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Offline PeteS in CA

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Iran belatedly concedes coronavirus crisis, estimates 25 million in country infected

https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/coronavirus/iran-belatedly-concedes-coronavirus-crisis-estimates-25-million-country

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Saturday belatedly acknowledged the toll coronavirus has taken on his country, reporting 25 million Iranians may have been infected and 14,000 have died.

The staggering number means the estimated COVID-19 cases in Iran are nearly double the rest of the world's infections and represent about 30 percent of Iran's population.

My emphasis. Ummmmmm ........ wow.
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.

Offline The_Reader_David

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Of course if the estimate is based on the antibody studies in the West and includes asymptomatic infections and infections with only minor symptoms that wouldn't have had a Western doctor recommending a COVID test, it would correspond to between 1,250,000 and 5,000,000 infections that would have been reported as "confirmed cases" the way we've been doing things in the US and pretty much every country other with a non-authoritarian government.  At the low end it would put them between India and Brazil, and at the high end, most cases of any country in the world.

Or you can do the correction the other way:  using the antibody studies that suggest between 5 and 20 times as many people have been infected as show up in the "confirmed case" count, the world estimate for total infected now stands between 75 million and 300 million.
« Last Edit: July 22, 2020, 12:12:36 pm by The_Reader_David »
And when they behead your own people in the wars which are to come, then you will know what this was all about.

Offline PeteS in CA

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I truly do not know how to "take" Rouhani's statement. National pride being so enormous in Iran, I really do not see a reason he would knowingly overstate the number. OTOH, I think Iran's healthcare "system" is robust enough to have anything like a handle on how bad the situation is (I believe the same is true of Central America and South America). Both Worldometer and Johns Hopkin have Iran's confirmed cases at ~281.4K. So Rouhani's estimate is almost 100X that number. And if Iran's handle on their situation is as bad as Rouhani's estimate suggests it is, what of the currently reported nearly 15K deaths? Is reality 5X-50X what is "confirmed"?
If, as anti-Covid-vaxxers claim, https://www.poynter.org/fact-checking/2021/robert-f-kennedy-jr-said-the-covid-19-vaccine-is-the-deadliest-vaccine-ever-made-thats-not-true/ , https://gospelnewsnetwork.org/2021/11/23/covid-shots-are-the-deadliest-vaccines-in-medical-history/ , The Vaccine is deadly, where in the US have Pfizer and Moderna hidden the millions of bodies of those who died of "vaccine injury"? Is reality a Big Pharma Shill?

Millions now living should have died. Anti-Covid-Vaxxer ghouls hardest hit.