Some antivaxxers and COVID-deniers claimed that death rate from COVID was 0.04%, though in 2021 it was revised to 0.4%. The original number was from a SINGLE study that was never peer-reviewed in the earliest days of COVID pandemic (March or April 2020). Reuters did a whole article on this showing the number is completely bogus.
But what exactly *is* death rate? What is the denominator? The entire population of the US? Or those that had been infected with COVID? Or somewhere in between?
Given that US has documented since the beginning of 2020 44.8M cases of COVID, with 723K deaths, the death rate among those infected was roughly 1.61% or about 1 in 62. Keep in mind that seasonal flu has a death rate of 0.1%. (Feel free to verify the numbers via Google search) Dr. Fauci was actually slightly understating the case when he said COVID is ten times more deadly than the seasonal flu.
And that's for the ENTIRE US of A. In places where ICU was already full and hospitals are rationing care, death rate is expected to hit 2-3%, perhaps higher. Indeed, that's what happened to Wuhan, China before a total shutdown of the city got things under control.
And just imagine the massive cost of transporting COVID patients hundreds of miles for an ICU bed.
Or the collateral damage to patients who originally just need quick treatments, but instead, was forced to wait and their situation got worse... or died, because all local hospitals are full of COVID patients, who are unvaxxed. Remember, COVID vaccines reduce or even eliminate hospitalization, even if they failed to prevent infection.
Actually, you don't need to imagine such. They have already happened in the areas with the highest antivax sentiments. You've already seen stories like "man turned down by 43 hospitals".
Don't be a COVIDiot. Get vaxxed. It's your civic duty.
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