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Actual number of U.S. coronavirus cases may be more than double the official tally
Los Angeles Times ^ | July 26,2021 | By Amina Khan

Posted on 07/26/2021 2:57:42 PM PDT by NoLibZone

By early March 2021, roughly 65 million people in the U.S. — or one out of every five people — had been infected by the coronavirus that causes COVID-19, a new analysis shows.

The findings, described in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggest that roughly 60% of coronavirus infections had gone uncounted at that point — adding to a growing body of evidence that the pandemic’s true toll is far greater than official tallies show.

“It’s good to see people start estimating how far we potentially could be off,” said Jennifer Nuzzo, an epidemiologist at the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security, who was not involved in the study.

Scientists have long been aware that the official coronavirus numbers don’t capture the full story. One study that looked at life insurance applicants suggested the number of cases might have been twice as high as the official tally; another model suggested that deaths worldwide were roughly double the reported count.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: covid; covidoutlivesuse; fakelyfakenews; fakenews; losangelesslimes; reallyfakenews
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To: NoLibZone

This is great news. First, it means 80% of the population did NOT contract Covid over the past year in spite of all of the media generated hysteria. It also means that over half of those who “had Covid”experienced either no or very minor symptoms. Excellent! This new data means the Case Fatality Rate is much lower than we’ve been told!


21 posted on 07/26/2021 3:18:59 PM PDT by deener
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To: Travis McGee

Media is all lies..nonstop lies


22 posted on 07/26/2021 3:20:08 PM PDT by ground_fog ( My God this was from today!S)
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To: NoLibZone
or it was the FLU!!!
23 posted on 07/26/2021 3:20:20 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: dblshot

Which would mean Herd immunity has been reached. That’s what p***** me off. 85% of the population does NOT have to be vaccinated.


24 posted on 07/26/2021 3:20:24 PM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: NoLibZone

This is great news. First, it means 80% of the population did NOT contract Covid over the past year in spite of all of the media generated hysteria. It also means that over half of those who “had Covid”experienced either no or very minor symptoms. Excellent! This new data means the Case Fatality Rate is much lower than we’ve been told!


25 posted on 07/26/2021 3:20:32 PM PDT by deener
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To: NoLibZone

Awesome news for the herders.


26 posted on 07/26/2021 3:26:20 PM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: NoLibZone

NO it is actually way lower!


27 posted on 07/26/2021 3:26:41 PM PDT by fedupjohn (Waiting for Trump's new Caribbean Resort "Club Gitmo" to open for business! )
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To: NonValueAdded

Plus this would drop the death percentages way down.


28 posted on 07/26/2021 3:28:39 PM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: NoLibZone

or a lot less because they throw everything into the pot


29 posted on 07/26/2021 3:41:23 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: NoLibZone

“adding to a growing body of evidence that the pandemic’s true toll is far greater than official tallies show. “

or

vastly over-counted for political reasons....


30 posted on 07/26/2021 3:43:13 PM PDT by ASOC (This space for rent)
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To: NoLibZone

Yes, or triple. Probably similar to the % of people who catch a cold each year.

Now that they are admitting the denominator was way low, let’s fix the fact that the numerator is super inflated, and come up with honest covid mortality rate.

It’s already 99.8% survival rate - triple the denominator and it’s 99.93%

Then fix the numerator, which is probably 10 times inflated...

Survival 99.993%


31 posted on 07/26/2021 3:45:14 PM PDT by enumerated
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To: Travis McGee
(Is it really a disease if you had it and didn’t even know it?)

Perhaps that's a good question for all the people that died of heart disease and didn't know they had it.

32 posted on 07/26/2021 3:47:35 PM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: NoLibZone

My johnson may be more than double the official length.


33 posted on 07/26/2021 3:49:30 PM PDT by bakeneko
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To: NoLibZone

Blah Blah Blah


34 posted on 07/26/2021 3:52:11 PM PDT by Fledermaus (The Republican Party is DEAD! It took 160 years but The Whigs Struck Back!)
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To: NoLibZone

Next week it will be triple. No one in government or in big business (Pharma) has an credibility.


35 posted on 07/26/2021 3:55:42 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA (“When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” ― Thomas Jefferson)
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To: NoLibZone

More Fear Porn


36 posted on 07/26/2021 3:56:51 PM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: NoLibZone

zero of 1500 SEM investigations showed influenza.

this lie has been brought to
you for CHINA, PELOSI, SOROS, GATES, and WHO?


37 posted on 07/26/2021 4:06:07 PM PDT by Diogenesis (Tuitio Fidei et Obsequium Pauperum)
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To: NoLibZone

Six people in our house had COVID in December. All 4 adults tested positive using the nasal swab. The two children reported symptoms that were the same as the adults. This means that there were 50% more cases in just one house than were reported. So yeah they can’t possibly know how many actual cases there were because they can’t count unreported cases. We were all adhering to the protocols of masking at the time. It didn’t matter that we were using masks because one adult picked it up and it was transmitted through the entire house in matter of minutes.

We all survived with no lasting effects. Even the short term effects were no worse than a common cold or flu.


38 posted on 07/26/2021 4:09:47 PM PDT by webheart (Free of mask, free of mask! Great God almighty.....)
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To: webheart

And speaking of the true toll, it will be hard to go back and reclassify all the deaths as COVID that were not because they already did that every time it was possible. The true toll then would be roughly half the fatality rate that they were advertising at the time. If it wasn’t for the dishonest media we would have thousands of experts embarrassed about being so wrong.


39 posted on 07/26/2021 4:13:27 PM PDT by webheart (Free of mask, free of mask! Great God almighty.....)
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To: PubliusMM

That also means the hospitalization and death rate is 1/2 (as a percentage).


40 posted on 07/26/2021 4:20:54 PM PDT by 1FreeAmerican
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