Covid about as bad as the flu - says WHO

[sprintcyclist]

The World Health Organization has finally confirmed what we (and many experts and studies) have been saying for months – the coronavirus is no more deadly or dangerous than seasonal flu.

The WHO’s top brass made this announcement during a special session of the WHO’s 34-member executive board on Monday October 5th, it’s just nobody seemed to really understand it.

In fact, they didn’t seem to completely understand it themselves.

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At the session, Dr Michael Ryan, the WHO’s Head of Emergencies revealed that they believe roughly 10% of the world has been infected with Sars-Cov-2.

This is their “best estimate”, and a huge increase over the number of officially recognised cases (around 35 million).

Dr. Margaret Harris, a WHO spokeswoman, later confirmed the figure, stating it was based on the average results of all the broad seroprevalence studies done around the world.

As much as the WHO were attempting to spin this as a bad thing – Dr Ryan even said it means “the vast majority of the world remains at risk.” – it’s actually good news. And confirms, once more, that the virus is nothing like as deadly as everyone predicted.

The global population is roughly 7.8 billion people, if 10% have been infected that is 780 million cases. The global death toll currently attributed to Sars-Cov-2 infections is 1,061,539.

That’s an infection fatality rate of roughly or 0.14%.

Right in line with seasonal flu and the predictions of many experts from all around the world.

0.14% is over 24 times LOWER than the WHO’s “provisional figure” of 3.4% back in March. This figure was used in the models which were used to justify lockdowns and other draconian policies.

In fact, given the over-reporting of alleged Covid deaths, the IFR is likely even lower than 0.14%, and could show Covid to be much less dangerous than flu.

None of the mainstream press picked up on this. Though many outlets reported Dr Ryan’s words, they all attempted to make it a scary headline and spread more panic.

Apparently neither they, nor the WHO, were capable of doing the simple math that shows us this is good news. And that the Covid sceptics have been right all along.

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/did-w ... a-6OV6KQRU

[Black Orchid]

Yup and WHO also says that lockdowns should not be used as a primary control method. A good few months and more than a few dollars short.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news ... rol-method

[sprintcyclist]

Yup and WHO also says that lockdowns should not be used as a primary control method. A good few months and more than a few dollars short.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news ... rol-method

That curdles my grits

[sprintcyclist]

Over 6,000 scientists signed their names to a petition calling for an end to coronavirus lockdowns, citing the “irreparable damage” they have caused.

"As infectious disease epidemiologists and public health scientists we have grave concerns about the damaging physical and mental health impacts of the prevailing COVID-19 policies, and recommend an approach we call Focused Protection,” states the petition, which was signed by over 2,800 medical and public health scientists, over 3,700 medical practitioners, and over 60,000 private citizens, according to Newsweek. "Current lockdown policies are producing devastating effects on short and long-term public health."

The petition continues: "Keeping these measures in place until a vaccine is available will cause irreparable damage, with the underprivileged disproportionately harmed."

The document, known as the Great Barrington Declaration, was co-authored by Harvard professor of medicine Dr. Martin Kulldorff, Oxford professor Dr. Sunetra Gupta, and Stanford Medical School professor Dr. Jay Bhattacharya.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news ... -lockdowns

[Bobby]

This thread appears to be wrong.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johndrake/ ... 992bd91cc0


2. Covid-19 is more fatal than flu

While it is true that seasonal influenza may cause tens of thousands of deaths every year, it does not cause the hundreds of thousands of Covid-19 deaths that have already happened or the millions of deaths predicted to happen in the absence of intervention. Even the case fatality rate, the number of deaths per infection, is much greater with Covid-19. In the 2019-2020 flu season there were around 22,000 influenza deaths, or about one death for every 2000 symptomatic illnesses. In comparison, as of today there has been one death in the US for every 37 symptomatic cases of Covid-19.

This means Covid-19 is 54 times more lethal than the flu.

[sprintcyclist]

This thread appears to be wrong.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johndrake/ ... 992bd91cc0


2. Covid-19 is more fatal than flu

While it is true that seasonal influenza may cause tens of thousands of deaths every year, it does not cause the hundreds of thousands of Covid-19 deaths that have already happened or the millions of deaths predicted to happen in the absence of intervention. Even the case fatality rate, the number of deaths per infection, is much greater with Covid-19. In the 2019-2020 flu season there were around 22,000 influenza deaths, or about one death for every 2000 symptomatic illnesses. In comparison, as of today there has been one death in the US for every 37 symptomatic cases of Covid-19.

This means Covid-19 is 54 times more lethal than the flu.

Thank you Bobby.
that paints quite a different picture

[Bobby]

Thank you Bobby.
that paints quite a different picture

I also think it's a bio weapon.

[Black Orchid]

This thread appears to be wrong.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johndrake/ ... 992bd91cc0


2. Covid-19 is more fatal than flu

While it is true that seasonal influenza may cause tens of thousands of deaths every year, it does not cause the hundreds of thousands of Covid-19 deaths that have already happened or the millions of deaths predicted to happen in the absence of intervention. Even the case fatality rate, the number of deaths per infection, is much greater with Covid-19. In the 2019-2020 flu season there were around 22,000 influenza deaths, or about one death for every 2000 symptomatic illnesses. In comparison, as of today there has been one death in the US for every 37 symptomatic cases of Covid-19.

This means Covid-19 is 54 times more lethal than the flu.

That's still an opinion piece by one professor whereas the ZH article is based on direct quotes from WHO spokespeople.

[Bobby]

This thread appears to be wrong.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/johndrake/ ... 992bd91cc0


2. Covid-19 is more fatal than flu

While it is true that seasonal influenza may cause tens of thousands of deaths every year, it does not cause the hundreds of thousands of Covid-19 deaths that have already happened or the millions of deaths predicted to happen in the absence of intervention. Even the case fatality rate, the number of deaths per infection, is much greater with Covid-19. In the 2019-2020 flu season there were around 22,000 influenza deaths, or about one death for every 2000 symptomatic illnesses. In comparison, as of today there has been one death in the US for every 37 symptomatic cases of Covid-19.

This means Covid-19 is 54 times more lethal than the flu.

That's still an opinion piece by one professor whereas the ZH article is based on direct quotes from WHO spokespeople.

It's hard to know who to believe anymore.

[Juliar]

The harmless Cold Virus is of no consequence to young healthy people who have a strong immune system.

But to old people and sick people with weak immune systems it is a death sentence as it gets into their lungs and then they drown in their own pus.