VIDEO: Plunging Covid Death Rate Mostly Avoided by Media

[pjcomix]

Have you noticed something missing in almost all reports about Covid-19 (coronavirus) cases lately? It is the death rate. And why would that be? Perhaps because in the midst of all the reporting about the number of cases rising (or people reported testing positive) the actual number of daily deaths has been PLUNGING. As you can see in the Worldometers graphs, the daily deaths have dropped dramatically from April 21 to May 21 to June 21 with a drop of over 50% in just the past month.

Yes, the same media that emphasized the daily deaths during April and most of May are now mostly mum on that very important statistic. In this video you will see a few clips of the media emphasizing the rise in people testing positive while avoiding the number of daily deaths which they used to focus on not so long ago.

Each clip is followed by the daily death graphs from Worldometers to keep their reporting in perspective.

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[jmyrlefuller]

New York is still pulling in about 600 new cases a day. New deaths have plummeted to 10.

For perspective: there were around 11,000 new cases a day and 770 deaths at the peak of the pandemic in mid-April. A 7% recorded death rate. Now the death rate is under 2%. (And that does not factor in the lag of a few weeks that the virus takes to kill; that's far more variable than the incubation period. Factor in a roundabout number--say, two weeks--and the death rate falls to under 1%.)

At this point, it's hard to deny that the virus isn't much more deadly than the flu. It may have been earlier in the pandemic, but for a number of reasons, the virus is losing its potency.

[sneakypete]

Seems to ME the focus is reporting on how many test positive for it,with no mention of how many of those people even get sick,never mind need to be hospitalized.

And "No,testing positive for it does NOT mean you are going to die from it. It doesn't even mean you are going to get sick."

[aligncare]

We’ve had flu seasons worse than this. Only Trump wasn’t president then. Difference?

No case by case breaking news stories, no model predictions of mass death overrunning hospitals, no panic for respirators, no demands for lockdowns, no crippling the economy, no seeding of nursing homes by Democrat Cuomo.

No democrat election interference.

Welcome to the new American Left, sacrificing grandma for an election: the death cult of democrats.

[truth_seeker]

We ate out at our fave restaurant last night for Father's day. Wife, daughter, sister--my gals.

Restaurant working just fine, all the help in masks. A 50 year old chain of Mexican style So-Cal cuisine.

Our gym opened back up a couple of days ago.

Three oour family members' employers have notified them that a former employee had tested positive.