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Was anybody else wondering why 7 million infections and 200K deaths were being thrown around and nobody does the math explaining that only equates to a .029% death rate? This is how you turn big numbers into small ones. Duh!
posted ago by RandoMando2A ago by RandoMando2A +1180 / -0

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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– jgardner 7 points ago +7 / -0
  • CASE fatality rate is the number of people we have tested positive that die. That's the number, and when doing pandemics, it's a USELESS and MEANINGLESS number.
  • INFECTED fatality rate is the number of people who got the disease and that die. Early on, we were finding tons and tons of people had the disease, far more than we expected. This number is the important number, but even then...
  • TOTAL fatality rate is the number of people who live in the county and died. THIS, and only this number, is meaningful. It's how we measure the flu death rates. A certain percentage of the population will get the flu and die from it each year.

The TOTAL fatality rate of COVID-19 is ridiculously low. They have to expand the number of deaths to include anyone who may have possibly tested positive. It's utterly silly. It's like counting people who die from auto accidents as a flu death.

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– jgardner 5 points ago +5 / -0

I should add, you can calculate the TOTAL fatality rate based on 2 things:

  1. How many people you expect to get the disease, based on how many people are already immune and how infectious the disease is.
  2. How many people who get the disease die from it.

The CASE fatality rate DOESN'T EVEN ENTER into it at all!

NO ONE CARES what the CASE fatality rate except reporters!

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