dtucker300 wrote:
According to the Center for Disease Control, many more millions of Americans so far have caught the COVID-19 and they now say it could be as high as 1/3 of the country.
The record surge in coronavirus cases across the US is likely far worse, with an estimated eight infections unreported for every one infection counted, according to a government report — which would put the true tally closer to 100 million.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) calculated that by the end of September there had really been as many as 53 million Americans contract the deadly bug — just under eight times the confirmed cases reported at the time.
Of those, the CDC believes about 45 million were sick at some point and about 2.4 million were hospitalized.
So, close to 100 million people have had it, close to 45 million have been sick by it and around 2.5 million people have been to the hospital for it. Now, these numbers are probably off just like all the other
guesstimates we have been given since the pandemic started, and we have shut down the country based on guesses.
This also makes one question how many deaths are actually from COVID-19 and not just someone who was 85 and in hospice caught it and was tested for it before they passed.
If there is any silver lining in this mess it is that this has shown we need to totally revamp the way the government handles these things.
The Feds, led by the CDC, have totally blown this in terms of projections and it has had real-life consequences for the American people.
Corrupt power-hungry politicians like Fredo of CNN’s older brother in New York have taken this ‘crisis’ to shove unfunded mandates down the throats of citizens and close places of worship down based on faulty
projections. Screw the Consitution if it feeds your power-hungry ego. I just wrote about how, the other day, Gov Corrupt out of NY got caught wanting to have his dear old Mum over for Thanksgiving but once the
word got out had to cancel Did Gov. Cuomo Break His Own Order on Thanksgiving Gatherings or Obey Them?
That installs confidence right? The unwashed peasants must live by one set of rules but the elites should live by another. Unless of course the elites get caught then they must save face.
This has been a mess from the get-go and if Joe Biden is sworn in as the next President you can bet that nothing will be done to reform the CDC or any government agency. They will just get bigger and give more
power and you can guess who gets screwed in that scenario.
We do.
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Johns Hopkins University Newsletter Ran Study Saying COVID 'Relatively No Effect on Deaths' in U.S., Then Deleted It After Publication
Nov 27, 2020 9:00 PM ET
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Earlier this week, Johns Hopkins University Newsletter ran a study from Genevieve Briand,assistant program director of the Applied Economics master’s degree program at Hopkins, that looked at the effect of
COVID-19 on U.S. deaths according to data from the CDC.
What the study concluded, and the article said, was something quite profound. The study concluded that the virus had “relatively no effect on deaths in the United States.”
So how could that be? How does that match with the facts of over 200,000 people listed as dying from the virus?
How can that be?
After retrieving data on the CDC website, Briand compiled a graph representing percentages of total deaths per age category from early February to early September, which includes the period from before COVID-19 was detected in the U.S. to after infection rates soared.
Surprisingly, the deaths of older people stayed the same before and after COVID-19. Since COVID-19 mainly affects the elderly, experts expected an increase in the percentage of deaths in older age groups.
However, this increase is not seen from the CDC data. In fact, the percentages of deaths among all age groups remain relatively the same.
So what Briand was saying was that the number of deaths remained relatively the same for the elderly age group. Why?
When Briand looked at the 2020 data during that seasonal period, COVID-19-related deaths exceeded deaths from heart diseases. This was highly unusual since heart disease has always prevailed as the leading
cause of deaths. However, when taking a closer look at the death numbers, she noted something strange. As Briand compared the number of deaths per cause during that period in 2020 to 2018, she noticed that
instead of the expected drastic increase across all causes, there was a significant decrease in deaths due to heart disease. Even more surprising, as seen in the graph below, this sudden decline in deaths is observed
for all other causes.
This trend is completely contrary to the pattern observed in all previous years. Interestingly, as depicted in the table below, the total decrease in deaths by other causes almost exactly equals the increase in deaths
by COVID-19. This suggests, according to Briand, that the COVID-19 death toll is misleading. Briand believes that deaths due to heart diseases, respiratory diseases, influenza and pneumonia may instead be recategorized as being due to COVID-19.
The CDC classified all deaths that are related to COVID-19 simply as COVID-19 deaths. Even patients dying from other underlying diseases but are infected with COVID-19 count as COVID-19 deaths. This is likely
the main explanation as to why COVID-19 deaths drastically increased while deaths by all other diseases experienced a significant decrease.
This is not a complete surprise that it be counted so, as people such as Dr. Deborah Birx explained that anyone who died with the virus was being counted, even if that person might also have died with other issues.
But then, after the piece obviously got a lot of attention, the JHU Newsletter pulled the article, saying that “was being used to support false and dangerous inaccuracies about the impact of the pandemic.”
People were suprised they were pulling their own article and running it down. JHU Newsletter said that there had been excess deaths according to the CDC and disputed the conclusion of Briand. JHU argues that the
people who have comorbidities would be more at risk. That is no doubt true that those with comorbities and other issues would be more at risk. But it doesn’t explain the drop in the numbers of the other illnesses.