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Mugarolla

Light 'em up!
I think you need to reread the article. It doesn’t support you.

Here's another article that ran the numbers without going into a long winded explanation of how the fatality rates can be misleading.

The "experts" don't like seeing 0.2% so they try and get with the narrative and convince you that it is not really 0.2% or that 0.2% really means 7%

This article ran the numbers and came up with 0.27%

Wow, similar to what the CDC is now saying. And this article listed the fatality rate of those under 70 at 0.05%

That is 0.05, not 0.5, or nowhere near your quoted 7%

And as more people are tested, and more people are found to have, or have had, COVID-19, the fatality rate is going to be similar to the flu.

If you're older or have pre-existing conditions, take precautions because your fatality rates are much higher.
 

DriveInDriveOut

Inordinately Right
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I quoted that article because it was a fairly reputable source that was quoting the new figures from the CDC about the mortality of covid-19.

The article did go off on a tangent listing opinions by them and other people. I'm not interested in those opinions.

I'm interested in what they quoted the new CDC mortality rate to be, since you are always quoting the CDC numbers. And here it is from the article.


The document includes five scenarios. The first four are varying estimates of the disease's severity, from low to high, while the fifth represents the "current best estimate."

The range of estimates put the fatality rate for those showing symptoms between 0.2%-1%, with a "best estimate" of 0.4%.

Again you need to read the article. Specifically the last paragraph.
 

fishtm2001

Well-Known Member
“In the spring, the federal pandemic response was akin to bringing a rubber chicken to a gunfight. The attempt to defend against the greatest threat to public health in a century was limp, grudging and delayed. Now it is barely existent.”

William Hanage
 

fishtm2001

Well-Known Member
Amid the pandemic, at least 66,081 more people in the United States have died than expected since January 1. More than 32,300 of the excess deaths have not been attributed to COVID-19. “When you put it in context with the weekly deaths over the last couple of years, you see quite a remarkable jump,” said Bob Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch at the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics.

5/4/20
 

DriveInDriveOut

Inordinately Right
Amid the pandemic, at least 66,081 more people in the United States have died than expected since January 1. More than 32,300 of the excess deaths have not been attributed to COVID-19. “When you put it in context with the weekly deaths over the last couple of years, you see quite a remarkable jump,” said Bob Anderson, chief of the mortality statistics branch at the CDC’s National Center for Health Statistics.

5/4/20
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zubenelgenubi

I'm a star
Again you need to read the article. Specifically the last paragraph.

You mean the one that says "Partly False"? Yeah, that just means that the rate is based on estimates, not confirmed. If the real number of total infections was known, and death counts weren't so rife with fraud, the mortality rate would likely be less than the flu.
 

PT Car Washer

Well-Known Member
“In the spring, the federal pandemic response was akin to bringing a rubber chicken to a gunfight. The attempt to defend against the greatest threat to public health in a century was limp, grudging and delayed. Now it is barely existent.”

William Hanage
And here it is nearly August with 150,000 dead Americans and where is trump? Hiding in his White House while those around him test positive and he promotes unproven and dangerous cures.
 

fishtm2001

Well-Known Member
And here it is nearly August with 150,000 dead Americans and where is trump? Hiding in his White House while those around him test positive and he promotes unproven and dangerous cures.
Today he's talking about possibly delaying the election. The "very stable genius" has the political instincts of a tree stump.
 
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