In a Thursday report published by the New England Journal of Medicine, Fauci conceded COVID-19’s death rate was twice that of the common flu, making it roughly 0.28 percent.
I included the embedded link to the NEJM article the OP linked in this post.
The problem: the NEJM article doesn't say what the OANN article claims. OANN appears to have added "making it roughly 0.28 percent," but I can't even find anything in the article where Fauci (or any other author of the article) "conceded" anything like what it claims.
If someone can find such a concession, please reply to me and quote the entire sentence, in context. I'll edit my comment.
US case fatality rate now = 1.4% (deaths/confirmed cases)
The only citation of 1.4% in the article is from a Chinese article:
In another article in the Journal, Guan et al.[5] report mortality of 1.4% among 1099 patients with laboratory-confirmed Covid-19; these patients had a wide spectrum of disease severity.
Footnote #5 is the cited article:
Guan W, Ni Z, Hu Y, et al. Clinical characteristics of coronavirus disease 2019 in China. N Engl J Med. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa2002032.
that document died not contain "28" anywhere for what it's worth. he said it's likely that it's closer to the flu, but that's all
This post if borderline fake news. Thanks for pointing it out.
It appears the OP read this OANN article:
https://www.oann.com/dr-anthony-fauci-backtracks-on-deadliness-of-virus/
Which claims:
I included the embedded link to the NEJM article the OP linked in this post.
The problem: the NEJM article doesn't say what the OANN article claims. OANN appears to have added "making it roughly 0.28 percent," but I can't even find anything in the article where Fauci (or any other author of the article) "conceded" anything like what it claims.
If someone can find such a concession, please reply to me and quote the entire sentence, in context. I'll edit my comment.
Truth is the virus barely touches what the flu haS already done, with the exception of what trump has used it for.
The only citation of 1.4% in the article is from a Chinese article:
Footnote #5 is the cited article:
Deaths divided by confirmed cases is not the death percentage. Deaths divided by recovered patients is the death percentage.
Are we reddit now?