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If statewide lockdowns reduce deaths from COVID-19, then why is New York’s per capita death rate more than 50 times higher than Texas’s? You can see a list of U.S. states ranked in order by the number of COVID-19 deaths per 1 million population. Go to this link, and scroll down to the list of states. At the top of the list, click where it says “Deaths /1M pop.” Then click on it a second time: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/In addition, here is a map that shows which states have a statewide lockdown, and which do not. Source: https://www.indy100.com/article/coronavirus-lockdown-us-cases-map-stay-home-order-9443151Looking at these two things, we...

Trump ruined our economy and all for naught!" "Trump and his capitalism put millions out of work for nothing!" If you haven't already heard this from the "mainstream media" (AKA "fake news"), you soon will. Fake news media, doing the bidding of their leftist and Democrat masters, have been trying to destroy Donald Trump with hoaxes since he announced his candidacy, or maybe ever since Trump first questioned Barack Obama's claim of being born in the U.S. The fake news first claimed that President Trump overreacted to COVID-19, then Trump was belittling COVID-19 and ignoring the experts, then Trump didn't...

First 12 weeks of each year - 2018 (55,680 pneumonia deaths) - 2019 (46,875 pneumonia deaths) - 2020 (42,506 pneumonia deaths). Must click through this link to get to the data tables. Scroll almost to the bottom of the linked page until you reach "Pneumonia and Influenza (P&I) Mortality Surveillance." Below the chart, click on "View Chart Data."

The real death rate of COVID-19 in the U.S. may be 140 times smaller than what is being reported It’s possible that the number of people in the U.S. who are infected with COVID-19 is much bigger than the number that is being currently reported, but many of those people haven’t gotten substantially sick, and so haven’t gotten tested.The death rate is calculated by dividing the number of people who die by the number who get infected.But while we do have accurate information about the numerator, we really have no idea what the denominator is. It’s possible that the real denominator...

The rate of the number of individuals who died from the flu to the number of individuals who were estimated to have had the flu is .1% (22,552 / 36 million). This is an estimate and the amount used above by the Director General of the WHO.However, the rate of individuals who died from the flu to the number of individuals who were confirmed to have had the flu is around 10% (22,000/ 222,552). This is based on actual data similar to the rate for the coronavirus above.  5. Actual results for the coronavirus are lower than the flu. Based on...