
04-25-2020, 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted by WelchNH
The author looks well credentialed- until you realize he's a leading advocate for the Hoover Institute (right leaning ideology) and was a radiologist, not a public health expert.
I stopped reading this as a serious bit of medical advice after I did a simple calculation: as of this afternoon, the US had 945,000 reported Covid 19 cases and 53,334 deaths- that's a morbidity rate of 5.6%, not the 0.1%-0.2% the learned doctor claims in his first bullet point. WWD, it's 2.87 M cases and 202 K deaths- that a 7.0% morbidity rate.
The overall morbidity rate of the common flu is between 0.1% and 0.2%- so Covid 19 is an order of magnitude more deadly than the flu. I didn't attempt to examine death rates by age cohort, but all evidence points to Covid 19 as being much more lethal to the 65+ crowd.
Better to trust the reputable scientists and public health experts, rather than ideologues w non-relevant medical credentials!
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You must have missed the numerous antibody studies published which show a much lower death rate.
antibody studies show lower death rate - Bing
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