Dr. Thomas Price, M.D., former HHS Secretary, was interviewed live this afternoon on OAN. He stated that, according to the CDC, the U.S. mortality rate from COVID-19 is around 0.3-0.4 percent. This is LESS THAN 1%! Dr. Price said that this percentage was higher than that for the seasonal flu, but it's much lower than initially predicted.
I don't doubt his figures at all, but I wanted to find the info on the CDC website, and I couldn't find the mortality rate in their current data (July 11). What I did find was this:
Folks, it's really not as bad as we have been hearing! PTL!!
I don't doubt his figures at all, but I wanted to find the info on the CDC website, and I couldn't find the mortality rate in their current data (July 11). What I did find was this:
Based on death certificate data, the percentage of deaths attributed to pneumonia, influenza or COVID-19 (PIC) decreased from 8.1% during week 27 to 6.4% during week 28, representing the twelfth week of a declining percentage of deaths due to PIC.
If I'm understanding this CDC data correctly, these figures show that the percentages of overall deaths from ALL causes in the U.S. attributed to Pneumonia, Influenza AND COVID-19 (PIC) is now 6.4%. Clearly, this is not the mortality rate for COVID-19. But I wonder if some people are using this figure as the mortality rate (i.e. number of deaths out of number of cases).
Folks, it's really not as bad as we have been hearing! PTL!!
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