Posted on 05/19/2020 10:36:08 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
A new study suggests the number of Americans who will die after contracting the novel coronavirus is likely to more than triple by the end of the year, even if current social-distancing habits continue for months on end.
The study, conducted by the Comparative Health Outcomes, Policy and Economics Institute at the University of Washington's School of Pharmacy, found that 1.3 percent of those who show symptoms of the COVID-19 disease caused by the virus die, an infection fatality rate that is 13 times higher than a bad influenza season.
"COVID-19 infection is deadlier than flu -- we can put that debate to rest," said Anirban Basu, a health economist at the University of Washington who authored the study.
If the infection fatality rate is accurate, and if the coronavirus continues spreading at current rates even before most states open their economies and relax social-distancing restrictions, the COVID-19 disease could claim between 350,000 and 1.2 million American lives by the end of this year, Basu found.
"This is a staggering number, which can only be brought down with sound public health measures," Basu said in a press release announcing the study, which appears in the journal Health Affairs.
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In other words no matter what we do covid-19 will simply run its' course.
It seems that many of these estimates have been wrong.
But, even if true? How many of them will be in Eeeeew Yuck?
This ‘Study’ person needs to be fired.
My own computer model indicates that we will all be dead by next Tuesday.
“We’re all doomed! Women and minorities first!”
Let’s write down this information, plus the name of the idiots who did the “study.” That way, when it doesn’t come true, we can have them banned from the internet for spreading false information.
“This ‘Study’ person needs to be fired.”
There are no repercussions in the modern scientific community for being wrong. Logic and reason has been replaced with politics and payoffs.
3 x Zero is still zero.
“Anirban Basu, a health economist at the University of Washington”
Is there not ONE SINGLE American doctor or health professional around any more?
Why are all these quoted and go-to spokespeople always some odd hyphenated ethnicity?
Even though the rates of infection and death are dropping throughout the country. Are they hoping for a second wave?
But nothing beats studies.
It’s the same thing all over again. What is scary is never what is happening. What is scary is what they say “could” happen. I tire of their unrealized and constantly downgraded models.
But the job is to gain control by increasing fear. I’m not part of that equation and mainly just want to make sure I have enough ammo.
What about the rest of the 2.1 million Americans who are to die?
In other words, “Nobody Gets Out Alive.”
Next year the seasonal flu will kill another 30K to 80K Americans and again next year, and again next year, repeat until extinction.
Soooo damned tired of hypochondriacs.
“Partly because of the huge costs involved, a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity. ”
Dwight Eisenhower, Farewell Address
You left out “orphan children “..{:<)
Especially when they do the national scale equivalent of yelling FIRE! in a theater.
No, no. If we hand all power over to the Democrats and go full socialist, Covid will be miraculously simply a nuisance, not a crisis.
In other words no matter what we do covid-19 will simply run its’ course
Exactly!
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