790,000 (deaths) divided by 49.3 million (infections) = 1.6%
The USA Covid Case Fatality Rate for ESTIMATED infections is:
790,000 (deaths) divided by 140 million (infections) = 0.56%
The three most current USA TOTAL case estimates are 140 million. Those estimates come from the CDC, the Cleveland Clinic, and a medical lab in Boston I was not familiar with.
One note - in the USA, the influenza case fatality rate is calculated for SYMPTOMATIC cases only.
A severe flu season has a CFA around 0.2%.
The Covid case totals never explain if they include ALL positive cases, or just symptomatic cases.
Thus, comparing Covid CFAs to influenza CFAs may not be meaningful.
NOT because Covid is so really different from influenza, but rather because the DEFINITIONS used are (unnecessarily) different.
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I’m quite certain that the CoVid numbers are counting positive cases and not only symptomatic ones, unlike the flu.
With CoVid, lots of people were required to be tested once there was a positive symptomatic person in their sphere. As an example, if a restaurant had one case, all the other employees were given tests too, so even asymptomatic people who were positive were found and were quarantined for 2 weeks. This happened to someone I know, and he was never sick with anything, nor did anyone in his close circle get sick from him.
With CoVid, we suddenly started testing in a new way. There can’t be any apples to apples comparisons, only apples to oranges.
These death numbers are pretty worthless as many of these deaths are not from covid..accidents, gun shots, old age, etc. Actual Covid only deaths in US number under 7,000. Italy reassessed their death toll from 130k to 3k I believe. We can’t believe anything.
With cases “calculated” as well as “assumed,” as well as “estimated,” as you cite the prose, how is this rigorous in any scientific way?
Date collection alone is not done via guesswork, or is it?
The math I saw just under 6 months ago...
Put on your thinking caps.
The Truth about COVID-19
As of June 16, 2021:
World population 7.8 billion
Total Covid cases 182 million
total Covid deaths 3.94 million
% of people who got Covid 182m / 7.8b = 0.023 or 2.3%
% of people who died from Covid 3.94m / 182 million = .021 OR 2.1%
Chances of getting Covid and dying is .023 x .021 = .0004 or 0.04%
That is NOT a pandemic!
Covid is 99.+5% survivable — this data proves it:
Straight from the U.S. Congress.
269 deaths out of 59,000 confirmed cases comes to .4559 percent.