Your #1 is wrong again, as always. All I have to reply to is your #1. You are an easy target because you are so consistently wrong.
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-689684/v1
Did you actually read what I wrote? Let me capitalize the relevant portion for you to re-read:
1. COVID does not have a 99.98% survival rate. What's your source? MAYBE FOR A CERTAIN POPULATION SLICE, but that's not accurate for general population.
You then link to an article that has the death rate for children and young people. Are children and young people
(a) a certain population slice
(b) general population
Correct, (a) a certain population slice.
If you look at the general population, numbers are higher. Case fatality rate (CFR) depends on many, many factors:
(a) testing rates. In countries with frequent testing, you end up finding far more mild/asymptomatic cases, which pushes up the denominator [cases], which pushes down the case fatality rate (e.g., South Korea, ). In other countries, testing is done more sparsely perhaps for political or cultural reasons (e.g., Egypt, Peru, Brazil, Iran), which may lead to an under-counting of COVID cases, leading to an overestimated CFR.
(b) access to health care, and the prevailing standard of care in a particular city/county/state. In localities where health care is easier to access (cost/insurance matters here) and prevailing standards of care are higher,
(c) population age and co-morbidities distribution. Localities with older populations as well as those with greater obesity, diabetes, etc. will have higher CFR.
(d) other idiosyncratic factors affecting patient behavior. E.g., religious factors favoring praying rather than taking a sick person to a health care facility until the person is gravely ill.
(e) reporting. In some localities, especially poorer rural localities, people die from COVID without ever having professional care, and further may never have a medical examination or post-mortem COVID test. This may result in under-reporting COVID deaths (e.g., India, Bangladesh).
Given all these factors, the "true" CFR really depends on country, or even state or city-level factors.
Nonetheless, if we simply looked at major western European nations and US, we see CFRs in the range of 1-2%.
You are correct re the case fatality rate, it's not 99.98, it is likely much higher. If we listen to the "experts" who have masked and locked people down on the myth of asymptomatic spread and undetected cases, there are tens of thousands more cases that weren't detected. It's always been the elderly and those w multiple comorbidities at risk. Rampant overvaccination of the healthy is just plain stupid, especially here where there is virtually no reduction in infection or transmission, and "status" is being weaponized to persecute those w enough sense to question and reject these chemicals.
Your #1 is wrong again, as always. All I have to reply to is your #1. You are an easy target because you are so consistently wrong.
https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-689684/v1
Did you actually read what I wrote? Let me capitalize the relevant portion for you to re-read:
1. COVID does not have a 99.98% survival rate. What's your source? MAYBE FOR A CERTAIN POPULATION SLICE, but that's not accurate for general population.
You then link to an article that has the death rate for children and young people. Are children and young people
(a) a certain population slice
(b) general population
Correct, (a) a certain population slice.
If you look at the general population, numbers are higher. Case fatality rate (CFR) depends on many, many factors:
(a) testing rates. In countries with frequent testing, you end up finding far more mild/asymptomatic cases, which pushes up the denominator [cases], which pushes down the case fatality rate (e.g., South Korea, ). In other countries, testing is done more sparsely perhaps for political or cultural reasons (e.g., Egypt, Peru, Brazil, Iran), which may lead to an under-counting of COVID cases, leading to an overestimated CFR.
(b) access to health care, and the prevailing standard of care in a particular city/county/state. In localities where health care is easier to access (cost/insurance matters here) and prevailing standards of care are higher,
(c) population age and co-morbidities distribution. Localities with older populations as well as those with greater obesity, diabetes, etc. will have higher CFR.
(d) other idiosyncratic factors affecting patient behavior. E.g., religious factors favoring praying rather than taking a sick person to a health care facility until the person is gravely ill.
(e) reporting. In some localities, especially poorer rural localities, people die from COVID without ever having professional care, and further may never have a medical examination or post-mortem COVID test. This may result in under-reporting COVID deaths (e.g., India, Bangladesh).
Given all these factors, the "true" CFR really depends on country, or even state or city-level factors.
Nonetheless, if we simply looked at major western European nations and US, we see CFRs in the range of 1-2%.
References:
1. https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid
2. https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/covid-19-cumulative-confirmed-cases-vs-confirmed-deaths?minPopulationFilter=1000000
just a concerned brigade 77 citizen, trying to help us all not be fooled by our lying eyes.
You are correct re the case fatality rate, it's not 99.98, it is likely much higher. If we listen to the "experts" who have masked and locked people down on the myth of asymptomatic spread and undetected cases, there are tens of thousands more cases that weren't detected. It's always been the elderly and those w multiple comorbidities at risk. Rampant overvaccination of the healthy is just plain stupid, especially here where there is virtually no reduction in infection or transmission, and "status" is being weaponized to persecute those w enough sense to question and reject these chemicals.