WASHINGTON, DC, March 8- Unsettling reports have emerged that seem to show COVID-19 is not as deadly as it has been made out to be. But there is no evidence that coronavirus deaths are overblown. The numbers don’t lie. As of mid-February, a total of 914,230 Americans had succumbed to the disease. However, the vast majority of COVID deaths were among men and women 65 years of age and older—679,808, nearly 75%, according to the number crunchers at Statistica.com. Indeed, the vast majority in that grouping was 75 years old and older and numbered 470,607.
The disproportionate population of seniors who died is noteworthy. The elderly are more likely to have underlying health issues, to begin with, and so it is understandable that an argument is being made that perhaps most of them passed away due to those issues. The National Council on Aging tells us, for example, that “eighty percent of adults 65 and older have at least one chronic condition, while 68% have two or more.”
A year ago, Stanford University doctors Eran Bendavid and Jay Bhattacharya penned an Opinion article for the Wall Street Journal that suggested the way the COVID death rate was being reported was inaccurate. “The true fatality rate is the portion of those infected [with the COVID disease] who die, not the deaths from identified positive cases,” they argued. The question is if a person tested positive for COVID and had one or more serious preconditions such as heart disease, respiratory disease, cerebrovascular disease, did he or she die from the COVID infection or from the underlying illness?
The issue cropped up again a few weeks ago when British Health Minister Sajid Javid told reporters at a news conference, “We estimate that around 40 percent of the people with COVID in hospital [in the U.K.] are there not because they’ve got COVID , but they happen to have COVID, so it’s what you might call an incidental infection … That’s almost double the percentage that we saw with Delta, and that’s important because the deaths that are being reported of people who were COVID-positive within 28 days of passing away, many of those people would not have necessarily died of COVID.”
Soon after the Minister’s remarks, a “You-Tuber” who calls himself Dr. John Campbell, posted a video report in which he interpreted Javid as suggesting it is important to take age and health into account when counting those who died due to COVID because they were close to death, anyway.
Referring to the 131,372 individuals who died between the outbreak of COVID in the U.K. through September 30, 2021, Campbell said just 17,371 of them had no pre-existing conditions, and that was the actual number of people who died from COVID. As he saw it, the remaining 114,000 did suffer from an underlying condition and should not be included in the COVID mortality count.
Another YouTuber, Professor Greg Whyte, a biomedical researcher, and professor at the National University of Singapore, took umbrage at Campbell’s presentation, calling it “particularly dangerous misinformation.” Professor Whyte says Campbell’s “argument seems to be that those who died from COVID and had pre-existing conditions were already in some sense ill and that their illness or their condition means that we shouldn’t add as much importance to their deaths.”
So, who are those most likely to die from a COVID infection? Dr. David Grabowski, professor of health care policy at Harvard Medical School, in an interview on PBS News Hour, said it’s the oldest among us who are. “They’re individuals aged 85 and older. They’re individuals with comorbidities — cardiovascular disease, obesity, diabetes. They are also typically individuals living in nursing homes … And these congregate living environments are actually the perfect storm for the spread of COVID. You have individuals often sharing a room, sharing a bathroom, communal dining, and activities. So all of these features lead to those big outbreaks we have all read about.”
But, in the end, they died as a result of COVID.
Probably will go away by Easter…..
You did not take into account the false positive Covid tests. Unless it is known how many cycles are used by the testers doing the PCR tests, they could themselves be causing positive test results, making much of the data suspect.
Our unfortunate position with the entire COVID plandemic is that we can’t trust most of the information we heard from FDA, CDC, the white house or media. Building arguments on weak or inaccurate data doesn’t end up being very useful either.
I think by now almost everyone knows this virus was used along with other scare tactics to enable the democrats, tech oligarchs and elites to steal the 2020 elections, allow teachers to basically have 2 plus years of distance learning and vacations from teaching and make the wearing of the veil of shame the new normal! It will be interesting to see what these power and control hungry despot’s try during the mid-terms in 2022 and the presidential elections in 2024 considering what’s been revealed to the voting public thus far. I can only hope people have learned from history…
And how many of the proven medicines were banned by our own government and how much money was made by big pharma on “experimental” covid “vaccines”? How many people made billions? How many of those sick people could have been saved by another means? Far too many unanswered questions and far too much money in the wrong hands for proper research. It was quite clear from the get go that many of the “mandates” were being made up as they went along.
From the beginning if you took the time to do the math, you’re chances of getting covid was marginal, as were your chances of dying from it. Covid is a disease of opportunity. If you were dying, it killed you. If you had a hand full of chronic health problems that were not under control it could kill you. And there was a small percentage that it killed who were perfectly healthy.
But many people were positive who survived. Symptoms ranged wildly from mild to severe. And it didn’t always match the health status of the individual involved. Several were vaccinated and still died. Did the vaccine help? Did anything actually help? Do we have anything now that helps? Probably for those with health conditions that they are taking a hand full of pills for every morning and were successfully keeping them under control and living mostly a normal life it did. And we probably do need the boosters. But covid is a virus of opportunity, give it a chance to kill you and it will. So roll the dice and live as you please. I’ll take the shots and wear the mask – that’s my choice, my right – I also wear a seat belt.
Probably will go away by Easter…..
You did not take into account the false positive Covid tests. Unless it is known how many cycles are used by the testers doing the PCR tests, they could themselves be causing positive test results, making much of the data suspect.
Our unfortunate position with the entire COVID plandemic is that we can’t trust most of the information we heard from FDA, CDC, the white house or media. Building arguments on weak or inaccurate data doesn’t end up being very useful either.
I think by now almost everyone knows this virus was used along with other scare tactics to enable the democrats, tech oligarchs and elites to steal the 2020 elections, allow teachers to basically have 2 plus years of distance learning and vacations from teaching and make the wearing of the veil of shame the new normal! It will be interesting to see what these power and control hungry despot’s try during the mid-terms in 2022 and the presidential elections in 2024 considering what’s been revealed to the voting public thus far. I can only hope people have learned from history…
And how many of the proven medicines were banned by our own government and how much money was made by big pharma on “experimental” covid “vaccines”? How many people made billions? How many of those sick people could have been saved by another means? Far too many unanswered questions and far too much money in the wrong hands for proper research. It was quite clear from the get go that many of the “mandates” were being made up as they went along.
From the beginning if you took the time to do the math, you’re chances of getting covid was marginal, as were your chances of dying from it. Covid is a disease of opportunity. If you were dying, it killed you. If you had a hand full of chronic health problems that were not under control it could kill you. And there was a small percentage that it killed who were perfectly healthy.
But many people were positive who survived. Symptoms ranged wildly from mild to severe. And it didn’t always match the health status of the individual involved. Several were vaccinated and still died. Did the vaccine help? Did anything actually help? Do we have anything now that helps? Probably for those with health conditions that they are taking a hand full of pills for every morning and were successfully keeping them under control and living mostly a normal life it did. And we probably do need the boosters. But covid is a virus of opportunity, give it a chance to kill you and it will. So roll the dice and live as you please. I’ll take the shots and wear the mask – that’s my choice, my right – I also wear a seat belt.