It's not even that high. They are intentionally inflating the COVID-19 death count by calling any and all death (no antibody test required) a COVID-19 death, if there is any chance at all that it could "reasonably" be attributed to COVID-19. This is per CDC guidance published on April 2 (https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvss/vsrg/vsrg03-508.pdf). Beyond that, they can only calculate the case mortality rate. The infection mortality rate (the one that actually matters) cannot be calculated (AT ALL) without having an accurate count of the true number of folks infected by this virus. The medical community have not and cannot test the entire population (not enough tests from the beginning and only sick/paranoid people show up to get tests anyway). Far more people have been infected in reality, they just don't have any symptoms. The media's conflation of the infection and case mortality rates has been the primary fuel of this hysteria. The media knows the difference between case mortality rate and infection mortality rate, but they are quite intentionally conflating the two to drive this hysteria.
When this is all said and done and the truth comes out (if ever because too many people have their reputations to protect), we will find that the true INFECTION MORTALITY RATE was no higher than .02%).
When this is all said and done and the truth comes out (if ever because too many people have their reputations to protect), we will find that the true INFECTION MORTALITY RATE was no higher than .02%).
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