Posted on 03/28/2020 1:01:09 PM PDT by Hojczyk
The total number of Wuhan virus cases in the US surpassed the total in any other country yesterday. It is no surprise the media and their Democratic allies are using this data to cudgel the White House and mislead Americans. But anyone with fifth grade math (which apparently excludes most of the media) knows how irrelevant and misleading such a comparison is.
As we have pointed out, the only way to compare the status of the pandemic across countries is to analyze the number of deaths and cases on a per capita basis. The number of deaths per capita is most important, but per capita case rates provide a leading indicator that is also important to watch.
Despite what the media would like everyone to believe, this past week continues to bring good news for Americans. The number of per capita deaths reported in the United States remains amongst the lowest in the world. As of today, the US has recorded 5 deaths per million from the Wuhan virus, one-fifth of the total in Western European countries as a whole. Only Germany and Norway are recording lower deaths per capita, and that is only by a small fraction.
case numbers is that they largely reflect the amount of testing that has been done. Brian continues:
With the significant ramp in US testing (526,000 tests were run this past week), it is also reasonable to start comparing relative per capita case rates across countries. Again, the US is doing well relative to Western Europe. Except for the UK, the US has fewer reported cases per capita than every Western European country
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Link please.
I’m terrible at links. Maybe I can get someone else to do it.
The twitter account name would be good. Thanks.
Nope. Even now they are switching from “12% mortality” to “look at the increase positive tests”. Not realizing that the higher the number infections the lower the mortality rate.
I’ve already asked. It’s probably being shared all over twitter. Try James Woods, lol.
Linky please.
Once this is over, they can all go back to their other obsession: will Meghan really divorce Prince Harry?
Blue state governors, mayors, and their media have created within their state fear, anxiety, anger and emotional overload. The media closes off all outside information if its good and feeds the death and destruction 24/7. Trumps news briefings were on fox and no other, no ABC,CBS,NBC. The rat leaders are scrambling to get ahead of the corrupt ineptness and incompetence they ALL have in common. Cuomo screamed we need 40,000 ventilators! where are they? 4000 in jersey and he said we don’t need them right now. What are they telling us? Are we fn IDIOTS? THEY FAILED THERE PEOPLE MISERABLY but the media will praise them as saviors
Instead of countries to the US a better comparison would be the EU to the United States.
Highlight and copy the web address and paste it to a reply. Don’t worry if it actually makes a link. Just get the web address copied correctly. We can take if from there. Thanks
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Yup. The Free Republic breathless, hysterical, panic inducing, mouth breathers documenting every known case of infection and death statistics, will be deeply saddened.
Freepers should self identify as to whether they are receiving a check from the government, or work in a quasi government protected eneterprise, or if they work in the private sector.
I bet there are few private sector employees proclaiming the end of the world and begging for lockdowns.
The US has the largest number of fake news reporters in the world.
Rate Over the past week (confirmed vs dead):
1.36%
1.27%
1.42%
1.51%
1.51%
1.63%
1.77%
Yeah for a conservative board I don’t get all their cowardice and running around willy-nilly and showing such terror.
It’s embarrassing.
Conservatives need to get tough again
...be hysterical and apocalyptic at the same time.
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