Michael Foster <mf...@yahoo.com> wrote: Yes, you are correct about the 6% figure. They merely stated that 6% of > cases that listed covid19 as the sole cause of death failed to list the > co-morbidities. >
Correct. COVID-19 itself does not kill patients directly as often as it leaves them open to secondary infections and things like that. But you have fallen into the trap of the CDC's tricky manipulation of data. > There have been up to 80,000 deaths per year supposedly caused by influenza > (which strains?). The CDC then gives the mortality rate based upon an > *estimated* number of infections. In other words, any number they want to > make up. > No, they do not make up these numbers. The numbers are based on clinical data from doctors and hospitals, and field studies. They are estimated because ordinary influenza is not on the list of diseases that doctors must report. Some forms of influenza have to be reported but not others. See: https://medlineplus.gov/ency/article/001929.htm They then state the mortality rate among *known* covid infections. > That is the only thing they can do. There are no other reliable numbers at present. There will be more data after widespread antibody tests can be performed. In any case, we know that COVID-19 kills at least 10 times more people than influenza in a typical year. Influenza typically kills around 30,000, although some years a dangerous strain will kill many more. We know that COVID-19 has only infected a small fraction of the population, because people have taken precautions such as wearing masks, whereas influenza infects a much larger fraction. If COVID-19 were to spread as widely as influenza usually does, it would kill ~40 times more people than influenza. It would also disable many people for life with permanent lung damage, strokes, heart problems, amputations and so on. Influenza seldom does that. So it is far more lethal and serious. > These people at the CDC, the NIH and the FDA are corrupt to the nines. > Not the ones I know. They are hardworking scientists. I think you should not generalize about people you know nothing about. In the FDA, and I know this is hard to believe, many of the employees' > salaries are actually paid by pharmaceutical companies. > That would be against Federal law. I know several people who work or worked for Uncle Sam, such as my late mother. They cannot accept so much as a ham sandwich from anyone. Where did you read that? Be careful what you believe.
