[ May 5, 2024 ]
The Democrat media complex has weaponized COVID. It’s over, but that is irrelevant. They are clubbing us into submission with it, or until they defeat greatest President of my lifetime.
What the Media Won’t Tell You About the United States’ Coronavirus Case Fatality Rate
By: PJM July 17, 2020
Without fail, the media seems intent on making America out to be the lone failure in the world in the battle against the coronavirus.
Many media outlets have described the United States as “losing the war” against the coronavirus because of the number of cases keeps going up. Axios, for example created a chart show that if all coronavirus patients (confirmed cases) were a city, it would be the third-largest city in the country. The recent trend of the media to focus on the total number of cases seems to be a result of the recent spike cases that failed to produce a similar spike in deaths. So far, we’ve only just seen a small bump in fatalities, and there is evidence that data dumps of backlogged data could be inflating those numbers.
Nevertheless, because we’ve witnessed a spike in cases and there have roughly 3.5 million cases in the United States, that’s the number the media seems to be gravitating to. Why? Because when you look at the number of cases or the number deaths individually and compare them to other countries, the USA seems be the hardest hit…
…that is until you account for population or look at the ratio of deaths per confirmed cases. I’ve previously examined how the United States measures up on cases and deaths per capita, so we know why the media doesn’t report on that, but the media the media also doesn’t want to report about case fatality rate (CFR). And the following graphs will show you why.
I decided to look at the case fatality rate of the United States and compare it to select European countries. We often hear about how enlightened Europe is compared to the United States, with their progressive politics and various version of universal health care. So, let’s see how they measure up:
COVID-19 Case Fatality Rate (CFR) comparison of USA and select European countries.
I wonder why the media doesn't report this. 🤔
(Chart via https://t.co/SXYUO5VBEt) pic.twitter.com/0FNd0wr4H9
— Matt Margolis (@mattmargolis) July 16, 2020
How about that! Out of the twelve countries compared here, the United States currently comes in at the bottom, ranking at number eleven.
And before anyone suggests that my selection of countries was biased, let’s compare the United States to the entire European Union, and for kicks let’s add Canada into the mix:
COVID-19 Case Fatality Rate (CFR) comparison of USA with European Union and Canada.
Again, why does the media pretend the USA is doing the worst in the world? 🤔
(Chart via https://t.co/SXYUO5VBEt) pic.twitter.com/29SW2uYzLn
— Matt Margolis (@mattmargolis) July 16, 2020
Well, look at that. The United States’ CFR (3.93 percent) is significantly lower than the European Union (10.36 percent) and Canada (8.1 percent).
Keep in mind that New York City is the hotspot of the entire world, not just the United States. Had the failure of local leadership by Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio not occured, the United States would have come out even better when compared to the rest of the world.
RELATED: Are Recent COVID-19 Cases in Florida Inflated? Data Suggests It Could Be as Much as 30 Percent
Now, obviously, CFR is not necessarily the best or most accurate metric. As OurWorldInData explains, “it’s important to note that it is the ratio between the number of confirmed deaths from the disease and the number of confirmed cases, not total cases. That means that it is not the same as – and, in fast-moving situations like COVID-19, probably not even very close to – the true risk for an infected person.” This is very true. The CFR in the United States is currently just under 4 percent, but that doesn’t mean nearly 4 percent of the people infected by COVID-19 will die. According to the CDC, the overall mortality rate for symptomatic cases of COVID-19 is likely .4 percent. While CFR might not give us an accurate account of mortality risk, it does give us insight into the volume of testing and the efficacy of treatments. In regards to both, we’re doing a good job—much better than those countries that supposedly have better health care systems than we do.
But what this proves is that the media is still avoiding any comparison that shows the United States is a positive light compared to other countries during this pandemic. Back in March, I noted how the media was avoiding cases and deaths data per capita because that showed that the United States was doing better than other comparable countries. That data didn’t show the United States as number one for deaths or cases. The media wants us to believe the United States is disproportionately losing the battle against COVID-19 compared to other nations because they want the public to blame Trump and vote him out of office.
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16 Comments
3 years ago
The labs have been reporting 100% of the tests as positive, which is not possible. The real number is about 9.4%, so there is an agenda afoot to destroy the economy in order to bring down Trump. Remember Bill Maher begging for a recession to bring down Trump? They cannot let the Trump economy rise again.
3 years ago
COVID-19 is now much more treatable, and that’s why the deaths are coming WAY down.
When it first hit, the treatment protocols were erratic at best, non-existent at worst. Many of those that died in the initial wave were from either non-treatment or incorrect treatment (in light of what we now know). Also, there were many deaths in New York from malpractice where an inexperienced resident cranked up the ventilators until they blew out the patient’s lungs (whoops!). Now the medical professionals in the know have a descent protocol to prevent/treat the cytokine storm which is the mode to death of a COVID-19 infection, where the patient happens to be one of those predisposed to this sequence of events (about 3% of the population).
3 years ago
Reply to
VMS
Bill Gates negotiated contact tracing contract 6 months prior to Corona
True Pundit – Bill Gates negotiated contact tracing contract 6 months prior to Corona:
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation helped negotiate who would score a $100 Billion government-backed contact tracing contract in August 2019 — six months before the ‘pandemic’ arrived in the United States and four months before it swept through China, writes Fort Russ News.
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shocking revelations were unveiled on the Thomas Paine Podcast and the Moore Paine Show on Patreon by the two investigators who blew
the whistle on the massive Clinton Foundation tax fraud during a Congressional hearing in 2018. John Moynihan and Larry Doyle testified in Congress, detailing the fraud and schemes utilized by the Clinton’s to avoid paying up to $2.5 BILLION in federal taxes.
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Bill Gates negotiated contact tracing contract 6 months prior to Corona: The investigative duo, in their first interview since that bombshell Congressional testimony, revealed to Paine that representatives from the Gates Foundation met with U.S. Congressman Bobby L. Rush at a sit down in Rwanda, East Africa in mid August 2019 to hash out who would score the windfall from a government contact tracing program.
And just last month — nine months after the meetings with the Gates Foundation in Rwanda — Rush, a Democrat from Illinois, introduced the $100 BILLION H.R. 6666, the COVID-19 Testing, Reaching and Contacting Everyone (TRACE) Act.
Rush’s bill would establish a program run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for national coronavirus testing and contact tracing.
Paine has since learned Congressman Rush traveled to Rwanda with his spouse from August 12th to 19th, 2019 to take part in talks and a week-long event underwritten by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.
But how can you negotiate the byproducts of monitoring a pandemic six to seven months before the outbreak of the virus even happens?
3 years ago
AMEN! GREAT, INSIGHTFUL ARTICLE FROM PAM GELLER GIVING THE KIND OF INFO WE EXPECT FROM HER AND THIS BOARD! I COME HERE FOR YOU, PAM GELLER BUT I WILL GIVE AS MUCH AS I GET WHEN IT COMES TO COMMENTS OF INCITEMENT! WISH OTHER FOLKS WOULD STAY ON RELEVANT TOPICS AND NOT MINDLESSLY INSULT FOLKS FOR NOTHING BUT IT IS WHAT IT IS! SUPER SUMMER, RIGHTISTS!
3 years ago
HE WAS ON DRUGS THAT MIGHT HAVE LED TO THE BRUTALITY HE SUFFERED AFFECTING HIM WORSE THAN IT COULD HAVE BUT I HAVE NO DOUBT HIS DEATH WAS SOUGHT BY CHAUVIN!
3 years ago
Wow! Sixteen stories on this site today and this is the only one dealing with the coronavirus, probably because people are waking up to the hoax dimensions of the supposed pandemic.
By my amateur calculations, the current death rate for the US for the virus is 3.7% and for the world, which includes the half-civilized, it is 4.5%.
I’m in no rush to delve into gloom and doom nor to sit down and write out my last will and testament.
As a test, ask practically anyone how many people they personally know who have the virus. Most will say none, the same number of people they know who have won the lottery.
All clear now?
3 years ago
Hospitals and clinics are getting paid for CV19 so they pad the numbers for money. I have heard of several people waiting in line for hours to get tested only to leave before getting the test. A few days later they get a letter in the mail saying they are positive.
The walk-in clinics around here were testing up to 80 people a day until the lab ran out of swabs. So everyone is getting tested and they are lying about the results. What do you think will happen?
3 years ago
The “virus”… is a DEMO-crap/COMMUNIST PLANNED-demic… to destroy America..
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These “USEFUL IDIOTS’… aka: DEMO-commies don’t realize… the ChiComs want their houses too… BANG… they just took it
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3 years ago
Reply to
whammie
THERE IS TRUTH HERE EXCEPT INSTEAD OF “SOCIALISM” I WOULD SAY “LEFTIST IDEOLOGIES” OR “COMMUNISM”! ALSO THE MAOIST CHINESE ARE INTO BUYING REAL ESTATE AND INVESTING IN TOLL ROADS IN THE USA! WE PUT ALL KINDS OF RESTRICTIONS ON RUSSIANS OVER RETAKING THEIR TERRITORY OF CRIMEA, WHY DON’T WE IN THE USA PUT RESTRICTIONS ON MAOIST CHINESE LIVING OVERSEAS BUYING UP U.S. PROPERTY ESPECIALLY OUR ROADS? CHEERS!
3 years ago
What we are seeing today are the results of the obama’s islamic mandates. From the BLM, to the recent launch of an Arabic probe to MARS which was likely funded by the pallets of cash the obama threw to the moslems. The so called obamacare has caused major corruption in the health care industry and made the care of patients the lowest priority on the list of bureaucratic requirements. Certainly in tubing a person could be a death sentence.
3 years ago
To understand the virus death rate it has to be compared with previous years. Its easy to see on this site that we have nothing to fear but fear itself!
https://www.cebm.net/covid-19/covid-19-mortality-over-time-ons-update-2nd-june/
3 years ago
The numbers show far more about how phony it all is than any real death rates.
3 years ago
……………………………………………. FACE MASKS DO NOT WORK …………………………………….
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The reference is: “Nonpharmaceutical Measures for Pandemic Influenza in Nonhealthcare Settings—Personal Protective and Environmental Measures.”
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Published in: “Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol.26, No. 5, May 2020.” (This journal is published
by the CDC.)
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I quote from the abstract: “Here, we review the evidence base on the effectiveness of non-pharmaceutical personal protective measures and environmental hygiene measures in non-healthcare settings and discuss their potential inclusion in pandemic plans. Although mechanistic studies [*] support the potential effect of hand hygiene or face masks, evidence from 14 randomized controlled trials of these measures did not support a substantial effect on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza. We similarly found limited evidence on the effectiveness of improved hygiene and environmental cleaning.”
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Here are quotes from pages 970-972 of the review:
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“In our systematic review, we identified 10 RCTs [randomized controlled trials] that reported estimates of
the effectiveness of face masks in reducing laboratory-confirmed influenza virus infections in the community from literature published during 1946-July 27, 2018. In pooled analysis, we found no significant reduction in influenza
transmission with the use of face masks…”
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“Disposable medical masks (also known as surgical masks) are loose-fitting devices that were designed to be worn by medical personnel to protect accidental contamination of patient wounds, and to protect the wearer against splashes or sprays of bodily fluids… There is limited evidence for their effectiveness in preventing influenza virus transmission either when worn by the infected person for source control or when worn by uninfected persons to reduce exposure. Our systematic review found no significant effect of face masks on transmission of laboratory-confirmed influenza.”
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“In this review, we did not find evidence to support a protective effect of personal protective measures or
environmental measures in reducing influenza transmission.”
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“We did not find evidence that surgical-type face masks are effective in reducing laboratory-confirmed
influenza transmission, either when worn by infected persons (source control) or by persons in the general community to reduce their susceptibility…”
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[*] In case you want to quibble about the value of what the authors refer to as “mechanistic studies,” the
authors are correctly setting those studies off to the side, in favor of the material they preferred to examine: randomized controlled trials—which are widely considered to be more valuable, relevant, and meaningful.
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Take off your masks. Governors and mayors and presidents and prime ministers, cancel the orders to wear masks. You’re non-scientific. In the extreme.
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SOURCE: wwwnc.cdc.gov/eid/article/26/5/19-0993_article (Note the “wwwnc” — which is correct. It is not “www”.
3 years ago
It’s all about trying to bring down Trump and destroying the US.
