Coronavirus numbers and percentages

Getting tired of it all

TDS since before elections, Russia, Impeachment, Coronavirus bs, what’s next fake news gonna be todestroy economy

So far flu has killed many more people worldwide and in the USA. Something like 34K last year in the US and 16K so far this season.
BUT

With flu vaccines are available and the lethality is estimated to be about twenty times less than COVID-19. Flu tends to hit the very young and the very old. COVID-19 has been lethal to healthy young adults as well as older men who smoke.

The virus has now been reported in more than 60 countries worldwide and seems to be spreading rapidly. Modern medicine will, no doubt, keep the death toll lower than the 40 million of the 1918 pandemic, but this is a dangerous situation.

Minimizing the danger and taking no serious action is a sure path toward worse results than necessary.

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Minimizing the danger and taking no serious action is a sure path toward worse results than necessary.

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There has not been a single death in America due to the coronavirus and there is not one patient in critical condition here because of it either. Don't let the media do it to you man.

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Infected 83,000 or .00001% of world population and virtually 0.0% in USA Killed 2800 or .00000035% of world population and none in USA. Zero, nada deaths in USA

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So

1. Relating this to the “world’s population” is a completely BS statistic.
2. Here’s the math you need to do:

(2800*100)/83000=3.37%

So, for every 100 or so infected people, just under 3.5 die.

Compare this to influenza...for every 100,000 infected people, around 2 die.

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There has not been a single death in America due to the coronavirus and there is not one patient in critical condition here because of it either.

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That’s because we haven’t been testing for it and really have no idea how many people have it.

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That’s because we haven’t been testing for it and really have no idea how many people have it.

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Wouldn’t that kind of throw doubt on your death rate numbers?

Just take comfort in the fact that if it is a huge scam, that someone will investigate it and you’ll get the results/findings by 2030.

I’m just sold on the fact that we have to keep beating the bureau at the voting booth.

The higher mortality rate probably has more to do with the fact that people who were infected were treating this like the flu when the virus was still unknown. The vast majority of those deaths occurred in Wuhan where the outbreak originated from.

Now that we know what we're dealing with, look for the mortality rate to decline in the coming days and weeks.

Taking “action” against what? A virus that is treatable and isn’t a threat to the US. You are correct about the media and the democrats using this as a tool against people who can’t think for themselves.

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Wouldn’t that kind of throw doubt on your death rate numbers?

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Those numbers are largely from other places where the outbreak is more widespread at this point. Our response to this has been absolutely ridiculous. First, we allowed flights from China to continue for two months after this was first identified, and airlines only voluntarily suspended flying due to a drop in demand. Second, the test kits we came up with had a bad reagent and so we don’t have the ability to engage in widespread testing, Third, because of idiocy like “choosing wisely”, physicians are already under pressure not to order rapid flu testing. So if you have a patient who comes in with a fever and respiratory symptoms without significant hemodynamic abnormalities you’re probably going to end up discharging them without really knowing what they have. When they bounce back septic is when they will end up in the ICU +/- a CT scan...