The CDC Just Gave Us the Biggest Reason to End the Coronavirus Lockdowns
Matt Margolis | May 22, 2020 12:46 PM ESTThe U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
now estimates that 35 percent of coronavirus infections are asymptomatic.
But that’s not even the most important part of their latest estimates. It’s the CDC’s new “best estimate†for the case fatality rate amongst symptomatic patients. . . .
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Several studies have suggested that Trump was right. But, now here’s what the CDC is saying about the fatality rate the coronavirus:
- 0-49 years old: .05%
- 50-64 years old: .2%
- 65+ years old: 1.3%
- Overall ages: .4%
According to the CDC’s current best estimate, the case fatality rate of the coronavirus is .4 percent. And that’s just amongst symptomatic cases, which, the CDC estimates, is 65 percent of all cases. This means the CDC estimates that the fatality rate for all infections across all age groups, symptomatic as well as asymptomatic,
is approximately .26 percent.https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/matt-margolis/2020/05/22/the-cdc-just-gave-us-the-biggest-reason-to-end-the-coronavirus-lockdowns-n417178
And to think we destroyed our economy over a disease with a 0.26% fatality rate.