So is he saying we will have a 2% death rate? If true, by the time Covid burns through the population that means ~6.5mm dead Americans. I would say that’s very unlikely.
I think he means 2% of those currently testing positive.
There’s some unknown amount of people who get it but don’t get tested.
Our fatality rate (confirmed vs deaths) is 3.71% now. Yesterday was the lowest daily fatality rate increase(12.37%) since I started tracking on 3/22. Our confirmed daily increase is about 8%. Our %’s are plummeting
Italy’s fatality rate is 12.77%. Their daily fatality rate increase is 3% which is basically the same as their confirmed daily increases. The %’s have been that way for quite a while.
Not opinion. Just data
‘If true, by the time Covid burns through the population that means ~6.5mm dead Americans.’
yeah, that’s what he’s saying, if every US resident got infected; that’s not likely, some would have a natural immunity, it would miss some others for some reason...but I think his numbers are off, 2% seems pretty high...
Where did he say that?
f true, by the time Covid burns through the population that means ~6.5mm dead Americans.
Laughable attempt to invoke hysteria anyone?
Which are you then?
Fauci or Birx?
When I gave half my liver to my brother I had a 2% chance of death and 15% chance of complications. That was an acceptable risk to me.
2% of our nation WILL NOT die because of hydroxychlorolquine. The French Dr. Didier Raoult has been achieving 91% cure using this drug in combination with azithromycin.
This nation needs to come out of isolation least we collapse economically. The left wants this collapse. They think they will then rule the ashes. That is why they are hyper critical of hydroxychlorolquine. It is all about power and politics.
If the lock down is eased some people will catch the disease. Those that are severe will be treated with the above mentioned drugs. Actually it is necessary for 60% of our population to become infected and recover. This will give us herd immunity. The virus will still be around but no longer a pandemic.
We are many months from a vaccine available to the public. That is if we can develop one. We have been trying to do this for HIV since the 80s. Today we do not have a vaccine for HIV.
He may have meant to note that the 2% number is from those tested and known to have it. That he mentions we don’t know how many have really had it would mean the number is far less. We can’t really know.
It's currently closer to 4% than 2%
If true, by the time Covid burns through the population that means ~6.5mm dead Americans. I would say that’s very unlikely.
That's assuming everyone gets it which is unlikely. But if 50 million get it, which is the approximate number of people who get the flu, then the death rate would still be between 1.5 and 2 million. We won't know until we can test widely and we still can't do that.
>>So is he saying we will have a 2% death rate?<<
Who knows? It’s practically a fact-free article. He says something and no one bothers to ask a clarifying question. Par for the course.
He might well have meant that 98% of people recover without even needing to see a doctor. In fact, that’s probably pretty close to true, but we don’t know because journalism has died in this country.
I imagine that’s with the reported cases and there’s still a lot of reason to believe that much larger numbers are mild enough to not be reported...until we get good data on those “stealth” cases, we have no idea of the morbidity/lethality for a population...
“is going to be about 98 percent of all the people who get it.”
Read closely....he said “98 percent of ALL who get it”.
He said 98% of those who get it will recover...not the entire population...
2% of those INFECTED. How many will be infected?