Posted on 03/06/2020 9:29:50 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
The mortality rate from the new coronavirus is 1 percent or lower, a U.S. official said.
Speaking to reporters on Wednesday, Adm. Brett Giroir, assistant secretary for health at the Department of Health and Human Services, said the typical mortality rate for the seasonal flu is around 0.15 percent.
“The best estimates now of the overall mortality rate for COVID-19 is somewhere between 0.1 percent and 1 percent. That’s lower than you’ve heard probably in many reports,” Giroir said in Washington.
The estimate is lower than other experts have said because of the assumption that “many people don’t get sick and don’t get tested,” Giroir said, adding: “Probably for every case, there are at least two or three cases that are not in that denominator.”
The mortality rate is likely higher than for the flu, Giroir emphasized. “It’s not likely in the range of 2 to 3 percent,” he added, citing modeling data.
Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, told lawmakers last month that the overall mortality rate, counting just the people who “come to the attention” of the medical community, was 2.4 percent.
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I do believe many people have been exposed to the virus, without necessarily ever showing any symptoms.
With all of the traffic going through our airports, I just don’t see how that wouldn’t be the case.
perhaps people interpreted that they had a cold. It progressed and went away. Or perhaps a mild flue like symptoms. So never tested.
Maybe we had it all along and gave it to the Chinese.
And some may have died of it before, but it was assumed it was normal influenza.
It’s cold & flu season.
Lots of people are sick.
Some of them have coronavirus.
The rest is hype.
As determined by a sample size of 12?
No one has a clue how many died in China so any estimate on a fatality rate is pure guess work. I do know the death rate is damn near 100% at the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Washington.
Old folks' homes are filled with... wait for it... old people, not to mention the fact that they are closed-system Petri dishes.
We have a winner. A lot of Wuhan/US travel happens. Wonder where Walmart gets its products from.
Which would have been the case with most any flu strain.
You’re going to be so disappointed again.
That is wrong. A case fatality rate (CFR), by definition, counts only cases that are diagnosed. In this fashion, the total mortality rate from the 1917-1919 was probably lower than 2%, because of people with mild illness who were never diagnosed or even never showed symptoms.
The CFR is almost always going to be lower than the overall fatality rate. The only way to determine an absolute fatality rate would be to test every member of a population for seroconversion, an indicator of immunity to the disease. That is not feasible.
The case fatality rate from Covid-19 is shaping up to be in the 3% range. This is not a true CFR, since almost half of the cases are still active, and a final CFR cannot be calculated until all cases have resolved or died. It is highly worrisome.
Yep. 18,000 have already died from the regular flu.
right, because that rate of flu mortality at one location, within 3 days has been seen for decades and decades. Oofa...the stupid runs thick.
“As determined by a sample size of 12?”
Determined by the fact that thousands of people haven’t died in the weeks since this has been in the news. That’s just simple logic.
Like what the hell is testing them going to do? The individual “confirmed” cases arent because those few people happened to be the only ones with it.
I still say it’s the Y2k virus. Just a cold weaponized to accomplish globalist, DNC, and Chinese political purposes.
Sure looks like between 0.1 and 1% to a bureaucrat.
All governments lie, people.
The sooner you learn that, the safer you'll be!
Lots of experts and self-proclaimed experts spouting out information on the fly. Anyone can find whatever figure they want to support their hypothesis.
Don’t give up. Keep hoping for more and more deaths! So fun! I know possibilities of low severity bother you, with your dark hearted desire for many deaths.
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