The CDC's New 'Best Estimate' Implies a
COVID-19 Infection Fatality Rate Below 0.3%
Reason.com,
by
Jacob Sullum
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
5/25/2020 5:20:11 PM
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the current "best estimate" for the fatality rate among Americans with COVID-19 symptoms is 0.4 percent. The CDC also estimates that 35 percent of people infected by the COVID-19 virus never develop symptoms. Those numbers imply that the virus kills less than 0.3 percent of people infected by it—far lower than the infection fatality rates (IFRs) assumed by the alarming projections that drove the initial government response to the epidemic, including broad business closure and stay-at-home orders.
The CDC offers the new estimates in its "COVID-19 Pandemic Planning Scenarios," which are meant to guide hospital administrators in "assessing resource needs"
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Urgent Fury 5/25/2020 5:36:28 PM (No. 421824)
Think people are figuring it out yet?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
LesUNo 5/25/2020 5:36:31 PM (No. 421825)
Basically OP, that would be YES!
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
bad-hair 5/25/2020 5:36:40 PM (No. 421826)
OK Mostly everything is open in Texas and Michigan is still shipping COVYD cases to nursing homes. NOVEMBER.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
EQKimball 5/25/2020 5:44:47 PM (No. 421829)
Brit Hume was right. We are going to look back at this as the most colossal mistake in history. The blue state governors who will try to hang onto their power by claiming they are "following the science" will not be able to sustain this nonsense. Put it on bumper stickers: Reopen America!
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
udanja99 5/25/2020 6:12:14 PM (No. 421842)
The government lied to us. I’m shocked, shocked I tell you!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Bogasso 5/25/2020 6:27:51 PM (No. 421855)
Speaking of statistics on CV19, what happened to the curve they kept reminding us of, in daily (or even more often) updates? I haven’t seen the latest in at least a month; probably longer. I’m genuinely interested in seeing actual vs. model, with no finger pointing. The shutdown has undergone mission creep (maybe not?), that’s obvious to many, and the Real Tyrants will refuse to acknowledge it.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
DVC 5/25/2020 6:29:20 PM (No. 421859)
That is two to three times the death rate of the typical annual flu. China lied, telling us that it was 10 times this deadly.
China's fault.
NO MORE "Made in China" goods. None.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 5/25/2020 6:29:29 PM (No. 421860)
The head of the CDC should be tried for treason and put in jail. Over where we live, people are out and about without masks and doing business as usual. They are all fed up with the virus lies.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 5/25/2020 6:32:43 PM (No. 421864)
Sorry for the second post. But #5, they told President Trump and the virus could kill over 1 million Americans if he didn't shut down the country. So, what do you do if you are the president. You tell the governors to do as they see fit. Remember, this is a federal republic. They did this on purpose to destroy Trump, destroy the best economy in the world and ruin people's lives. For them this is a win in November together with the push for the voting by fraud.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 5/25/2020 6:42:39 PM (No. 421873)
That means Governor Newsome will keep Cali locked down until Halloween. Trick or treat folks.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
The Remnants 5/25/2020 7:17:48 PM (No. 421896)
"Two very smart people", Fauci and Birx, initiated this fiasco, and then the third "expert", Redfield, added his "expertise" to this colossal error of judgment.
Read up on the histories of each of them. It's not the first time they have shown poor judgment, and now the three of them are trying to backtrack before we have any comprehension of the extent of all the damage done to our country and its people.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
NorthernDog 5/25/2020 7:18:03 PM (No. 421897)
The virus was certainly deadly but almost exclusively to people who were vulnerable to a sudden decline in health. Some of those people were only in their 40s or 50s, but most are age 75+. We all know people who 'looked great 2 weeks ago'' but died suddenly of something. COVID-19 killed a lot of these people, but they, perhaps unknowingly, were close to death anyways.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 5/25/2020 7:36:47 PM (No. 421913)
I’m so sick and tired of seem full screen breaking news splashing CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC in black and red colors in sinister font and satanic background. Can they just stop with the fear and panic manufacturing!? I think we all know what’s really going on.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 5/25/2020 7:58:33 PM (No. 421925)
Surprise surprise. What's been going on for the last two months has been wrong on so many levels.
Our government at all levels, both parties, thought they were justified shutting everything down indefinitely. Personally, I cannot think of a single reason to do that. It was the height of incompetence. They are supposed to be leaders. They cannot hide behind some scientist 'expert' spouting BS.
Some of our governors thought they were justified letting people die. Again, there is no reason for that. What they did was criminal.
One of the biggest crimes was perpetrated by the media. They caused a panic. It was the equivalent of shouting 'fire' in a movie theatre. Did they break any laws? If so, they need to be held accountable. If there is no law, there needs to be one.
All this was caused by Trump hatred in an election year. The Trump haters did not care who they hurt. Millions lost their jobs. Thousands of businesses were shutdown. The stock market cratered. The economy was crushed. Trillions were lost. People lost their savings. All because some people hate Trump. They stoked hatred, and that is evil. Hatred is evil. The 'Hate Trump' meme has to stop. There are laws against hate speech.
Finally, what was China's role in all this? At the very least they covered it up. China did not cooperate with the global community regarding CV. They need to be held accountable. If they released CV19 deliberately, there needs to be proof of that. Don't think there is any. If it was deliberate, that was tantamount to an act of war.
Several lines have been crossed in all of this. It cannot be allowed to happen again.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
LanceLink1 5/25/2020 8:23:26 PM (No. 421941)
The gooberment lied to us but remember - YOU can't lie to them.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Italiano 5/25/2020 8:39:19 PM (No. 421952)
H.G. Wells is laughing his ass off. "I wish that I'd thought of that."
2020: The Year of the Sheep.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 5/25/2020 8:49:41 PM (No. 421954)
This would have never been possible if years, nay decades, of dsaster training through fake Global Warming crises hadn't been around. Look at the states taht bit the hardest for this fail pandemic. All, global warming cult blue states. The mind numb never think beyond the sound bite average blue state liberal just swallowed this nonsense like it was some kinda nutritious goo. Typical and expected.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
grayjay 5/25/2020 9:25:52 PM (No. 421967)
But let's not forget to wear our face masks everywhere, because the CDC says we need to (after they didn't)
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
proximo 5/26/2020 1:34:36 AM (No. 422031)
#7, they are saying "best estimate... below 0.3%". It's likely to be way below.
A couple of weeks back, antibody test results for the state of New York, sample size around 1000, showed that approximately 25% of New York City tests were positive for the antibody. That means up 2.2 million city residents could have been infected, or about 2.2 million. At the time, the death rate in NYC was being reported on nyc.gov as 13,500. Do that math. If those numbers hold with additional testing, that's about 6/100ths of one percent death rate or 1/2 that of the seasonal flu.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Strike3 5/26/2020 3:46:52 AM (No. 422055)
If this thing had been serious they would not have needed the 24/7 propaganda on TV to keep the scam going. Many advertisers went along with it and there are some products that I will never buy again, just because... If I hear one more word about barely-employed nurses being "heroes" I'm going to scream. Take away that ugly picture of the virus, we all know what it looks like by now.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
Trigger2 5/26/2020 4:23:01 AM (No. 422061)
The demonrat infested CDC bloated the number of CV-19 deaths in order to shut the economy down in an attempt to convince the public not to reelect the President and to gain more power over the people. Now we learn the actual death rate is 0.4%. Demonrats should be personally sued for their malfeasance and corruption.
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