tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5783248556332318619.post4475581028370149067..comments2021-11-21T23:41:32.041-05:00Comments on The Pavo News Blog: Let the Virus Run its CourseRon Peacockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06730372275294765601noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5783248556332318619.post-28205899252797238332020-04-18T09:25:47.240-04:002020-04-18T09:25:47.240-04:00We all are familiar with the saying Mark Twain onc...We all are familiar with the saying Mark Twain once popularized, aren’t we? It ends with the word <i>“statistics”</i>.<br /><br />Without a denominator, it is impossible and irresponsible to place a mortality rate on COVID-19. The denominator needed is the actual, total exposed population to the virus. As of 08:24 hrs on 04/17/2020 the number of tested Americans remains at roughly 1%. At the moment, no one on God’s green earth has a clue as to how many people have been exposed. Numbers such as ‘Confirmed Cases’ or ‘Total Recovered’ are less than meaningless in this mathematical determination. <br /><br />There is only one comparative number, at the moment, to past pandemics and that is the number who have died (even that is now being skewed since New York City is “now including people who had never tested positive for the virus but were presumed to have died of it [COVID -19])”. What outstanding medical and scientific ignorant, voodoo!!!!!!<br /><br />And “speculation” by other than “hospital doctors” believe the rate of infection much higher than 2% of the population. “Health officials and epidemiologists <a href="https://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2020/03/24/science.abb3221" rel="nofollow">have estimated </a> there are five to 10 people with undetected infections for every confirmed case in some communities, and at least one estimate suggests there are <a href="https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.01.20050542v1.article-info" rel="nofollow">far more.</a> And as I write, even more possibilities emerge <a href="https://spectator.us/stanford-study-suggests-coronavirus-more-widespread-realized/" rel="nofollow"> ‘Stanford study suggests coronavirus is more widespread than realized’</a><br /><br />Only time will tell the toll of this virus on humanity, and let us hope our present preventive measures are not responsible for death and suffering far worse than this virus could ever wreak worldwide.Ron Peacockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13268583091091310631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5783248556332318619.post-91571516954614695862020-04-17T02:08:31.994-04:002020-04-17T02:08:31.994-04:00What you seem not to consider is of the only 646,0...What you seem not to consider is of the only 646,000 closed cases 124,000 resulted in death. That's a 21% mortality rate. Yes the "vast majority" recovered, but that was with lock down procedured in place. Open it all up, and what is an an acceptable amount of death...21% of the 340 million American population??? We have tested less than 1% of the American population and it is speculated by hospital doctors only 2% of the American population has been exposed. I think as a nurse, you are uninformed and ignorant.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com