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When the postmortem is done on the media’s coverage of COVID-19 (and it will be), it will be clear that the
virus was no Black Plague — it’s not even the flu on a bad year.

SARS-CoV-2, which causes COVID-19, has killed 56,749 Americans as of Tuesday.

That’s not good. But it’s not as bad as the 2017-2018 flu season, when 80,000 -plus perished. And it’s a long
cry from what all the experts were warning about just a few weeks ago: First, they predicted 1.7 million
Americans dead; then they redid the models (this time apparently entering a few more “facts”) and said
100,000-240,000 dead.

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Now, a major model relied on by the White House Coronavirus Task Force predicts about 70,000 dead by
the end of August.

And for that we shut down the U.S. economy?!

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As the coronavirus swept across China, then Europe — then everywhere — the U.S. media breathlessly
reported every terrifying number, almost gleefully. Their ratings soared, of course, as they scared the hell
out of every American, many of whom have stayed home for the last 40 days, emerging only to buy toilet
paper, but even then clad in masks and tiptoeing in fear.

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But here are some facts:

• Fatality Rate

A recent Stanford University antibody study estimated the fatality rate from the virus is likely 0.1% to 0.2%.
The World Health Organization (WHO) had estimated that the death rate was 20 to 30 times higher and
called for isolation policies. On which version do you think the media focused?

In New York City, the U.S. epicenter of the pandemic, the death rate for people 18 to 45 years old is 0.01%,
or 10 per 100,000 in the population. People aged 75 and older, though, have a death rate 80 times that. For
children under 18, the rate of death is zero per 100,000. That’s zero.

• Health and Age

More than half of the COVID-19 deaths in Europe occurred in long-term care or nursing-home facilities. At
least one-fifth of the deaths recorded in the U.S. so far have occurred there.

Nearly all the patients hospitalized for the coronavirus in New York City had underlying health conditions,
according to a recent study.

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most patients in the country throughout the pandemic — showed that 94 percent of patients had more
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The study found 42% of the patients were overweight and 53% had hypertension, and the others suffered
from a variety of ailments.

• Far More Widespread

Millions and millions of Americans have already been infected with the virus — even though the U.S. media
continues to report the low numbers provided by Johns Hopkins, which says that 998,000 Americans have
contracted the virus as of Tuesday.

An antibody study was conducted last week in New York City and found that 1 in 5 (21.2%) of residents
have already been infected with the coronavirus. There are 8.5 million people in New York City, so that
would mean 1.8 million New Yorkers have had the virus.

At the time of the study, there were 16,249 deaths in the city attributed to COVID-19, which means the
death rate in the city was 0.89% at the time — far lower than reports in the U.S. media.

Results of antibody survey last week in Los Angeles found as many as 442,000 Los Angeles County
residents might have already been infected with the coronavirus by early April, a number far higher than
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low as 0.18% of COVID-19 patients, which means the actual death rate in the city is far lower than reported.
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The Daily Mail reported Monday that “coronavirus may kill 70 times fewer patients than official UK death
figures suggest, studies have shown.” The Mail said a similar fatality rate — 0.19% — was found in a study
of residents in Helsinki, Finland.

A study, this one by Dr. Justin Silverman, estimates that there were 8.7 million coronavirus infections in the
U.S. between March 8 and March 28. And as of April 17, 10% of Americans have been infected — which is
roughly 33 million Americans.

The media has been hyping COVID-19 since Day One, alarming Americans to the point where they
voluntarily went along with shutting down the entire economy — a mistake that will likely reverberate for a
decade or more.

Even as U.S. states begin to re-open — based on the data, which shows a far lower fatality rate than
reported and a much wider spread of the virus — the media continue to report on what they deem
frightening numbers over the deadly virus.

They aren’t, and it isn’t. COVID-19 is a bad flu at worst. And the media should be held accountable for telling
us otherwise before they knew the facts.

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tea42 Leader · 29 Apr

A lot of these facts report by Mr Curl were already reported by Dr. Scott Atlas, the former neuroradiology chief at
Stanford University Medical Center.
The overwhelming majority of people do not have any significant risk of dying from COVID-19 -- about 80% recover.
The median age of people who died was 80. More people died who were over 90 than those who were under 40.
Most did not even know they had the disease.
The greatest priority should be protecting older, at-risk people. The rest need not be isolated at home
Vital population immunity is prevented by total isolation policies, prolonging the problem. The isolation policies are
preventing herd immunity from taking hold.
People are dying because other medical care is not getting done due to hospitals being cleared for COVID-19 patients
who are not appearing.
We have a clearly defined population at risk who can be protected with targeted measures.  
Curl is relying on these facts for his thesis.
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It would seem that SOME PEOPLE are almost intentionally doing things that are ...off in a situation such as this.
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GreenHelmet · 4d tea42
 Actually the stats are off. Many between 21-54 are dying so wake up. It's way higher. Watch!!! You're not paying
attention to FACTS now!!!
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PurpleLobster · 29 Apr

Actually I think the media wanted this to bring down Trump...

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BlueStrawberry · 3d PurpleLobster

The media is Trump's best friend. He used it to get elected.

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NoforDontheCon · 6d PurpleLobster

In every dark cloud (Covid-19) there's always a silver lining (throwing the bum out).
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