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Originally Posted by Yjacket74
I don't know where you got that CDC number, but at this time there are over 140,000 deaths and over 4,000,000 confirmed cases. That makes the mortality rate at least 3.5% - not .65%. It's easy math 140,000 / 4,000,000. Besides the flu doesn't invade your brain, your blood system and other organs as the NYC pathologists have seen in their autopsies. So the coronavirus is helluva lot more dangerous than the flu - notwithstanding that we don't know what long-term effects will occur in people who were seriously sick and survived.
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How many times do I have to repeat this? The CDC's current Infection Fatality Rate is 0.65%
Why? Because like any sane person should know by now, confirmed cases by tests do not represent the true number of people that have been infected. There are millions of asymptomatic cases out there, they are not tested because they do not get sick at all or have very mild symptoms. Here in Florida, we are starting to uncover more and more of these asymptomatic cases because we are testing 100,000 per day and many of them are not sick but require a test to go back to work.
COVID-19 Pandemic Planning Scenarios | CDC
Despite the media scare stories, Florida hospitals are not being overrun with covid cases and report as of today 25% available hospital beds and 18% available ICU rooms. Even the most infected counties like Broward or Miami Dade show 10% ICU availability. Only 15% of occupied beds are actually covid patients. The rest are normal surgeries etc. These are normal occupancy rates even when there is no pandemic.
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Median age of Florida new cases has been 41 for past two weeks, people of this age rarely die or even need hospitalization from covid 19 unless they have underlying health problems like obesity, diabetes, hypertension.
According to CDC more people 44 and under have died from pneumonia this year than from covid 19
Provisional COVID-19 Death Counts by Sex, Age, and State | Data | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention