"A little bloodletting and some boar’s vomit, and he’ll be fine!"
"A little bloodletting and some boar’s vomit, and he’ll be fine!"
covid-19 cases are “reported” or “confirmed”. not estimated figures as per CDC’s annual figures. anyone extrapolating mortality rate from the covid-19 figures is exaggerating/hyping the situation, and adding to the panic. why? for political or commercial reasons perhaps:
also note change in methodology after Donald Trump became President:
CDC: What was the 2017-2018 flu season like?
The 2017-2018 influenza season was a high severity season with high levels of outpatient clinic and emergency department visits for influenza-like illness (ILI), high influenza-related hospitalization rates, and elevated and geographically widespread influenza activity for an extended period. In 2017, CDC began using new methodology to classify seasonal severity and applied the methodology to the 2003-2004 through 2016-2017 seasons. The 2017-18 season was the first season to be classified as a high severity across all age groups...
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/season/flu-season-2017-2018.htm
estimated:
CDC: Estimated Influenza Illnesses, Medical visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths in the United States — 2017–2018 influenza season
The overall burden of influenza for the 2017-2018 season was an estimated 45 million influenza illnesses, 21 million influenza-associated medical visits, 810,000 influenza-related hospitalizations, and 61,000 influenza-associated deaths
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2017-2018.htm
estimated:
CDC: Estimated Influenza Illnesses, Medical visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths in the United States — 2018–2019 influenza season
Introduction
For the past several years, CDC has estimated the numbers of influenza illnesses, medical visits, hospitalizations, and deaths...
CDC estimates that the burden of illness during the 2018–2019 season included an estimated 35.5 million people getting sick with influenza, 16.5 million people going to a health care provider for their illness, 490,600 hospitalizations, and 34,200 deaths from influenza...
Limitations
These estimates are subject to several limitations...
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html
and, if you estimate covid-19:
6 Mar: Gateway Pundit: HHS Assistant Secretary: Estimates of Coronavirus Mortality Rate “Somewhere between .1% and 1%” — Or Similar to a Flu Virus (VIDEO)
by Jim Hoft
On Thursday HHS Assistant Secretary Admiral Brett Giroir told reporters,
“The best estimates now of the overall mortality rate for COVID-19 is somewhere between 0.1% and 1%. That’s lower than you heard probably in many reports … it’s not likely in the range of 2 to 3%.”
This puts coronavirus on par with a typical flu epidemic to something slightly higher — NOT something like a SARS or MERS virus with a much higher mortality rate.
Via NBC News:
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2020/03/hhs-assistant-secretary-estimates-of-coronavirus-mortality-rate-somewhere-between-1-and-1-or-similar-to-a-flu-virus-video/