It’s actually less when you factor in co-morbidities. Then back it explaining 99.71% survival rate WITH morbidities. Straight up would’ve pulled my calculator out and put Biden’s stupidity front and center. He wants to shutdown over .029% Come on man!
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And then you have to factor in that a lot of the deaths counted as being "from COVID-19" were actually from other causes with COVID-19 either one of several contributing factors, or in some cases simply present but not contributing to the cause of death.
Another statistic that hasn't been factored in is that with such a high percentage of the deaths being among the very elderly, including many in nursing homes, people who were already on hospice status due to other terminal conditions would have been counted as COVID-19 deaths even when there was no attempt to treat the illness, due to the hospice status.
This hit my radar screen when one of the early deaths in my area was reported to have been a 96-year-old nursing home patient who was already on hospice status when diagnosed with COVID-19. Many patients like this may have had originally mild cases, but due to lack of treatment, proceeded to get sicker and die, just as they would have if they'd come down with a common cold (which, with no treatment other than "comfort care", can easily progress to pneumonia and death in a very elderly bed-bound person whose overall condition warrants hospice status).