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The CDC's current "best guess" is that — in a scenario without any further social distancing or other efforts to control the spread of the virus — roughly 4 million patients would be hospitalized in the U.S. with COVID-19 and 500,000 would die over the course of the pandemic. That's according to the agency's new parameters that the Center for Public Integrity plugged into a simple epidemiological model.
originally posted by: Gryphon66
originally posted by: texas thinker
a reply to: Gryphon66
It's been a long day, perhaps my math skills are rusty.
If I divide deaths number by total cases confirmed number I get 0.06 percent.
Can that be right?
I'm not a mathematician nor an epidemiologist.
The issue is in the assumptions. They take the number of deaths and divide that by their estimate of the "total infected" which is further a somewhat wild number.
originally posted by: FISTlCUFF
originally posted by: Gryphon66
originally posted by: texas thinker
a reply to: Gryphon66
It's been a long day, perhaps my math skills are rusty.
If I divide deaths number by total cases confirmed number I get 0.06 percent.
Can that be right?
I'm not a mathematician nor an epidemiologist.
The issue is in the assumptions. They take the number of deaths and divide that by their estimate of the "total infected" which is further a somewhat wild number.
98,261 (deaths) divided by 1,662,414 (cases) = 0.059 =5.9%
originally posted by: texas thinker
a reply to: Gryphon66
It's been a long day, perhaps my math skills are rusty.
If I divide deaths number by total cases confirmed number I get 0.06 percent.
Can that be right?
originally posted by: JBurns
a reply to: Gryphon66
It's not politics, and I didn't say every inch of liberty I said even an inch.
Life has risks. My emotional feelings toward death is irrelevant, nothing supersedes individual liberty.
Viruses are a force of nature. It isn't going anywhere soon. Was proud to see so many Americans ingoring the flapping heads "two weeks away!!! Ahhh, two weeks away now"
Severely overblown.
Do people whine and moan about the flu? Cancer? Heart attack? Car accidents? Way more people die from those things and you barely hear a peep. Sure, they suck no doubt about it. But this scamdemic is overblown and manipulated for political ends.
originally posted by: Thejaybird
There is a reason (and I am not fully sure as to what it is) that TPTB chose this virus to absolutely cripple the economy and assert control over the populace. I have my theories, but am not convinced in my own mind that those theories are correct.
Source: pjmedia.com...
Yet according to ABC News, states that lifted the lockdowns early did not experience a surge in coronavirus hospitalizations, deaths, or the percentage of people testing positive.
“JUST IN: [ABC News] looked at 21 states that eased restrictions May 4 or earlier & found no major increase in hospitalizations, deaths or % of people testing positive in any of them. [SC, MT, GA, MS, SD, AR, CO, ID, IA, ND, OK, TN, TX, UT, WY, KS, FL, IN, MO, NE, OH] via [Ariel Mitropoulos],” ABC News lead medical reporter Eric Strauss tweeted.
originally posted by: carewemust
Reporters who tell the truth about Covid-19, like this one from ABC News, get ignored by the majority of their colleagues and the medical community.
Source: pjmedia.com...
Yet according to ABC News, states that lifted the lockdowns early did not experience a surge in coronavirus hospitalizations, deaths, or the percentage of people testing positive.
“JUST IN: [ABC News] looked at 21 states that eased restrictions May 4 or earlier & found no major increase in hospitalizations, deaths or % of people testing positive in any of them. [SC, MT, GA, MS, SD, AR, CO, ID, IA, ND, OK, TN, TX, UT, WY, KS, FL, IN, MO, NE, OH] via [Ariel Mitropoulos],” ABC News lead medical reporter Eric Strauss tweeted.