TODAY’S TAKEAWAYS
Reminder in today’s news section – In 2009–10, 60 million Americans had H1N1, and 18,000 died
Multiple recent studies from Iceland, Germany, USC, Stanford and New York City all suggest that the fatality rate if infected is likely far lower than early estimates, perhaps under 0.1 to 0.4 percent, i.e., 10 to 40 times lower than estimates that motivated extreme isolation.
In the Big Apple, with almost one-third of all US deaths, the rate of death for all people ages 18 to 45 is 0.01 percent, or 13 per 100,000 in the population, one-eightieth of the rate for people age 75 and over.
Of 7,959 NYC COVID-19 deaths fully investigated for underlying conditions, 99.2 percent had an underlying illness
“Journalists continue to sustain the pandemic narrative.”
Recent studies have shown that the virus is far more widespread, far less lethal, and probably started much earlier than previously thought
and much more…
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FLORIDA CASE DATA
TOTAL CASES IN FLORIDA
32,138
Florida DOH Dashboard
MORTALITY RATE IN FLORIDA
3.4%
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/coronavirus/
CONFIRMED CASE MORTALITY RATE IN THE UNITED STATES
5.62%
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/coronavirus/
(REASON TO BE VERY SKEPTICAL OF THIS NUMBER)
% OF US FATALITIES THAT ARE IN NEW YORK OR NEW JERSEY
50.9%
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/coronavirus/
% OF US FATALITIES THAT ARE IN FLORIDA
1.93%
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TESTS & RESULTS
NUMBER OF FLORIDIANS TESTED FOR COVID-19
358,127
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/coronavirus/
NUMBER OF AMERICANS TESTED FOR COVID-19
5,696,928
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/coronavirus
CONFIRMED POSITIVE AS A % OF POPULATION IN FLORIDA
0.146%
Based on population estimate from census.gov/quickfacts/FL
FATALITIES AS A % OF POPULATION IN FLORIDA
0.0049%
Based on population estimate from census.gov/quickfacts/FL
PERCENTAGE OF FLORIDIANS TESTED W/ POSITIVE RESULTS
9%
Calculated from COVID-19 Daily Report
PERCENTAGE OF FLORIDIANS TESTED W/ NEGATIVE RESULTS
91%
Calculated from COVID-19 Daily Report
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DATA SOURCES