Posted on 07/03/2020 7:47:19 AM PDT by teeman8r
A new NPR report suggests the global response to COVID-19 may have been reached on a flawed premise.
Mounting evidence suggests the coronavirus is more common and less deadly than it first appeared.
The evidence comes from tests that detect antibodies to the coronavirus in a person's blood rather than the virus itself.
The tests are finding large numbers of people in the US who were infected but never became seriously ill. And when these mild infections are included in coronavirus statistics, the virus appears less dangerous.
"The current best estimates for the infection fatality risk are between 0.5% and 1%," says Caitlin Rivers, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
That's in contrast with death rates of 5% or more based on calculations that included only people who got sick enough to be diagnosed with tests that detect the presence of virus in a person's body.
Many people will recall the fatality risk debate that took place prior to and in the early stages of the lockdowns. There was much discussion over how deadly the virus was and what the collective response to the virus should be.
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If the leftist narrative turns to “Trump overreacted” he’s got video of Fauci at briefings saying “he followed my advice.”
The Left would have to throw Fauci under the bus at that point, which they may. Dr. Doom may find in the end that he spent five decades cultivating the wrong friends.
the experts were not wrong. They knew they were lying.
The democrats funding that virus lab, the punishment for treason would do.
Another NPR screw-up. What did you expect, honest, fact-based reporting? Not at NPR. They hate America, period.
“About 1.1 million deaths,” he responded.
As of June 10, Ferguson is off by about a factor of ten. Why we should continue to listen to schools that have already proven to be so disastrously wrong is anyone’s guess. The “chicken little” story comes to mind.
When the left loses NPR, it’s like Raul Castro buying a McDonalds franchise, the commie conspiracy is done. The Covid hoax is exposed. It was used as a tool for the left to destroy the economy and oust Trump.
We shut down the economy and all I got was this lousy t-shirt from walmart because they were the only corporatist entity allowed to stay open.
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