COVID-19 only somewhat more deadly than the seasonal flu.
I think all of these studies (LA, Santa Clara) are great news showing the actual mortality rate is so low. I am not worried about getting it- I am healthy and have no co-morbidities- but I still think it’s kind of creepy. I have 2 friends who had it. They were both pretty sick but on par with having the flu. The scary part is neither has regained his sense of smell. I can’t imagine losing taste and/or smell! Someone reported that eating pizza was like biting into cardboard. Terrible!
All the info about Covid19: being asymptomatic, very contagious, stays in surfaces, you get it when peoole sneeze or cough on you are ALL characteristics of most illnesses, especially the COMMON COLD. The main difference is the violence of Covid.2
The health care people used the ignorance if the citizenry to spread fear.
Bro? :)
Sassshhhh. This cannot get out.
Los Angeles probably had a very high rate of infection in December 2019 as main Chinese visited relatives in Los Angeles’ very large Chinese community at that time. (We forget that all the major Chinese airlines have direct flights from China to Los Angeles.)
Well..duh. The greatest, most successful Republic known to mankind has been tossed onto the ash heap of history because of a socialist fear campaign. We, the cringing remnants of that once mighty country, have no one to blame but our cowardly selves.
So often, at this site and others, brave conservatives vowed to initiate CWII when the overreach of the communist, DC swamp breached the walls of the Constitution and enslaved the citizens. Well, the word went out to shackle ourselves to our bedposts, and we meekly obliged.
Meh
The fatality rate must be based on confirmed cases, anything else is BS. For the U.S its now 5.4%
It simply means that 5.4% of those with confirmed infections will die.
Its a highly infectious disease that came out of a Chinese military weapons lab. The issue should be getting medicines, tests, and other medical supplies out to the public ASOP, rather than denial.
Everyone will be exposed to it at some point. The Spanish flu didn’t end because people wore cloth masks. It ended because everyone got exposed and gained immunity to it.
Like ALL viruses, people gain immunity by being exposed, so it is important to recognize the illness and treat the symptoms quickly.
bkmk
The democrats want more dead so they can keep people locked in their homes and unemployed.
Much lower than people feared, or much lower than people hoped?
The New York State antibody study shows a 13% infection rate, details will be out later today but Cuomo said it at his press conference 20 minutes ago. NYS has 20mm people so that’s 2.6mm infections. NYS has reported 20,792 Covid19 deaths (I now the flubros are going to say most of these were shark attacks LOL)
20,792/2,600,000 is .8%, at least 8 times higher than seasonal flu. And there’s so much more! The seasonal flu death rate of .1% is not based on infections, it is based on SYMPTOMATIC CASES and 75% of flu infections don’t cause symptoms. The Infection fatality rate for the flu, as opposed to the Case fatality rate, is therefore .025%. Covid19 is 32 times as deadly.
https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/imm/covid-19-data-map-04202020-1.pdf
https://www.nhs.uk/news/medical-practice/three-quarters-of-people-with-flu-have-no-symptoms/
https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/how-many-people-already-have-covid-19/
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2020/04/21/revealing-chinese-virus-excess-death-graphs-coronavirus/
Must be the Flubros strain...