HOW MANY COVID DEATHS ARE THERE, REALLY?Don't miss this little gem in the article:
It means that if, technically, even if you died of a clear alternate cause but you had COVID at the same time it’s still listed as a COVID death. So, everyone that’s listed as a COVID death doesn’t mean that that was the cause of the death, but they had COVID at the time of death.
The CDC has a huge institutional interest in maximizing the COVID problem, but it admits that the fatality numbers are misleading:
The Centers for Disease Control admits as much in its June 24 update of the data:
“For 7% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned.â€
You read that right: not 97%, 7%.“For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.5 additional conditions or causes per death.â€
Why is this important? Because in all likelihood, the actual Wuhan fatality rate is not much different from a relatively virulent seasonal flu. Every year, the seasonal flu bug kills tens of thousands of Americans. Just two years ago, the CDC says it killed 62,000–and that was without a Medicare spiff or other pressures to build up the numbers. The reality is, I think, that in response to the COVID-19 epidemic, we devastated our economy–which means that we devastated tens or hundreds of millions of lives–needlessly.
