Posted on 06/27/2020 10:10:00 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
That percentage, which is higher than other current estimates, nevertheless sharply contrasts with the alarming estimate of 3.4% announced March 3 by the director general of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesusin, which fueled the global lockdowns.
In fact, Dr. Anthony Fauci, the top White House infectious disease expert, co-authored an article published March 26 in the New England Journal of Medicine predicting the case fatality rate for the coronavirus would turn out to be like that of a "severe seasonal influenza."
In an exceptionally bad flu season, the rate is about one-tenth of 1 percent, the authors wrote.
The rate may have turned out to be considerably lower among people under 70, according to a paper published this month by John Ioannidis, a professor of epidemiology and population health at Stanford University.
He found the infection fatality rates in that population ranged from zero to 0.23%, with a median of 0.04%.
His finding was based on a study of 23 "seroprevalence studies," which measure infection rates using the presence of antibodies in blood samples, Just the News reported.
The studies, Ioannidis wrote, "typically show a much lower fatality than initially speculated in the earlier days of the pandemic."
"It should be appreciated," he writes in the paper, "that [the fatality rate] is not a fixed physical constant and it can vary substantially across locations, depending on the population structure, the case-mix of infected and deceased individuals and other, local factors."
The implication for decision-makers, he said, is that they can tailor measures "to specific high-risk individuals and settings" rather than implement a "blind lockdown of the entire society."
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I have actual numbers. You?
BTTT!!
You have fake numbers from government propaganda, government propagandist.
By the way, remove me from your annoying ping lists.
I'm using the Johns Hopkins University numbers.
Cite your source and the numbers it reports.
By the way, remove me from your annoying ping lists.
No can do, for two reasons. I don't have an annoying ping list, although if I had a list for annoying people, you would be on it!
You are not on the Emerging Pandemics ping list. Shall I add you so I can remove you later ... MUCH later?
You don’t do the 3-D printer pings?
There are a LOT more people who had it than your propaganda sources say.
I have nearly a dozen ping lists, that happens to be one of them.
Why you would mention that I have something annoying on an emerging pandemic thread that has almost absolutely nothing to do with pandemics rather than waiting for a 3-D printer ping? Is that perhaps an indication of a disordered mind?
As to your “data”, it’s bad enough when someone counts a positive test result that has no symptoms, and in all probability never will have any symptoms as a “case”.
You’ve gone the extra mile, you’re counting people who are not sick, and haven’t even ever been tested and probably will never, ever, ever be tested as “cases”.
Why stop there? Why not count all people on earth as the denominator? Perhaps you can add all the Klingons, Fairies, Greys, Nymphs, Reptoids, Sylphs, Vulcans, Wookies, and Ferengi as well?
Get me off your ping list.
YOU ARE NOT ON THE EMERGING PANDEMICS PING LIST!
I have removed you, with great pleasure, from the 3-D printer ping list.
Hi nully. are you and your family hanging in?
I don’t want to be on any of your annoying lists.
Pretty good, we’ve got a little cabin fever, but nothing that registers on a thermometer.
Added L-Serine to mom’s supplements, it’s said to break up amyloid plaques, chiropractor commented that she seems more alert and with better short term memory than the last visit 8 months ago. Will see what her gerontologist says on the next visit.
We had a 3,500 acre fire a few miles away. That was exciting...
I don’t want you on any of my lists.
I think we’ve reached a meeting of the minds here.
Don’t choke on your mask.
Thank you, I won’t.
Enjoy your bile.
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