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Originally Posted by JohnB
According to data at the CDC's National Vital Statistics System, persons over 65 account for 76 % of all reported deaths, 78% of all reported deaths due to COVID19, 82% of reported deaths listing pneumonia as a cause, and 80% of deaths reported with COVID19 and pneumonia coded. I don't see a huge statistical difference in these. We have pneumonia vaccine, no social separaation and did not wear masks yielding a greater percentage of us seniors dying with pneumonia than with COVID for which we separate, wear masks, and there is no vaccine yet. I'm trying to understand the national panic on the basis of actual data rather than its political component. Data is as reported 4/13 -- it does update daily.
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The thing left out from your comments is the highly contagious nature of this virus. Without social distancing many more will get this virus. similar percentages applied to many more people means many more very unfavorable outcomes.