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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It should be 200k deaths / 330 million people = 0.06% deathrate for this years flu.
Yes! Thank you for refining my thought.
what about age groups?
200k deaths / 328 million people = 99,94% survival rating all ages.
97% of deaths were among 45+ olds.
survival rating for a 30 year old: 3k deaths / 328 million people = 99.99908%
That's just bad math. You're not counting actual flu deaths, you're counting covid deaths only. If you count flu deaths as well, it'll be much higher.
sorry for the confusion. What I meant was that covid can be seen as this years flu season, and the chance to die this year from the flu season.
If you add the other diseases the total deaths will rise. However, look at this graph: flu like symptoms, covid in red follows the same curve as previous years flu seasons.
Furthermore if you look at excess deaths, whenever there is a flu season the excess deaths rise above normal. If we would want to calculate the added risk of covid we would have to subtract the deaths of a normal flu season to get a 'increased death rate / risk'. In june I did just that for the Dutch statistics, was about 30% higher excess deaths than a normal flu season.