I’ve read hundreds of hundreds of articles on death rates on this and other epidemics. The death rates are nearly always significantly lower than estimated as the vast majority of mild and assymptomatic cases are not caught until they develop an antibody test and do random sampling (ie the denominator is incorrect) while we nearly always catch the bad cases. Again, the Diamond Princess has a SIGNIFICANTLY elderly population compared to the US - average age of 70 vs mid 30s for the US population as a whole and the death rate was just over 1% - and 700+ people is a significant population sample. Fear porn does nothing.
They want the fear , it gives them purpose in their day to day lives. Panicking women and children for no reason should be against the law .
Diamond Princess death rate for a population averaging 70 years old is encouraging. This article from CNBC today says nine people died, up from 8. Sounds trivial, but when we are extrapolating from 3700 people to 320 million people it is significant. I can’t find any confirmation of the 9th death, if anyone can find it please advise.
During yesterday’s presser Dr Birx clearly stated that based on the CDC data for the US the mortality rate is ~0.6-0.7% without even calculating in the asymptomatic cases. She stated that the asymptomatic cases are also the biggest group thus the true mortality rate is much lower than ~0.6-0.7%.
Let’s chat about NYC in 2 weeks.
I’ll be thrilled if widespread use of HQ+Zpac turns the tide.