning with Cuomo, decimated their elderly by warehousing COVID-infected people in old-age homes, we saw that the elderly are the single largest vulnerable population. Dr. Ioannidis, therefore, decided to look at age-related survival rates and he came up with survival numbers that, if more widely known, would bring this mad panic to an end.

At PJMedia, there’s a neat little chart summarizing the bottom-line survivability numbers, along with a more detailed discussion of Dr. Ioannidis’s conclusions:


(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: communism; covid; covid19; covid19truth
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1 posted on 09/04/2021 4:56:55 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

And we need communism and tyranny for this?


2 posted on 09/04/2021 4:57:22 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

CoupFlu has NEVER been about public health.


3 posted on 09/04/2021 4:57:49 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: mewzilla

Wanna bet they’ve been goosibg the death stats up, not down...

After all, who’s gonna be skeered of a scamdemic that isn’t dropping folks like flies.


4 posted on 09/04/2021 4:58:51 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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To: MtnClimber

Peruse later.


5 posted on 09/04/2021 5:00:54 AM PDT by NetAddicted ( Just looking)
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To: MtnClimber

The media hype is inversely proportional to the actual risk.


6 posted on 09/04/2021 5:02:19 AM PDT by RushCrush ( )
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To: MtnClimber

So, what the chart tells us is that presently, the <1% contracting the disease are the unvaccinated or marginally at risk for the age group.


7 posted on 09/04/2021 5:04:01 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Like BLM, Joe Biden is a Domestic Enemy )
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Those numbers have been know for over a year now.


8 posted on 09/04/2021 5:09:17 AM PDT by Doofer
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To: bert

Where does the chart say ‘unvaccinated’? And why aren’t the vaccinated who still get the china flu counted?


9 posted on 09/04/2021 5:19:13 AM PDT by jeffc (I'm a Patriot, and the media are our enemy)
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To: MtnClimber

The 70+ group death rate was probably much higher because they were much more likely to be trapped in nursing homes or stuck on a ventilator.


10 posted on 09/04/2021 5:21:19 AM PDT by airborne (Thank you Rush for helping me find FreeRepublic! )
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To: MtnClimber

Must be a tough sale.
Or else they wouldn’t have sneak around and play endless word games?
And too..if they have force everybody to do what they want ..it must not be so good?


11 posted on 09/04/2021 5:25:55 AM PDT by Leep (Save America. Lock down Joe Biden!)
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To: airborne

And men like cuomo saw a way to reduce the NY spending on the elderly for the next fifteen years. Send the sick aged back tot he confinement of an infection raging closed up nursing home, then bury or incinerate them ‘for the relatives’ sake’.


12 posted on 09/04/2021 5:29:51 AM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensation perspective is a powerful tool for discernment)
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To: mewzilla

That’s right. Once we saw how grudging they were/ARE to research the origin of the bug, how totally incoherent and inconsistent they were/ARE in explaining the prevention plan … and ESPECIALLY, how routinely dishonest, erratic and evasive they are about an actual, definitive diagnosis ...it’s impossible to believe them.

Add to this, the “joined at the hip” concurrence of the pandemic with the last US Presidential election, and NOW it’s impossible to believe them about anything they say!


13 posted on 09/04/2021 5:33:29 AM PDT by SMARTY (Republics decline into democracies & democracies degenerate into despotisms. Aristotle)
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To: airborne

You got it. Once you go on a ventilator you don’t come back.


14 posted on 09/04/2021 5:33:52 AM PDT by HighSierra5 (The only way you know a commie is lying is when they open their pieholes.)
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To: MtnClimber

Let’s take the smallest number. Under 18 have a 99.9973% survival rate.

There are 73 million under 18 in America. That survival rate would mean 19,000 dead children.

How much are we willing to do as a society to prevent 19,000 dead American children?


15 posted on 09/04/2021 5:37:34 AM PDT by Renfrew
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To: Renfrew

Only if every single child in America was infected with wu-flu to the point of showing treatable symptoms.

That has not and likely will never occur.


16 posted on 09/04/2021 5:46:40 AM PDT by old curmudgeon
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To: Renfrew

What is the Vaccine adverse reaction death rate? That is being covered up. And the vaccine doesn’t even seem to have lasting effects. What if we spent this effort to control the southern border and stop the trafficking in opioids? How many lives would be saved by doing that?

And COVID can’t be too serious because we have not had public hangings of those who funded this gain of function reseaech.


17 posted on 09/04/2021 5:49:59 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Renfrew

You need some help with basic multiplication I think.

99.9973 % survival means .000027 fatality rate. That is about 459 children (which is still more than actually have died.

By comparison: “According to the CDC, in 2017, drowning claimed the lives of almost 1,000 U.S. children. From 2005-2014, there were an average of 3,536 fatal unintentional drownings (non-boating related) annually in the United States-about ten deaths per day.

Shall we outlaw letting kids go into the water?


18 posted on 09/04/2021 5:50:42 AM PDT by monkeypants (It's a Republic, if you can keep it.)
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To: SMARTY

And the way they allow millions of illegals and refugees into the country without requiring them to be vaccinated.

If it were a true, real dangerous pandemic, the border would be closed shut to everyone. The left and globalist are using it to control the world.


19 posted on 09/04/2021 6:02:36 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Fauci is a murderer)
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To: MtnClimber

There is another interesting fact I found from a research study in S. Korea that looked at the exercise habits for100K adults. The more an adult exercised, with 150 minutes a week combined cardio and strength training being the most effective, the less likely to have symptomatic COVID, we’re significantly less likely to be hospitalized and none of the exercisers died.

I am not sue if it was this study or another that showed exercisers were symptomatic for 2 days less than non-exercisers.

1. Waiting for someone mainstream to pick up this info (not holding my breath)

2. If it does get pick up will someone say that exercise isn’t useful to be healthy?


20 posted on 09/04/2021 6:04:15 AM PDT by PrincessB
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