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Ballistic Therapy · May 31, 2020

pvreb said:
99.8% survival rate. Where does that figure come from? I have seen that in several memes and posts. Taking the number of Arizona deaths and divide by the number of reported Arizona Covid cases, I come up with something around 95%. At any rate, I think the Covid restrictions are nonsense. Just trying to understand.

Maybe if you averaged it out nation wide or world wide it might come out different.
Personally I doubt we will ever know the truth.

smithers599 · May 31, 2020

pvreb said:
99.8% survival rate. Where does that figure come from? I have seen that in several memes and posts. Taking the number of Arizona deaths and divide by the number of reported Arizona Covid cases, I come up with something around 95%. At any rate, I think the Covid restrictions are nonsense. Just trying to understand.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/why-does-the-cdc-think-the-covid-19-fatality-rate-is-so-low-and-why-wont-it-tell-anyone/?utm_source=recirc-desktop&utm_medium=homepage&utm_campaign=river&utm_content=featured-content-trending&utm_term=first

Last week I was searching the Internet for some COVID-19 statistic or other, and I came across a new CDC website. The site featured some numbers the federal government is using to model the spread of the epidemic. One in particular caught my eye: 0.4 percent, the “current best estimate” of the disease’s “case fatality rate.” The document also said that 35 percent of infections are asymptomatic, which suggests the infection fatality rate is just 0.26 percent.

.4% fatality rate = 99.6% survival rate.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html#box