Ask an actuary. You know. Those folks that set life insurance rates. Life insurance is the same price as last year?
Here is what Stanford and UCLA is starting to point out:
“These infection fatality rates are remarkably low and are similar to the fatality rate for the seasonal flu.”
“The virus is 10 times less fatal than we first thought.”
Dr. Rajiv Bhatia is an affiliated assistant clinical professor of Medicine at Stanford University. He is a former deputy health officer for the San Francisco Department of Public Health, [email protected]. Dr. Jeffrey Klausner is a professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles.
“To properly assess the mortality risk associated with the coronavirus pandemic, it is necessary to examine deaths and death rates from all causes, not just deaths and death rates from COVID-19.”
They are asking this question because it is clear the Covid-19 numbers are highly inflated from other causes of death.
“During January-May 2020, the CDC and Department of Health and Human Services show about 120,000 total deaths in California, which is similar to the number during January-May 2018.”
They are comparing this current flu season against the last big pandemic that his us in 2017-2018 Flu season. The numbers look the same.
“Thus, the 2020 total death rates in California can be approximated by the 2018 total death rates, which are in the CDC’s WONDER database. I focus here on those under 65 years of age because they include students and most working-age people, and because COVID-19 deaths comprise only 3% of the total deaths in this age range during 2020.”
Experts, such as John Ioannidis, Knut Wittkowski, Francis Collins, and Anders Tegnell were saying things to this effect from the start. We should remember those names for the future. They were already very well respected in their fields; they weren't random cranks. We would do well to remember their names and take their opinions seriously in the future.
Ask an actuary. You know. Those folks that set life insurance rates. Life insurance is the same price as last year?
Here is what Stanford and UCLA is starting to point out:
“These infection fatality rates are remarkably low and are similar to the fatality rate for the seasonal flu.”
“The virus is 10 times less fatal than we first thought.”
Dr. Rajiv Bhatia is an affiliated assistant clinical professor of Medicine at Stanford University. He is a former deputy health officer for the San Francisco Department of Public Health, [email protected]. Dr. Jeffrey Klausner is a professor of Medicine and Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles.
https://calmatters.org/commentary/its-time-to-end-the-state-of-emergency-over-covid-19/
“To properly assess the mortality risk associated with the coronavirus pandemic, it is necessary to examine deaths and death rates from all causes, not just deaths and death rates from COVID-19.”
They are asking this question because it is clear the Covid-19 numbers are highly inflated from other causes of death.
“During January-May 2020, the CDC and Department of Health and Human Services show about 120,000 total deaths in California, which is similar to the number during January-May 2018.”
They are comparing this current flu season against the last big pandemic that his us in 2017-2018 Flu season. The numbers look the same.
“Thus, the 2020 total death rates in California can be approximated by the 2018 total death rates, which are in the CDC’s WONDER database. I focus here on those under 65 years of age because they include students and most working-age people, and because COVID-19 deaths comprise only 3% of the total deaths in this age range during 2020.”
https://news.yahoo.com/california-reopen-coronavirus-stats-science-230000221.html
Experts, such as John Ioannidis, Knut Wittkowski, Francis Collins, and Anders Tegnell were saying things to this effect from the start. We should remember those names for the future. They were already very well respected in their fields; they weren't random cranks. We would do well to remember their names and take their opinions seriously in the future.