Poll Shows Most Americans Wildly Overestimate COVID Hospitalization Risks: Is the Media to Blame?

PJ Media ^ | 09/29/2021 | Kevin Downey Jr.

[SeekAndFind]

A new Gallup poll shows that when it comes to COVID risks, a lot of Americans have no idea what’s going on.

The poll, involving 3,158 adult Americans, tells us that 41% of Democrats believe the unvaccinated have a 50% chance of being hospitalized because of COVID. Independents believe the correct number is 26%, while Republicans came in at 22%. The correct answer: Fewer than 1% of unvaccinated people infected with COVID will have to go to the hospital.

(Credit: Gallup)

While Republicans were more likely to overestimate the risk of vaccinated COVID patients being admitted to a hospital, both groups are off by a mile.(Credit: Gallup)

The hospitalization rate for both vaccinated and unvaccinated COVID patients is under 1%. The hospitalization rate for vaccinated COVID patients is 0.01%, or 1 out of every 10,914 patients, while the hospitalization rate for unvaccinated COVID patients is 0.89%, or 1 out of 112 patients.

This poll is based on American COVID patients and doesn’t include recent data from Israel showing that 59% of COVID patients in the hospital were fully vaccinated.

FACT-O-RAMA! Statistics from the Johns Hopkins website show us that the United States has a COVID survivability rate of 98.4%, meaning 1.6% of Americans with COVID die. Turkey has the highest survivability rate at 99.1%.

It’s no surprise that so many people on both sides of the aisle don’t have the correct answers. Politicians, celebrities, and news outlets regurgitate different COVID “information” and opinions, depending on their political leanings.

Rep. Ritchie Torres, a Democrat from New York City, wants to keep unvaccinated people off airplanes.

[SeekAndFind]

RE: Statistics from the Johns Hopkins website show us that the United States has a COVID survivability rate of 98.4%, meaning 1.6% of Americans with COVID die.

This is NOT good news. There used to be a time when the survivability rate was 99.7%. That means MORE people are dying now than before.

[ClearCase_guy]

If the situation is worse now, then do we blame the “vaccine” for making it worse?

[Pollard]

Last summer, a poll showed the average person thought the death rate from covid was 40%. and yes, that’s the MSM’s fault.

[DannyTN]

These two statements are not reconcilable, unless a huge portion of people who die from Covid are never hospitalized.

• "The hospitalization rate for both vaccinated and unvaccinated COVID patients is under 1%."
• "1.6% of Americans with COVID die."

I believe the article's claim about the hosptialization rate is false.

[Seruzawa]

Absolutely. The media wildly exaggerates and also just makes stuff up to make the environment seem more dangerous than it is.

[RummyChick]

These numbers mean nothing.

If you are fat and diabetic your chances greatly increase

You dont even have to be diabetic

FAT seems to be a significant part of the problem

[ActresponsiblyinVA]

Not news reporters but propagandists.

[Little Ray]

Mission Accomplished!
/sarc

[CheshireTheCat]

Thank you posting.

I have posted about similar surveys in the past and had been wondering if the figures changed any.

[OVERTIME]

Thank you.
I saw that too.

You wrote this
These two statements are not reconcilable, unless a huge portion of people who die from Covid are never hospitalized.
“The hospitalization rate for both vaccinated and unvaccinated COVID patients is under 1%.”
“1.6% of Americans with COVID die.”
I believe the article’s claim about the hospitalization rate is false.”

Such a glaring and fundamental error.
The whole article should be treated as garbage.

PJMedia states that the author of of its article is a “Comedian” You would have thought that the ceditor would have given it a sniff test.

[butlerweave]

The Globalization Freaks think COVID not Global Warming is the ticket

[mac_truck]

These two statements are not reconcilable, unless a huge portion of people who die from Covid are never hospitalized.

Lots of nursing home deaths were associated with Covid, I'll bet that makes up a large portion of the missing data.

[Theophilus]

I think it's true that an ever increasing number of Americans are pathological hypochondriacs.

[MNJohnnie]

Hmm yet the US has injected 391,000,000 doses of vaccine

How come the death rate is up despite more then half the population be vaccinated with our government mandated “safe, effective vaccinations”?

[Ceebass]

RE: Statistics from the Johns Hopkins website,,,,,

The Johns Hopkins data is GIGO. The only way we’ll ever know how many were infected is to random sample the population for antibodies. The death rates are suspect also since they count died with covid and other dubious inclusions.

[Ceebass]

RE: Statistics from the Johns Hopkins website,,,,,

The Johns Hopkins data is GIGO. The only way we’ll ever know how many were infected is to random sample the population for antibodies. The death rates are suspect also since they count died with covid and other dubious inclusions.

[Geoffrey]

“I think it’s true that an ever increasing number of Americans are pathological hypochondriacs.”

Americans are subjected to huge amounts of propaganda.

[SharpRightTurn]

Besides the issue of underlying conditions (obese, diabetic, preexisting respiratory issues, etc.), there’s also the standard stock question which never seems to be addressed: FROM COVID or WITH COVID.