All posts tagged: coronavirus death rates

Ages 69 & under have 99+% survival rate from COVID

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According to data recently released by the US Center for Disease Control (CDC), the COVID survival rate for those 69 and younger is 99+% depending on age and for those 70 years an older, it’s 94.6%. The data reveals that the elderly and those with underlying health issues (often the same people) are clearly the most vulnerable to the Coronavirus and this is where the bulk of the deaths are coming from Breitbart explains: CDC’s new IFR estimates broken down by age are part of the agency’s September 10 update to its “COVID-19 Pandemic Planning Scenarios.” Based on the “Scenario 5: Current Best Estimate” for the IFR, Breitbart News confirmed the updated age-specific survival rates: 0-19 years old, 99.997 percent; 20-49 years old, 99.98 percent; 50-69 years, 99.5 percent; and 70 years old or older, 94.6 percent. That means that for people 69 years old or younger, the survival rate is between 99.5 percent and 99.997 percent, while for those 70 or older, it is an estimated 94.6 percent. Breitbart News gleaned the survival rate figures from the CDC’s …

Study: Lockdowns did not reduce death rates

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According to researchers from the University of Toronto and University of Texas, the lockdowns, that effectively destroyed a country’s economy, had no impact on the death rate from the Coronavirus. In other words, lockdowns did not work. The Daily Mail explains: Lockdowns have not had a big impact on coronavirus death rates around the world, scientists have claimed, and the health of nations beforehand was more important. Dozens of countries have been forced to tell people to stay home and close shops in a bid to stop the Covid-19 pandemic since it broke out in January. But now a study has claimed the drastic measures don’t even work. They found that whether a country was locked down or not was ‘not associated’ with death rate. The study pointed out that there were several factors that did affect death rates that basically revolved on how healthy people in the country were before the virus hit. This included the country’s obesity rates and the average age of its population. The Daily Mail notes: Which factors influenced death …

Study: 80 times more people had COVID than believed

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It is starting to get redundant. I recently reported on a study by CDC indicating that 10 times more people may have caught COVID-19 than previously thought. If this true, then according to the authors this means the death rate for the Coronavirus is significantly below 1% putting it into a ‘severe seasonal flu’ category. But now researchers at Penn State believe that it could be significantly higher, maybe closer to 80 times more. Study Finds reports: It’s already widely speculated by medical professionals and pundits alike that the initial U.S. coronavirus infection rate was grossly undercounted. Now, a new study concludes that the country’s infection rate early on may have been over 80 times greater than originally reported. Moreover, infections across the U.S. likely doubled almost twice as fast as initially estimated. How did this happen? In all likelihood there isn’t one main culprit, researchers believe. Instead, a combination of a lack of tests, asymptomatic carriers, and people not recognizing their own symptoms may be to blame. Now to be fair this is based on …

Some good news mixed with sad: COVID-19 death rates are a three-week old snapshot

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The mainstream media is continually flooding us with the latest daily stats on the number of deaths from COVID-19. Then we read heart-wrenching stories of those who have died from the virus. These are real people and your heart goes out to their families. But I have seen big, bold headlines of the latest death statistics nearly three inches high and after reading these stats and those stories you can lose hope. But we are missing one important fact. According to an article in The Economist: “COVID-19 takes 20-25 days to kill victims.” I know this sounds harsh, but it takes an average of three weeks for the virus to kill once it infects a person. So this means the number of people who died today, in whatever country, province or state you live in, is only a snapshot of how bad things were about three weeks ago. For current data, we need to focus on is the number of new cases and in many places those are trending down. It isn’t necessarily a straight …