Covid Severity or Lack Thereof
This is a work in progress that has barely begun.
This can be taken on its own or it can be taken along with the other facets of the ccovid-19 boondoggle. For the other subcategories of this covid culture war, see Covid Boondoggle. [←place link there]
Some of this will overlap with my piece Covid Nursing Home Scandal.
The media reports below may or may not be honest/accurate. We certainly do not take their word for it. We will not tell you what is true or false. In this age of almost universal deception, you must learn to fact check and evaluate sources for yourself.
From the beginning up to the time I wrote this (October 27th, 2022), there has been 6,587,579 deaths from covid according to Worldometers. Because deaths that were not from covid have been recorded as if they were, the actual number is actually a lot lower in reality.
There are about 330,000,000 Americans, according to the Census Bureau (as of July 23, 2020). [archive]
According to Dr. Fauci in a C-SPAN report published April 15, 2021, 560,000 Americans have been killed by covid-19 (see 58:57 in this video).
If you do the math, 560,000 Americans = 0.17% of Americans.
This might give some the impression that it is, then, a true fact that something like 0.17% of Americans have died from covid-19. There are other factors that this figure ignores.
I have no delusions that I can account for all of them. But I happen to know one or two.
Early on, the CDC officially announced to medical professionals that they can record deaths of patients as being caused by covid-19 without testing for it. You may have heard of cases in which a person dies from something other than covid-19, but their death is recorded as being caused by covid-19 because they tested positive for the flu (covid). But did you know that they don’t even have to test for it? Did you know that they can just conclude that a death is caused by covid-19 without testing for it in the first place? When the guidelines themselves allow for it, what is to prevent them from lying? [archive]
Let x equal the number of times a death certificate was filled out to indicate that the patient died from covid-19 when they died of other causes and let n equal the number of Americans who have actually died from covid-19.
0.17% - x = n
We have no way of knowing the value of x. How could we ever hope to know how many times a persons’ death has been falsely attributed to covid-19?
But wait! There’s more!
According to the CDC in their chart of “COVID-19 deaths with contributing conditions",
For over 5% of these deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned on the death certificate. For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 4.0 additional conditions or causes per death.
[archive]
I have to wonder if hospitals might have some sort of financial incentive to inflate those numbers. They wouldn’t receive more money from the government (that is, from tax payers) if they inflate the numbers, would they? Nah, they’re not fallible like we. They are not subject to human failings like greed and ambition. They wouldn’t be dishonest for money. They’re doctors and nurses. They are without sin, the new holy and infallible priesthood.
Oh wait.
They are human and they do have a financial incentive to report more cases of covid-19 according to the CDC [archive] and the media [archive].
Let z represent their incentive to inflate the numbers. According to Dr. Malone,1 this inflation is “quite large.” According to Dr. Malone, z would equal “something like” $3,000 per recorded death by covid-19.2
At any rate, we must multiply x by z.
At any rate, we must multiply x by z.
0.17% - xz = n
But we don’t know the numerical value of x or z. So we do not know the numerical value of n. We only know that if those figures from the Census Bureau and Fauci are correct, then less than 0.17% of Americans have died from covid-19, that is, that less than 560,000 Americans have died from it. There may never be a true count.
Even if that figure from Fauci were accurate, far more Americans die from other causes according to the CDC. [archive] If, for example, more Americans die from cancer and if possibly more Americans die from auto-accidents or from smoking or from poor diet leading to deaths from things like heart disease, stroke or diabetes, or even, potentially from the flu or pneumonia, then why haven’t drastic measures, even the blatant violation of people’s rights, been taken for these causes of death?
Here’s the CDC’s figures,
Number of deaths for leading causes of death:
Heart disease: 659,041
Cancer: 599,601
Accidents (unintentional injuries): 173,040
Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 156,979
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 150,005
Alzheimer’s disease: 121,499
Diabetes: 87,647
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 51,565
Influenza and Pneumonia: 49,783
Intentional self-harm (suicide): 47,511
Since I mentioned smoking, let me remind us all that tobacco companies can pay to ensure “the” science “said” that smoking cigarettes was safe just like pharmaceutical companies (like Johnson and Johnson which has been sued many times for their products) can pay to ensure “the” science says their vaccines are safe.
A single death is sad. Thousands of deaths are far more sad.
Let us not, however, fail to maintain proportion and, well, sanity.
Professional liars, politicians, pharmaceutical representatives, lawyers, talking heads in the media, and so on - they all hack away at the Tree of Liberty.
They incited fear and out of fear we handed them the axes they use to plunder lumber from the Tree. We must regain sanity, defend Liberty. We must wrest the axes from their greedy grip and never let them attack the Tree of Liberty again.
CHRONOLOGY & COMMENTARY
January 14, 2020
January 29, 2020
On this date “Early Transmission Dynamics in Wuhan, China, of Novel Coronavirus–Infected Pneumonia” by multiple authors was published by The New England Journal of Medicine
In this study, they write,
We analyzed data on the first 425 confirmed cases in Wuhan
. . .and that of these 425 cases,
there were no cases in children below 15 years of age.
February 14, 2020
“Substantial undocumented infection facilitates the rapid dissemination of novel coronavirus (COVID-19)” by MedRxIV
This study states,
We estimate 86% of all infections were undocumented (95% CI: [82%-90%]) prior to the Wuhan travel shutdown (January 23, 2020)
February 16-24, 2020
“Report of the WHO-China Joint Mission on Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)” by The WHO
This report states,
As of 20 February, 2114 of the 55,924 laboratory confirmed cases have died (crude fatality ratio [CFR2 ] 3.8%) (note: at least some of whom were identified using a case definition that included pulmonary disease). The overall CFR varies by location and intensity of transmission (i.e. 5.8% in Wuhan vs. 0.7% in other areas in China).
Notice how much higher the crude fatality ratio is for Wuhan than for other areas of China. Imagine how much lower that nuber would be in, for example, the USA.
February 28, 2020
In “Covid-19 — Navigating the Uncharted” published by The New England Journal of Medicine, the authors, who include Dr. Anthony Fauci, cite the study we saw above, “Early Transmission Dynamics in Wuhan, China, of Novel Coronavirus–Infected Pneumonia” from January 29, 2020 which states that the virus was no serious concern for children. In this paper, Fauci and co-authors wrote,
Of note, there were no cases in children younger than 15 years of age.
This was, of course, relatively early in covid-19’s spread. As I write this, November 13, 2022, Worldometer has an updated chart called Age of Coronavirus Deaths. Above their chart they clearly state,
below we show the data provided by New York City Health as of May 13, 2020:
However, one might make the mistake of thinking that the stats in the chart pertain to the entire USA or even the world when this data, in fact, pertains only to people treated in medical facilities in New York City. They even break it down by the 5 burroughs of NY City. At any rate, according to their data, however accurate it may or may not be, as of May 12, 2022 at 6:00pm, there have been 3 deaths in those 17 years of age or younger who had covid-19 and did not have underlying conditions and there have been 6 deaths in those 17 or younger who had conditions such as,
Diabetes, Lung Disease, Cancer, Immunodeficiency, Heart Disease, Hypertension, Asthma, Kidney Disease, GI/Liver Disease, and Obesity.
If we combine the number of deaths they say occured in those 0-17 with covid-19 and the number of deaths they say occured in those 0-17 who had serious conditions and covid-19, we have 9 such deaths. This would be 0.06% of all deaths of all people who died in medical facilities in NY City who, they say, had covid-19 when they died, though they could have died from other underlying conditions that many of them had according to their data.
If this data were accurate - and I am not claiming it is - we could reasonably expect that in general, among all people who had covid-19 and died from covid or from other conditions or some combination, 0.06% of these people who died were under 18 years of age.
By the way, about half (48.7%) of all deaths would be in those who are 75 years or older if this data were accurate, apparently with the vast majority of these deaths being with underlying conditions.
On the same page at Worldometers, as I write this, it is stated in the section for “COVID-19 Fatality Rate by AGE” that there have been no deaths among children 9 or younger. Here they also state that for those 10 to 19 years of age infected with COVID-19, the risk of dying is 0.2%. Worldometers provides no direct source for these figures, however, nor do they state if the figures pertain to the USA or to the world, etc.
March 3, 2020
“WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 - 3 March 2020” by The WHO
There is now a total of 90,893 reported cases of COVID-19 globally, and 3110 deaths.
In the past 24 hours, China reported 129 cases, the lowest number of cases since the 20th of January.
Outside China, 1848 cases were reported in 48 countries. 80% of those cases are from just three countries: the Republic of Korea, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Italy.
12 new countries have reported their first cases, and there are now 21 countries with one case.
122 countries have not reported any cases.
The actions these newly-affected countries take today will be the difference between a handful of cases and a larger cluster. . .
Both COVID-19 and influenza cause respiratory disease and spread the same way, via small droplets of fluid from the nose and mouth of someone who is sick.
However, there are some important differences between COVID-19 and influenza.
First, COVID-19 does not transmit as efficiently as influenza, from the data we have so far.
With influenza, people who are infected but not yet sick are major drivers of transmission, which does not appear to be the case for COVID-19.
Evidence from China is that only 1% of reported cases do not have symptoms, and most of those cases develop symptoms within 2 days. . .
COVID-19 causes more severe disease than seasonal influenza. . .
Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected. . .
Note that the 3.4% fatality rate given here by The WHO is not even close to being consistent with the other dta we have seen so far. For more criticism of these numbers, under March 17, 2020 below, see “EXCLUSIVE: Evidence Shows Director General of World Health Organization Severely Overstated the Fatality Rate of the Coronavirus Leading to the Greatest Global Panic in History” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit and, under March 18, 2020, see “WHO Needs to Be Held Responsible! US Coronavirus Numbers Including Asymtomatic Patients Shows Mortality Rate 0.2% to 0.8% and Not 3.4% as Reported by WHO” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit.
In “Initial Coronavirus Mortality Rate for Children and Teens Is LOWER than Mortality Rate for Same Age Group in the 2018-2019 Flu Season” published by the Gateway Pundit, Jim Hoft writes,
The 2018-2019 flu epidemic hit children much harder than the numbers we are seeing from the coronavirus.
The mortality rate for children under 17 was .6% to .8%.
These numbers are greater than the initial mortality rates for children inflicted by coronavirus.
They cite the CDC report “Estimated Flu-Related Illnesses, Medical visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths in the United States — 2018–2019 Flu Season”. However, according to one chart in this CDC source, the mortality rate was 1.1 % for those 0-4 old and 0.3% for those 5-17 years old. That adds up to 1.4% for all those 0-17 years old. According to 2 other charts in the same CDC source, it was 0.8% for 0-4 year olds and 0.6% for 5-17 year olds which adds up to 1.2%. Therefore I do not know why Hoft reported 0.6% to 0.8% for those under 17 years of age.
A rate of 0.6%-1.4% for kids 0-17 years old with the flu is considerably higher than a rate of 0.06% for kids 0-17 years old with covid-19.
Notice that the flu does not usually cause school lockdowns, business shutdowns, mask mandates, vaccine mandates and so on.
As we will see, there’s reason to doubt the numbers reported by medical facilities since they have a profit motive to inflate those numbers.
Let’s get back to the study published by The New England Journal of Medicine, February 28, 2020, “Covid-19 — Navigating the Uncharted” by Dr. Fauci and his 2 co-authors. They state that covid-19 has a death rate that is well below 1% and is more like a severe flu with a
fatality rate of approximately 0.1%
...rather than something more deadly like what we saw with SARS. To give the quote more context,
If one assumes that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases, the case fatality rate may be considerably less than 1%. This suggests that the overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza (which has a case fatality rate of approximately 0.1%) or a pandemic influenza (similar to those in 1957 and 1968) rather than a disease similar to SARS or MERS, which have had case fatality rates of 9 to 10% and 36%, respectively.
March 5, 2020
The assistant secretary of health at the HHS (Health and Human Services) says that the mortality rate for the seasonal flu is between 0.1% and 1.5%
[archive of the above tweet here]
March 9, 2020, 2:47pm, White House
Trump tweeted,
So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!
“Coronavirus Codswallop -- By the Numbers” by Brian C. Joondeph for American Thinker
Despite the hair-on-fire reporting of coronavirus news, let's look at some actual numbers, rather than the codswallop from CNN or MSNBC. Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control and the Johns Hopkins Coronavirus Dashboard are illustrative.
At the time of this writing, there are 107,352 cases worldwide, 3,646 deaths, and 60,558 recoveries. Fifteen of those deaths occurred in the U.S. The odds of recovering are far higher than the odds of dying. . .
Anthony Fauci, M.D., of the National Institutes of Health and a member of the Trump administration's task force, gave some perspective in a New England Journal of Medicine editorial:
The median age of the patients was 59 years, with higher morbidity and mortality among the elderly and among those with coexisting conditions (similar to the situation with influenza).
The overall clinical consequences of Covid-19 may ultimately be more akin to those of a severe seasonal influenza.
In other words, the coronavirus may be a nastier version of the seasonal flu, potentially fatal for the elderly and infirm. How many Americans die from the flu each day? Let's ask the CDC.
Influenza and pneumonia caused 55,672 deaths in the U.S. in 2017, or 153 persons per day. As a reminder, only 15 have died from the coronavirus to date, the number dying in any four-hour period from the flu.
Over the past decade, influenza has affected between 9.3 and 45 million persons each year, depending on the flu severity. Hospitalizations for the flu have ranged from 140,000 to 800,000 persons per year, and deaths varied between 12,000 and 61,000 each year.
These numbers, in America only, far eclipse the number of coronavirus fatalities worldwide, about 3,600 thus far. This could and will likely change, but are the numbers worthy of the hair-on-fire reaction from cable news anchors and Democrat politicians?
Remember the coronavirus mortality rate of 3.4% pushed by the World Health Organization, the global Deep State's health mouthpiece? President Trump said that number was too high and was excoriated by the liberal media, eagerly willing to trade a bunch of dead Americans for a Trump defeat in November.
It turns out the president was correct. Health and Human Services assistant secretary Admiral Brett Giroir declared, "The best estimates now of the overall mortality rate for COVID-19 is somewhere between 0.1% and 1%."
For comparison, the fatality rate for the seasonal flu is 0.1%. The coronavirus fatality rate is likely similar to the 0.1–1% figure based on confirmed cases. How many individuals have a normal cold, when in reality they have the coronavirus, and recover after a week? That would mean that far more are infected but are unreported, as their infection is a nonevent, making the fatality rate lower than reported.
Look also at past viral illnesses, far more lethal than the coronavirus. The fatality rate for MERS and SARS was 34.4 and 9.5% respectively. Neither illness generated as much media hysteria as coronavirus.
Swine flu, also known as H1N1, happened on Obama's watch. With over 60 million cases in the U.S., and over 12,000 deaths, where was the vitriol hurled at Obama, compared to what we are seeing directed toward Trump?
Another number ignored by the media is the number of cases of coronavirus per capita. The U.S. rate is obviously far lower than China, South Korea, and Japan, but also lower than Italy, France, Germany, and Spain.
President Trump's decisive actions, again contrary to media reporting, are responsible for keeping U.S. numbers down due to his travel ban.
For additional perspective, heart disease kills 1,774 persons a day, cancer 1,641, accidents 466, and strokes 401 per day. A recent tornado in Tennessee claimed 24 lives, almost twice the number of Americans who died from the coronavirus thus far.
Some other numbers offer perspective. Americans die each year from unusual causes. One hundred sixty die each year from autoerotic asphyxiation, 67 are victims of serial killers, 986 are killed by police, 75 from lawnmowers, 31 struck by lightning, and one American dies each year being trampled on Black Friday.
I haven't heard any media angst over lawnmowers or auto-erotica. Medical errors are also far more dangerous than any viral epidemic. From 250,000 to 400,000 Americans die each year from medical errors, the third most common cause of death in the U.S. What would happen if Bernie Sanders got his wish and government were in charge of all of health care?
Numbers are inconvenient to the media — particularly the math-challenged like MSNBC's Brian Williams and NY Times editor Mara Gay discussing Bloomberg's campaign spending, being off by a factor of a million. How can we trust these people reporting on coronavirus numbers?
President Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." If you watch the evening news or read the daily newspaper, you will be inundated with fear. Take the constant barrage of coronavirus codswallop with a grain of salt, and keep things in perspective.
Brian C Joondeph, M.D. is a Denver-based physician and freelance writer whose pieces have appeared in American Thinker, Daily Caller, Rasmussen Reports, and other publications.
March 9, 2020, 8:58pm
11:29pm
Adam Milstein tweeted,
Death numbers from CoronaVirus in America are incredibly misleading. Out of US 26 fatal cases, 23 were in King County, Washington (88.5%). Out 162 Washington state people infected, 116 are in King county (72%). Most of them in Life Care Center of Kirkland https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/coronavirus-number-confirmed-cases-more-than-100-virus-moves-more-counties/XIDPHMLVOJAAREQ5YCL75367PU/ …
March 10, 2020
In a now deleted tweet, Adam Milstein (@AdamMilstein) tweeted,
Death numbers from CoronaVirus in America are incredibly misleading. Out of US 26 fatal cases, 23 were in King County, Washington (88.5%). Out 162 Washington state people infected, 116 are in King county (72%). Most of them in Life Care Center of Kirkland https://t.co/icIGSIBrsu pic.twitter.com/bsR4TpDXO6
“Coronavirus By the Numbers – 83% of Affected Countries Have Mortality Rates of Infected Persons Less than 1%” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
This article cites Worldometer, Healthline, Global News and Live Science.
March 11, 2020
Meanwhile, in spite of the data regarding the flu and the data regarding covid-19, Dr. Fauci said this. . .
Is it possible that he actually believed what he said? Is he really that incompetant? Or was he just lying?
March 13, 2020
“How many will die of coronavirus in the UK? A closer look at the numbers” by The Guardian
This article states,
At present, one thing that does seem clear is that the vast majority of people who get the disease will survive.
That is accurate enough. However, they also state,
The World Health Organization (WHO) has estimated the mortality rate from Covid-19 is about 3.4%. That is higher than seasonal flu and is cause for concern – but even if it is correct, more than 96% of people who become infected with the coronavirus will recover.
But then they state that,
the WHO estimate is based on confirmed infections and deaths, meaning it does not take into account mild cases that may not be diagnosed – cases that would lower the mortality rate.
Indeed experts say that, in reality, the mortality rate is likely to be nearer to 1% or less. In other words, more than 99% of those who become infected are expected to survive.
And not everyone will become infected.
Let us recall that the WHO estimated a 0.7% rate for areas of China other than Wuhan.
“CONFIRMED: 222,000 Positively Tested for Flu and 22,000 Flu Deaths in US this Season … AND– 1,864 COVID-19 Cases and 41 Deaths in US This Season” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
In this piece, citing the CDC and Worldometer, Jim Hoft writes,
There have been 41 deaths blamed on the coronavirus in the US.
There have been 1,864 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the US.
At least 23 of those deaths were at the Life Care Center in Kirkland, Washington.
The Life Care Center has gone from 120 residents down to 60 in the past month.The current mortality rate in the US is 2.2%.
If you subtract the Life Center deaths the total goes down to .9%.The US economy plunged 8,351 points this month over the coronavirus news and 41 confirmed deaths.
At the same time there have been 222,000 confirmed flu cases from testing in the US this season.
The CDC estimated 37 million total flu cases this season.
And there have been 22,000 flu deaths this flu season.There were 144 children who died from the flu this season.
This chart comes from the CDC.
It shows weekly flu numbers and seasonal flu numbers.So far this flu season there have been over 1 million flu tests given.
There have been 222,552 confirmed flu cases.
There have been 22,000 flu deaths this season.And yet the stock market crashed over 41 coronavirus deaths?
What is going on?
I would like to point out that the CDC report also stated,
The percentage of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza is 7.1%, below the epidemic threshold of 7.3%.
March 14, 2020
“BY THE NUMBERS, Via the CDC: 2019 Flu – 22,000 Dead and 36 Million Infected …2019 Coronavirus – 50 Dead and 2,340 Infected” by The Gateway Pundit
“Visualizing the History of Pandemics” by Visual Capitalist
Lower down, they state,
Tracking Infectiousness
Scientists use a basic measure to track the infectiousness of a disease called the reproduction number — also known as R0 or “R naught.” This number tells us how many susceptible people, on average, each sick person will in turn infect.
Measles tops the list, being the most contagious with a R0 range of 12-18. This means a single person can infect, on average, 12 to 18 people in an unvaccinated population.
While measles may be the most virulent, vaccination efforts and herd immunity can curb its spread. The more people are immune to a disease, the less likely it is to proliferate, making vaccinations critical to prevent the resurgence of known and treatable diseases.
It’s hard to calculate and forecast the true impact of COVID-19, as the outbreak is still ongoing and researchers are still learning about this new form of coronavirus.
This would be updated on October 19, 2022 to include,
October 19, 2022 Update: Due to popular request, we’ve also visualized how the death tolls of each pandemic stack up as a share of total estimated global populations at the time.
March 16, 2020
“Substantial undocumented infection facilitates the rapid dissemination of novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV2)” by Science magazine
This is a study funded by the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and, according to Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, their own scientists conducted the study.
The abstract of this study reads,
Estimation of the prevalence and contagiousness of undocumented novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV2) infections is critical for understanding the overall prevalence and pandemic potential of this disease. Here we use observations of reported infection within China, in conjunction with mobility data, a networked dynamic metapopulation model and Bayesian inference, to infer critical epidemiological characteristics associated with SARS-CoV2, including the fraction of undocumented infections and their contagiousness. We estimate 86% of all infections were undocumented (95% CI: [82%–90%]) prior to 23 January 2020 travel restrictions. Per person, the transmission rate of undocumented infections was 55% of documented infections ([46%–62%]), yet, due to their greater numbers, undocumented infections were the infection source for 79% of documented cases. These findings explain the rapid geographic spread of SARS-CoV2 and indicate containment of this virus will be particularly challenging.
In case your eyes glazed over by all that, note that they estimated that 86% of all people who had been infected were undocumented. This would suggest that the virus is not very virulent. The study also states,
We also modeled the transmission of COVID-19 in China after 23 January, when greater control measures were effected. These control measures included travel restrictions imposed between major cities and Wuhan; self-quarantine and contact precautions advocated by the government; and more available rapid testing for infection confirmation (11, 12). These measures along with changes in medical care-seeking behavior due to increased awareness of the virus and increased personal protective behavior (e.g., wearing of facemasks, social distancing, self-isolation when sick), likely altered the epidemiological characteristics of the outbreak after 23 January. To quantify these differences
They then describe in daunting detail how they quantified those differences. Notice that they suggest self-quarentining, lockdowns or “contact precautions advocated by the government", social distancing and facemasks but that they do not make the crucial distinction between facemasks that would be effective and those that would be ineffective. At any rate, they also suggest that travel restrictions to and from Wuhan be implimented, something that some in politics and media would say is racist.
“'Stealth Transmission' Fuels Fast Spread of Coronavirus Outbreak” by Columbia University
This discusses their study that was published by Science magazine on this same date (see above).
“BREAKING EXCLUSIVE: The Coronavirus Fatality Rate Reported by the Media Is COMPLETELY INACCURATE. The Actual Rate Is TYPICAL OF THE FLU – MEDIA LYING AGAIN!” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
This report cites the CDC and the WHO, The Guardian and Worldometer.
“Coronavirus: Infected people without symptoms are driving epidemic’s fast spread, says new study” by The Mercury News
This article references the sudy by Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health that was published by Science magazine on this same date (see above). They state,
People with mild or no symptoms of COVID-19 are the main drivers behind the spread of the coronavirus epidemic, according to an important new analysis of China’s outbreak released on Monday.
These so-called “stealth” transmissions underscore the importance of “social distancing” measures that are now being enacted in communities across the U.S. and Europe, the researchers said. Unrecognized infections can expose a far greater portion of the population to virus than would otherwise occur.
“We need to keep people apart,” said researcher Jeffrey Shaman of Columbia University Mailman School, who co-authored the study with colleague Sen Pei.
The research is published in Monday’s issue of the journal Science, the same day 6 Bay Area counties announced strict new orders telling most of the region’s 7 million residents to stay home except for essential trips such as to the supermarket. . .
His team developed a mathematical model that simulated the dynamics of infection among 375 Chinese cities to estimate the contagiousness and proportion of undocumented infections during the weeks before and after the shutdown of travel in and out of Wuhan.
If applied to the U.S. population, this means that we have far more than the 1,629 infections currently reported by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control. The real number would be closer to 13,000.
March 17, 2020
“86% of people with coronavirus are walking around undetected, study says” by The New York Post
This piece references the sudy by Columbia University that was published by Science magazine on March 16, 2020 (see above) and adds,
COVID-19 has spread across the world to 182,400 people, causing at least 7,100 deaths, according to a tally from Johns Hopkins University.
They do not, however, provide a referenc for this.
“TRAGIC. 30 of 109 US Coronavirus Deaths Are Associated with the Same Senior Center in Kirkland, Washington” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
This article cites Worldometer, “Public Health - Seattle & King County COVID-19 update for March 17, 2020” on the Public Health news and blog by King County’s .gov website and Worldometer. It states,
The number of cases of coronavirus jumped significantly in the United States on Tuesday.
As testing becomes more accessible across the country it was expected that the number of cases would increase.
On Tuesday there has been 1,806 new cases of coronavirus reported.
23 new deaths were reported in the US due to the coronavirus.US Coronavirus Totals.
** 6,469 total confirmed cases
** 109 total coronavirus deaths.
** Three new deaths in Washington state.
** 30 of the 109 US deaths were associated with the Senior Life Center in Kirkland.
** The Senior Life Center went from 120 to 60 patients over the past month.** The US mortality rate went from 3% last week to 1.9% on Sunday to 1.6% on Tuesday.
** Minus the Senior Life Center numbers the US mortality rate is at 1.2%.
How tragic.
“EXCLUSIVE: Evidence Shows Director General of World Health Organization Severely Overstated the Fatality Rate of the Coronavirus Leading to the Greatest Global Panic in History” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
This piece, which cites The Guardian, “Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report” by The CDC and the report we saw from The WHO on March 3, 2020 states,
The controversial Ethiopian politician and Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, claimed in a press conference in early March that the fatality rate for the coronavirus was many multiples that of the fatality rate of the common flu.
This egregiously false premise has led to the greatest panic in world history.
The Director General of the WHO spoke on March 3, 2020 and shared this related to the coronavirus:
While many people globally have built up immunity to seasonal flu strains, COVID-19 is a new virus to which no one has immunity. That means more people are susceptible to infection, and some will suffer severe disease.
Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected.
This statement led to the greatest panic in world history as the media all over the world shared and repeated that the coronavirus was many, many times more deadly than the common flu.
The problem is his statement is false. It was not accurate!
The Gateway Pundit reported yesterday, that the coronavirus fatality rate reported by the media was completely inaccurate and the actual rate is less than the current seasonal flu – the media was lying again. The false reporting of the coronavirus fatality rate of 3.4% in the media started with the statements made by the WHO in early March.
Here’s a summary of the analysis from yesterday proving the Director General’s statement was very misleading and materially false:
N/A – not available. . .
. . .The same rate for this year’s seasonal flu is 10% if you use known cases and known deaths (but the media tells you it’s .1%).
As The Gateway Pundit reported earlier, according to CDC numbers, in the US in the 2019-2020 flu season, there were 222,552 confirmed cases of the flu from testing and an estimated 36 million flu cases in the United States. There were 22,000 estimated deaths from the flu (via the CDC).
Note that the number of deaths and confirmed cases (through testing) of the flu in the US are based on actual data. The number of individuals who contracted the flu is an estimate. There is no way to know who had the flu in the US because many cases are not severe and people do not have a test done to confirm they had the flu. They believe their symptoms are minor and go on with their normal lives thinking they had a cold or something similar. Because of this, the CDC estimates and they estimated 36 million people had the flu in this past flu season.
The rate of the number of individuals who died from the flu to the number of individuals who were estimated to have had the flu is .1% (22,552 / 36 million). This is an estimate and the amount used above by the Director General of the WHO.
However, the rate of individuals who died from the flu to the number of individuals who were confirmed to have had the flu is around 10% (22,000/ 222,552). This is based on actual data similar to the rate for the coronavirus above. . .
. . .Actual results for the coronavirus are lower than the flu.
Based on the above numbers, the actual fatality rate for those who were confirmed to have had the coronavirus is 3.4%.
The actual mortality rates for those who were confirmed to have had the flu are around 10%.The actual data shows that the mortality rate for those who had the flu (10%) is almost twice as high than for those with the coronavirus (3.8%). . .
. . .Current estimates between the flu and the coronavirus are not comparing ‘apples to apples’.
The fatality rate that is commonly referred to in the media for the coronavirus is 3.4% from the WHO. This number is based on confirmed cases of people with the coronavirus.
The flu fatality rate provided by the CDC of .1% includes an estimate of individuals who had the flu (36,000,000). This rate includes an estimate of all people with the flu, most who were not tested for the flu.
The fatality rate for the coronavirus does not include those who had the coronavirus but were not confirmed. This is why the flu fatality rate is .1% and the coronavirus fatality rate is 3.4%!
The two rates are like comparing apples to oranges. By doing so the coronavirus fatality rate is way overstated when compared to the flu and the WHO and the media has created a worldwide crisis and panic by reporting these rates simultaneously!
The coronavirus is not more fatal than the flu based on current data available. It is much less fatal than the flu based on current data. . .
In summary, President Trump was right when he said the WHO’s coronavirus fatality rate was much too high.
Evidence proves the coronavirus is not as deadly as what was reported by the WHO and is continually repeated in the media.
In fact, current data shows it is not as deadly as the flu. The elderly and the sick should be concerned and protected. Everyone else has little to worry about.
Again, don’t believe what the media is telling you. They are lying again.
“Global Coronavirus Daily Deaths on Its Worst Day Is Still Less Than: Flu, Swine Flu, Malaria, AIDS, Pneumonia, Hepatitis, Tuberculosis” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
As of Tuesday morning 3-17:
** There have been 4,748 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the US
** There have been 93 deaths due to coronavirus in the USFrom our report on Monday —
The current estimate for the fatality rates for the coronavirus just don’t add up. The estimates based on current data are completely inaccurate. Current data shows that this virus is much less deadly that even the common flu from the 2019-2020 season.
Details below:
N/A – not available. . .
WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus announced on March 3rd: About 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected.
This inaccurate statement by the WHO director started the global panic.
The Daily Death Toll of Coronavirus–
The global number of deaths of coronavirus continues to escalate.
There were globally 686 coronavirus deaths recorded on Sunday.
There were globally 641 coronavirus deaths recorded on Monday.The total deaths globally is 7,510 deaths.
So how do these numbers compare to other deadly diseases?
Here is a graph of the Average Disease Deaths per Day worldwide.
You can see from the chart above that SO FAR the worst number of daily coronavirus deaths (686) is still lower than: Flu, Swine Flu, Malaria, AIDS, Pneumonia, Hepatitis, Tuberculosis
President Trump was right when he said the WHO’s coronavirus fatality rate was much too high.
Evidence proves the coronavirus is not as deadly as what was reported by the WHO and is continually repeated in the media.
In fact, current data shows it is not as deadly as the flu. The elderly and the sick should be concerned and protected. Everyone else has little to worry about.
“MUST SEE… Historic Pandemics in Perspective: Coronavirus Is a Blip on the Timeline” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
As of Tuesday evening 3-17:
** There have been 6,194 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the US
** There have been 102 deaths due to coronavirus in the US
They then cite some of their report from March 16 in which they cite the CDC and the WHO, The Guardian and Worldometer and their report from earlier that day on March 17 which cites The Guardian, “Weekly U.S. Influenza Surveillance Report” by The CDC, the report we saw from The WHO on March 3, 2020 and the “Visualizing the History of Pandemics” by Visual Capitalist from March 14 we saw above.
March 18, 2020
“WHO Needs to Be Held Responsible! US Coronavirus Numbers Including Asymtomatic Patients Shows Mortality Rate 0.2% to 0.8% and Not 3.4% as Reported by WHO” by The Gateway Pundit
Citing a study by Science magazine from March 16, 2020, they state,
We also know that according to a new study by the journal Science — 6 of 7 coronavirus victims, or 86% of infections, were undocumented.
Using that model — if health workers are missing half of the coronavirus cases in the US – then the US coronavirus mortality rate goes down to 0.8%.
If health workers are missing 6 of 7 coronavirus cases, as the study suggests, then the US coronavirus mortality rate goes down to 0.2% — a similar number to the seasonal flu.
If latest study published in the Science journal is correct then the coronavirus scare will be the greatest hoax in world history causing trillions and trillions of dollars in economic damage.
The WHO and Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus need to be held responsible!
March 19, 2020
“Gov. Newsom Orders California Lockdown After 18 Coronavirus Deaths : All But Essential Workers Told to Stay Home Due to Coronavirus” by Kristinn Taylor for The Gateway Pundit
March 20, 2020
“Mortality Rate of Coronavirus in US Slips to 1.25% in KNOWN CASES – Far Below Fraudulent Number by WHO — Looks Like HUGE MISCALCULATION!” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
“STUNNING!… Via the CDC… As of Friday There Are 100 TIMES AS MANY Flu Deaths in US this Season than Coronavirus Deaths” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
“STUDY: 99% Of Patients Killed By Coronavirus In Italy Had Existing Illnesses” by Eric A. Blair for The Gateway Pundit
May 21, 2020
“EXCLUSIVE: The China Coronavirus Is No Spanish Flu – Worldwide It’s Not Yet as Deadly as a Seasonal Flu” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
March 22, 2022
“Video of Dr. Fauci in 2009 is Unearthed – Shows a Calm and Unalarmed NIH Chief During H1N1 Epidemic that Killed Over 12 Thousand Americans” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
March 23, 2020
President Trump held a Coronavirus Task Force briefing.
“3/23/20: Members of the Coronavirus Task Force Hold a Press Briefing” by Trump White House Archived
At 1:13:22, President Trump says,
And I think the big factor is the mortality rate, we're talking about about the mortality rate. When we first started, people were thinking about three and 4% and now we're talking about a much lower number than that.
At 1:13:37, Dr. Birx says,
The mortality rate is driven almost exclusively as we have talked about by people with pre-existing conditions and older.
When asked for a number estimate for the mortality rate, Dr. Birx states, at 1:14:25,
Well, you know what the estimate in Wuhan was originally, it was over 3%. When they look outside of Wuhan, it was about 0.7%. It depends very much. In South Korea, it was about 0.7-0.8%. But I don't want, that's like a tyranny of averages and I, you know, that's not having, that's probably missing 50-60% of the data because no one was testing asymptomatics. Remember?
“94% of All NYC Coronavirus Patients Have Underlying Health Problems; 3,505 Nursing Home Residents Die from China Coronavirus in New York State” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
March 24, 2020
“Dr. Birx on Coronavirus Crisis: No One Imagined This Scenario of Respiratory Disease and Seasonal Flu at Same Time” by The Gateway Pundit
“WE WERE RIGHT! Dr. Birx Confirms WHO Was WAY OFF in Their 3.4% Mortality Rate and It Will Likely Drop Under 1% As TGP Predicted” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
“The Experts Lied: Children in England Under 15 Are 4 Times More Likely to be Struck by Lightning than Die of COVID-19” by The Gateway Pundit
March 26, 2020
“HUGE! Author of Ridiculous Imperial College Coronavirus Study Backtracks – Says UK can Now Expect Under 20,000 Deaths Not Half a Million and LESS THAN ANNUAL FLU DEATHS!” by The Gateway Pundit
“WOW! Dr. Fauci in New England Journal of Medicine Concedes the Coronavirus Mortality Rate May Be Much Closer to a Very Bad Flu” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
“The Total Number of Coronavirus Deaths to Date in the World Still Less Than Total Number of Flu Deaths in the US This Flu Season” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
March 27, 2020
“Laura Ingraham Is First Mainstream Reporter to Discuss Faulty WHO Coronavirus Mortality Rate that Led to Global Panic (VIDEO)” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
March 30, 2020
“SHOCK REPORT: EU Total Deaths Per Week for All 24 Reporting Countries Combined is LOWER than the Normal Weekly Rate in EVERY Age Group” by The Gateway Pundit
“IT’S IN THE DATA: The Common Flu Had 12 Times More Hospitalizations than COVID-19 Yet No Media Hysteria” by The Gateway Pundit
March 31, 2020
“Sweden Decides to Let Coronavirus to Run Its Course in Country Without Destroying Its Economy or Future” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
April 1, 2020
“Perspective: There were 83,780 Flu-Pneumonia Deaths in US this Season — So far Only 4,059 Coronavirus Deaths in US this Year” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
“What is coronavirus – and what is the mortality rate?” by The Guardian
In this piece, it is written,
What is the mortality rate of the new coronavirus?
It is probably about or a bit less than 1%. Much higher figures have been flying about, but the UK’s chief medical officer, Chris Whitty, is one of those who believes it will prove to be 1% or lower. The World Health Organization’s director general, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, talked of 3.4%, but his figure was calculated by dividing the number of deaths by the number of officially confirmed cases. We know there are many more mild cases that do not get to hospital and are not being counted, which would bring the mortality rate significantly down.
Deaths are highest in the elderly, with very low rates among younger people, although medical staff who treat patients and get exposed to a lot of virus are thought to be more at risk. But even among the over-80s, 90% will recover.
April 2, 2020
“BREAKING: New York Data Confirms Once Again – 99% of Coronavirus Fatalities Have Pre-Existing Conditions – 94% of Fatalities Over Age 45! …Open The Economy!” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
“BROKEN MODELS: The CDC Doctors Screwed Up Bigly! USNS Comfort in NY Harbor Sits Idle with 3 Patients — USNS Mercy in LA has Only 15 Patients” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
April 4, 2020
“Bill Gates-Funded IHME Coronavirus Model Wrong Again – 12,000 ICU Beds Projected For New York Today, Only 4,100 Used” by The Gateway Pundit
“According to CDC: 0.2% to 1.8% of All US Deaths Since February are Confirmed or Presumed to be Due to COVID-19 — And They Want to Destroy Economy Over This?” by The Gateway Pundit
“HUGE! From CDC Website: Hospitals to List COVID-19 as Cause of Death Even if It’s “Assumed to Have Caused Or Contributed to Death” – Lab Tests Not Required” by The Gateway Pundit
April 5, 2020
“Coronavirus Model Used to Crash US Economy MASSIVELY OVERSTATED Hospitalizations in 40 States” by Cristina Laila for The Gateway Pundit
April 6, 2020
“HUGE! Official IHME Model for Coronavirus Used by CDC Just Cut Their Numbers by Half!… They’re Making It Up As they Go Along!” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
“Estimated IHME US Coronavirus Deaths Now at 81,766 or the Same Numbers as the 2017 Flu Season” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
April 7, 2020
“UPDATE: Dr. Birx Confirms Anyone Who Dies WITH Coronavirus, Regardless of Any Underlying Health Condition, is Being Counted as a COVID-19 Death (VIDEO)” by Cristina Laila for The Gateway Pundit
April 8, 2020
“Dr. Birx Lied – COVID-19 Models Baked in Effects of Social Distancing and STILL Were Off by MILLIONS” by The Gateway Pundit
“The Completely Fraudulent COVID-19 Fatality Timeline: From 40 Million… to 2 Million… to 200,000… to 81,766… to 60,415 Deaths” by The Gateway Pundit
April 9, 2020
“Preliminary German Study Shows a COVID-19 Infection Fatality Rate of About 0.4 Percent” by Ronald Baily for Reason
April 10, 2020
“WTH? Massachusetts Is Going Back and Adding Coronavirus Deaths to Totals – Is this to Get More Cash?” by The Gateway Pundit
“California Got Played: IHME Hack Ali Mokdad Says California Is Over the Coronavirus Hump – They Shut Down the State of 39.5 Million for 584 Deaths!” by The Gateway Pundit
April 11, 2020
“FROM THE NUMBERS: To Date Only 446 People Under Age 20 Have Contracted Coronavirus in Massachusetts and ZERO Deaths Under 40 But Schools Still Closed” by The Gateway Pundit
April 12, 2020
”The WHO Lied and Created a Global Panic: Second Extensive Study Finds Coronavirus Mortality Rate Is 0.4% Not 3.4% — Similar to Seasonal Flu” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
April 13, 2020
“BIG NEWS: New Study Finds 28 Million Americans Likely Infected by Coronavirus — Puts US Mortality Rate at 0.1% Just Like the Seasonal Flu” by The Gateway Pundit
April 14, 2020
“UPDATE: Garbage Researchers at IHME Still Pushing Faulty Models — Overestimated California by Factor of 10 — Still Used by Fauci and Birx” by The Gateway Pundit
“Zero New Coronavirus Cases In New York, NBC News Says” by Eric A. Blair for The Gateway Pundit
“New York Adds “Presumed” Coronavirus Cases to Its Death Toll – 3,700 New Deaths Added Today in Revised Count” by Cristina Laila for The Gateway Pundit
April 16, 2021
“Doing the Math” by Justin Trouble
April 17, 2020
“THEY’RE PADDING THE NUMBERS: Michigan Begins Dumping Extra “Presumed Cases” to their Coronavirus Death Totals Like New York Did” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
“Antibody Testing Reveals Coronavirus 50-85 Times More Widespread Than Previously Known and Thus Far Less Dangerous Than Expected” by Cristina Laila for The Gateway Pundit
“Antibody research indicates coronavirus may be far more widespread than known” by ABC News
The first large-scale community test of 3,300 people in Santa Clara County found that 2.5 to 4.2% of those tested were positive for antibodies -- a number suggesting a far higher past infection rate than the official count.
Based on the initial data, researchers estimate that the range of people who may have had the virus to be between 48,000 and 81,000 in the county of 2 million -- as opposed to the approximately 1,000 in the county's official tally at the time the samples were taken.
“Our findings suggest that there is somewhere between 50- and 80-fold more infections in our county than what’s known by the number of cases than are reported by our department of public health," Dr. Eran Bendavid, the associate professor of medicine at Stanford University who led the study, said in an interview with ABC News' Diane Sawyer.
April 18, 2020
“Confirmed: Like Everywhere Else – the Vast Majority of New York State Coronavirus Victims Were Over the Age of 70” by The Gateway Pundit
“The WHO Lied, IHME Lied, Fauci Bought the Lies: Latest International Study Shows COVID-19 Mortality Rate at 0.2% Not 3.4% – Why Was The Gateway Pundit the Only One to Catch This?” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
April 19, 2020
“Research Projects Reveal Coronavirus Has Lethality Rate in Same Ballpark as Seasonal Influenza (VIDEO)” by The Gateway Pundit
April 20, 2020
“THIS IS FRAUD: CDC’s Latest Rules Change Forces States to Include Confirmed AND PRESUMED Coronavirus Fatalities — States Forced to Pad Their Numbers” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
April 22, 2020
“Why is This Not Being Reported? Current Data Provides Support that the China Coronavirus Reacts Significantly to Sun and Heat — Look at the Numbers from the Southern States!” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
“Sweden Resisted Suicidal Economic Lockdown – Now Stockholm Expected to Reach “Herd Immunity” in Weeks” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
“New Research Reveals Between 12 Million and 33 Million Americans Were Infected by Coronavirus – Mortality Rate Similar to Seasonal Flu” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
April 23, 2020
“Sweden Resisted Suicidal Economic Lockdown – Now Stockholm Expected to Reach “Herd Immunity” in Weeks” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
April 24, 2020
“Wolf Administration is Caught Adding Up to 269 Fake Coronavirus Deaths to State Totals the Day After Anti-Lockdown Protests in Pennsylvania” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
“THE LIST: Dr. Fauci’s 12 Deadly Mistakes and Contradictions — Including His Worst Mistake of Delaying Herd Immunity While Destroying US Economy” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
“SHOCK REPORT FROM SWEDISH REPORTER: Sweden Will Reach Herd Immunity in 2 Wks – Countries that Locked Down “Just Postponed Deaths” and Ruined Economies! #FireFauci” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
“SHOCKING: 80% of Swine Flu Victims were Under 65 – No Lockdown… 84% of Coronavirus Victims Are Over 60 – Lockdown Required” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
April 27, 2020
“Lockdown Vs. Non-Lockdown ‘Did Not Produce A Statistically Different Number Of Deaths,’ CA Docs Say” by Eric A. Blair for The Gateway Pundit
“Data Suggests REAL Coronavirus Death Rate In L.A. Is 0.18%, And 0.89% In NY” by Eric A. Blair for The Gateway Pundit
April 28, 2020
“Switzerland Allows Grandparents to Hug Their Grandkids After Study Finds Young Children Do Not Transmit Coronvavirus” by The Gateway Pundit
“Outrageous! FOX News Cuts Ties with Diamond and Silk After They Questioned Coronavirus Numbers” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
April 29, 2020
“CURL: COVID-19 Turning Out To Be Huge Hoax Perpetrated By Media” by The Gateway Pundit
May 2, 2020
“Coronavirus Death Counts Reported by Media Outpace Actual Deaths Reported Per CDC By Nearly 29,000” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
“There It Is: CDC Equates Coronavirus Hospitalizations to Seasonal Flu and Finally Admits It’s MUCH LESS Dangerous for Children” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
May 3, 2020
“Less than 1% of New York City Coronavirus Fatalities (0.61%) had NO Underlying Health Conditions” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
May 5, 2020
“Why Do Democrat States Have the Highest Number of Coronavirus Deaths? Why Does NYC Have Thousands of Deaths to Seoul, South Korea’s 2 Deaths?” by The Gateway Pundit
“More Coronavirus Fakery: Virginia Officials Pad Their COVID Numbers – Admit to Counting Same Person Three Times if They Received 3 Different Tests” by The Gateway Pundit
May 10, 2020
““There Is Nothing from the CDC I Can Trust!” – Dr. Birx Tells Off CDC Director, Claims COVID-19 Mortality Rate Inflated By as Much as 25%!” by The Gateway Pundit
May 11, 2020
“STUNNING: In the US 39% of All US COVID-19 Deaths — or 31,900 — Occurred in Nursing Homes” by The Gateway Pundit
“President of Tanzania Didn’t Trust WHO So Sent Samples of Sheep, Goats, Bunny, Trees, Fruit and Car Oil for COVID Testing — The Results Are In, Poor Goat” by The Gateway Pundit
May 12, 2020
“Two Months Ago Today We Were Attacked for Reporting that the W.H.O.’s Coronavirus Mortality Rate of 3.4% Was Completely Inaccurate! – And We Were 100% Correct!” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
“Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Daily Data Summary” by New York City Health
This report states,
The data in this report reflect events and activities as of May 12, 2020 at 6:00 PM. All data in this report are preliminary and subject to change as cases continue to be investigated. These data include cases in NYC residents and foreign residents treated in NYC facilities. This table shows only confirmed deaths. A death is considered confirmed when the person had a positive COVID-19 laboratory test.
Note that last part. They admit that they are not just counting deaths caused by covid-19. They are including deaths of people who had covid-19 when they died for whatever reason. According to them at that point (May 12),
In the 0 to 17 age group, there was at that point 9 total deaths, 6 of these with underlying conditions.
In the 18 to 44 age group, there was at that point 601 total deaths, 476 with underlyig conditions.
In the 45 to 64 age group, there was at that point 3413 total deaths, 2851 with underlying conditions.
In the 65 to 74 age group, there was at that point 3788 total deaths, 2801 with underlying conditions.
In the 75 and over age group, there was at that point 7419, 5236 with underlying conditions.
May 14, 2020
“How does the new coronavirus compare with the flu? - Which one is more worrisome?” by Rachael Rettner for Live Science
May 16, 2020
“If You Are Under Age 29 You Are More Likely to Drown than Die from Coronavirus” by The Gateway Pundit
“Colorado Admits to Over-Counting Coronavirus Deaths – Lowers Number by 272 Deaths!” by The Gateway Pundit
“If You Are Under Age 29 You Are More Likely to Drown than Die from Coronavirus” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
May 17, 2020
“Two Months Ago Today We Were Attacked for Reporting that the W.H.O.’s Coronavirus Mortality Rate of 3.4% Was Completely Inaccurate! – And We Were 100% Correct!” by The Gateway Pundit
May 18, 2020
“REOPEN AMERICA: Coronavirus Deaths Decrease Despite CDC Instructions to Count ‘Presumed’ Cases in the Coronavirus Totals” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
May 22, 2020
“WE NEED BETTER EXPERTS: CDC Admits Coronavirus Mortality Ratio is Similar to 1957-58 Flu Pandemic Where No Lockdown Was Needed” by The Gateway Pundit
May 27, 2020
“REPORT: Washington State Includes Multiple Shooting Deaths in COVID-19 Numbers — 80% of Deaths Listed Raise Questions” by The Gateway Pundit
“CDC Mortality Counts Show More Pneumonia Deaths Than Coronavirus Deaths While Media Reporting 20,000 More Deaths than CDC?!?” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
June 2020
“Estimating Risk for Death from Coronavirus Disease, China, January–February 2020” in Emerging Infectious Diseases Journal, Volume 26 Number 6, June 2020 by The CDC
In the abstract, they clearly state that in December of 2019,
the first case of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was identified in the city of Wuhan in the Hubei Province of China
Lower down, they state,
Our estimates of the risk for death in Wuhan reached values as high as 12% in the epicenter of the epidemic and ≈1% in other, more mildly affected areas. The elevated death risk estimates are probably associated with a breakdown of the healthcare system, indicating that enhanced public health interventions, including social distancing and movement restrictions, should be implemented to bring the COVID-19 epidemic under control.
June 3, 2020
“SORRY AMERICA – Those Catastrophic Mortality Rates Sold to Us by the WHO, Dr. Fauci and Dr. Birx Were a Huge Scam” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
June 4, 2020
“EXCLUSIVE: Mortality Rates of China Coronavirus were Complete Garbage – Now It Is Clear the Coronavirus Data Is Garbage as Well” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
“Mainstream Media Wrong Again: No New Coronavirus Cases Reported in Lake of Ozarks Among Memorial Day Weekend Partiers” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway
June 5, 2020
“EXCLUSIVE: The Lancet Study on Hydroxychloroquine Was a COMPLETE FRAUD – The Authors are Linked to the Pharmaceutical Industry and People Died Because of Their Lies!” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
June 7, 2020
“EXCLUSIVE: Coronavirus Mortality Study Shows: “Things Aren’t Much Worse Than a Bad Seasonal Flu”” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
This report begins,
In a Gateway Pundit exclusive, a study shows that when looking at the mortality rates for all causes this flu season, things aren’t much worse than a bad flu.
Dr. Richard Cross, PhD, provided us the following information related to the China coronavirus. We have been given his permission to share sections of his report. . .
. . . and, after going into detail, the report concludes,
Overall, these numbers are not surprising. The China coronavirus impacted the US little, when taken into context with the nation’s overall mortality rates.
Social distancing doesn’t appear to have much of an impact on overall mortality. Finally, the actions of the governor and health officials in New York caused that area to explode with cases and death, especially when compared to the rest of the country.
June 8, 2020
“Corrupt World Health Organization Does a 180 – Now Says Asymptomatic Spread of Coronavirus is “Very Rare” (VIDEO)” by Cristina Laila for The Gateway Pundit
June 15, 2022
“NPR: ‘Mounting Evidence’ Shows COVID Not Nearly As Deadly As Thought” by The Gateway Pundit
June 18, 2020
“EXCLUSIVE: Coronavirus Mortality Study Continues to Confirm Overall Mortality Not Much Different Than a Bad Seasonal Flu” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
This report begins. . .
On March 17, 2020, we were the first to identify that the WHO and the WHO’s Director General Tedros were pushing fraudulent numbers regarding the expected mortality of the coronavirus. The WHO over-stated the mortality rate of the virus by at least 20 times the actual number.
We then followed up with multiple posts on the subject. Next we reported on June 7, 2020, a study showed that when looking at the mortality rates for all causes this flu season, things aren’t much worse than a bad flu.
More current data today supports this observation.
Dr. Richard Cross, PhD, provided us the following information related to the China coronavirus. We have been given his permission to share sections of his report. . .
. . . before going into detail.
June 19, 2020
“FINALLY! Fauci Admits Widespread Lockdowns Not Needed In U.S.” by Eric A. Blair for The Gateway Pundit
June 19, 2020
“FINALLY! Fauci Admits Widespread Lockdowns Not Needed In U.S.” by Eric A. Blair for The Gateway Pundit
June 20, 2020
“Mainstream #FakeNews Media CAN’T STOP LYING About Coronavirus — Never Trust the #FakeNews Media” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
June 21, 2020
“EXCLUSIVE: Coronavirus Mortality Study in Sweden Is Consistent with US Study – Confirms Overall Mortality Not Much Different Than a Bad Seasonal Flu” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
June 25, 2020
“WE WERE RIGHT – CDC Now Estimates 22 Million Americans Infected with the China Coronavirus Making US Mortality Rate 0.6% – Confirming Our Estimates from March” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
July 1, 2020
“CURL: Mainstream Media Go All In With ‘Panic Porn’ Over COVID-19” by The Gateway Pundit
“HUGE: MASSIVE CDC FRAUD UNCOVERED – CDC Grossly Overcounting Active China Coronavirus Cases Causing States to Keep Their Economies Closed Indefinitely” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
July 3, 2020
“EXCLUSIVE: We Know the Democrat and Deep State Reactions to the China Coronavirus Are a Sham Because the Garbage Data is Hidden and Because Joe Biden is Failing” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
July 5, 2020
“Stanford Doctor Confirms What We’ve Been Saying for Months – For People Under Age 45 the COVID-19 Mortality Rate is Almost 0%” by The Gateway Pundit
“Despite the Media Lies – Study Shows Hydroxychloroquine Can Provide a 50-70% Chance of Recovery from the China Coronavirus” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
July 8, 2020
“Ignored by American Media and the CDC: Children are SEVEN TIMES More Likely to Die from Seasonal Flu than the Coronavirus!” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
“There is NO WAY New York State’s Nursing Home COVID-19 Death Totals Are Accurate — Not a Chance in Hell” by The Gateway Pundit
July 9, 2020
“Illinois Department of Health Director Admits Anyone with Coronavirus at Time of Death is Counted as a Coronavirus Death (VIDEO)” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway
July 11, 2020
“HUGE: The Coronavirus Tracking Project’s Numbers are Suspect After They Are Caught Tacking On Previous Deaths to Current Totals” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
“Texas Emergency Chief Advises Residents to Wear a Mask at All Times, Even in Your Own Home (VIDEO)” by Cristina Laila for The Gateway
July 13, 2020
“Study from the New England Journal of Medicine Shows the Only Reason for Keeping Children Home from School is Politics” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
July 14, 2020
“TOTAL FAILURE: New York State and Governor Cuomo Had the Worst Coronavirus Death Ratio in the World – Higher than Any State and Higher than ANY NATION!” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
“Stunning! Texas Coronavirus Numbers Show COVID-19 Less Lethal than Last Two Flu Seasons” by The Gateway Pundit
“"Florida’s COVID Positivity Rate is Skewed – Countless Labs Are Reporting 100% Positivity Rate – Medical Centers Admit REAL Rate is 9% Or Less!” by The Gatewa Pundit
July 15, 2020
“EXCLUSIVE: Coronavirus Study Confirms, with Exception of New York and New Jersey, Overall Mortality Not Much Different Than a Bad Flu Season” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
This report begins. . .
On March 17, 2020, we were the first to identify that the WHO and the WHO’s Director General Tedros were pushing fraudulent numbers regarding the expected mortality of the coronavirus. The WHO over-stated the mortality rate of the virus by at least 30 times.
We then followed up with multiple posts on the subject. We reported on June 7, 2020, a study showed that when looking at the mortality rates for all causes this flu season, things aren’t much worse than a bad flu.
We followed up on this study on June 18th with more current data supporting these results.
Today we have more information based on more current data that supports our initial observations – that current mortality rates from the China coronavirus are within expectations for an above-average flu season with the exception of NYC.
. . . before going into further depth.
July 17, 2020
“They’re Lying to You… FLORIDA: Motorcycle Crash Listed as Coronavirus Death (Video)” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
“EXPERT EXCLUSIVE: With COVID-19 Scientific Disinformation Is, Quite Literally, Killing Us” by The Gateway Pundit
“BREAKING REPORT: Health Officials in Numerous States ‘Mistakenly’ Included Positive Results From Antibody Tests When Reporting New COVID-19 Cases to CDC” by The Gateway Pundit
June 18, 2022
“Cuomo’s Legacy: At Least 4,500 COVID-19 Patients were Sent to Seed New York Nursing Homes Killing at Least 6,000 Residents” by The Gateway Pundit
July 19, 2020
“Reports of a Sudden Surge in Texas Coronavirus Cases Including More Than 80 Infants is FALSE, Officials Say” by Cristina Laila for The Gateway Pundit
July 20, 2020
“Flaw in Manufacturer’s Testing System For Coronavirus Used by Labs Across the US Causing False Positives” by Cristina Laila for The Gateway Pundit
July 22, 2020
“Janice Dean: COVID-19 killed my in-laws after Cuomo's reckless New York nursing home policy” by Janice Dean for USA Today
“New Study Refutes China’s Narrative of COVID-19 Being a Natural Animal-to-Human Transmission” by The Gateway Pundit
July 23, 2020
“Ignored by the Media and Dr. Fauci: Nearly Twice as Many Children and Young Adults Died from Flu than from China Coronavirus in Past Year” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
“Yale Epidemiology Professor Says Hydroxychloroquine Could Save 100,000 Lives” by Eric A. Blair for The Gateway Pundit
July 24, 2020
“FLORIDA: Death Related to a Gun Shot Wound and Deaths from Weeks Ago Are Suddenly Counted as COVID Deaths in Official Mortality Reporting” by The Gateway Pundit
July 25, 2020
“Palm Beach CBS News Finds Suicide and a Fall Listed as COVID Deaths – Only 169 of 581 COVID Deaths Did Not Have Contributing Illnesses (VIDEO)” by The Gateway Pundit
July 29, 2020
“Perspective: St. Louis Has 12 Coronavirus Deaths in July and 47 Homicides in July” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
July 31, 2020
“COVID-19 Mortality Reporting is Masterfully Misrepresented – Method of Reporting Makes Current Mortality Appear Much Worse Than It Is” by The Gateway Pundit
“Ontario, Canada Govt Medical Official Warns Against Mass Coronavirus Testing– ‘Will Not Actually Achieve Anything’, False Positives ‘Almost Half’ in Low COVID Areas (Video)” by The Gateway Pundit
August 3, 2020
“More Children Die from Car Crashes and Drowning Each Year than Coronavirus — But Teachers Want to Keep Schools Closed” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
August 5, 2020
“UNREAL: Twitter Suspends Trump Campaign Account for Saying “Children Almost Immune” from COVID-19 — BUT THEY’RE RIGHT! — More Kids Die from Drowning, Car Accidents” by The Gateway Pundit
“BREAKING: Twitter Bans President Trump’s Campaign From Tweeting Until They Remove Post Containing ‘Coronavirus Misinformation’ on Kids and COVID-19” by The Gateway Pundit
August 10, 2020
“A Child in US 2,000 Times More Likely to be Victim of Child Trafficking than to Die from Coronavirus” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
August 18, 2020
“Per CDC Data the COVID-19 Death Rate Peaked in the US in April – There are More Pneumonia Deaths Than COVID-19 Deaths in 2020” by The Gateway Pundit
“On Same Day as His DNC Speech AP Reports Governor Cuomo Killed 11,000 New Yorkers in Nursing Homes, Not 6,000 …And It’s Likely Much Higher” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
August 19, 2020
“Perspective: There are 10 Times as Many Alcohol-Related Deaths as Coronavirus Deaths in College-Age Kids in America” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
August 21, 2020
“CDC Data Confirms COVID Mortality Rates Increase with Age – Rates for Those Under 24 Almost Nil” by The Gateway Pundit
August 22, 2020
“MORE FRAUD: Arizona Counts Any Death Within 60 Days of Positive COVID Test As COVID Death” by The Gateway Pundit
August 27, 2020
“Thousands Of Swedes Receive False-Positive COVID-19 Results — Via Faulty Test Kits From China!” by The Gateway Pundit
August 27, 2020
“Thousands Of Swedes Receive False-Positive COVID-19 Results — Via Faulty Test Kits From China!” by The Gateway Pundit
September 3, 2020
“This is Fraud: 10% of Reported COVID-19 Deaths for Those Under 35 as Reported by the CDC Are Due to Poisoning, Trauma and Unintentional Injuries” by The Gateway Pundit
September 5, 2020
“Study Shows that More than 90% of Cases Tested COVID-Positive Are Wrongly Diagnosed!” by The Gateway Pundit
September 7, 2020
“Study by Researchers at UCLA and Stanford Finds Coronavirus “Ten Times Less Fatal than First Thought (VIDEO)” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
September 15, 2020
“BUSTED: The Media Continues to Declare the COVID Crisis Is In Full Force Despite Data Around the World Indicating The Worst of It Was Over Some Time Ago” by The Gateway Pundit
September 16, 2020
“Sweden Records Lowest Level Of COVID-19 Cases Since March — With No Lockdown” by The Gateway Pundit
“STUNNING! Emails Reveal Nashville Mayor’s Office Colluded with Metro Health to Hide Actual COVID Numbers from Citizens-Business Owners because They Were So Low!” by The Gateway Pundit
September 20, 2020
“Biden Says 200 Million People Will Die From Covid by the End of His Speech (VIDEO)” by The Gateway Pundit
September 21, 2020
“With His Mask on Backwards, Joe Biden Claims 200 Americans Have Died From Covid (VIDEO)” by The Gateway Pundit
September 22, 2020
“IT’S A SCAM: After 48,299 COVID-19 Cases at 37 US Universities – Only 2 Hospitalizations and ZERO Deaths — More Likely to Be Killed By a Dog” by The Gateway Pundit
September 24, 2020
“FOX News Rick Leventhal Confirms Our Prior Reporting – 94% of COVID-19 Deaths Had “On Average 2-3 Other Potential Causes of Death”” by The Gateway Pundit
September 26, 2020
“HUGE! CDC and Fauci’s NIAID Add Non-Pneumonia Deaths to US COVID-19 Totals Unlike Other Countries! — If These Deaths are Removed US Has 86,000 COVID-19 Deaths” by The Gateway Pundit
September 28, 2020
“WE WERE RIGHT: In March We Provided Evidence that the WHO’s Coronavirus Mortality Rate Was Grossly Overstated – The CDC’s Recent Numbers Prove We Were Right” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
October 3, 2020
“WHO Finally Agrees Our March Analysis was Correct: The WHO’s Early Coronavirus Mortality Rate Was Irresponsibly Overstated and We Called Them Out with The CORRECT NUMBERS!” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
“New WHO Data Reveals Coronavirus Less Lethal than Last Three Major US Pandemics — And they Destroyed the Economy for This” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
October 8, 2020
“Latest Report Shows Total COVID Deaths Include Cases Where COVID Is NOT Listed on Death Certificates” by The Gateway Pundit
October 21, 2020
“FL House of Representatives Report Shows More than 40% of Florida’s Covid-19 Deaths May Not Merit that Classification” by The Gateway Pundit
November 16, 202
“WTH? — CDC Lists 26,557 Heart Attacks as COVID Deaths, Lists 7,919 Accidents and Poisonings as COVID Deaths” by The Gateway Pundit
November 17, 2020
“ONE MORE TIME: We Don’t Know the Real Number of Active COVID Cases or Actual Deaths But We Do Know Young Americans Have Almost No Chance of Dying from the China Coronavirus” by The Gateway Pundit
November 27, 2020
“Johns Hopkins Study Mysteriously Disappears after it Revealed, In Spite of COVID, No More Deaths in 2020 Than In Prior Years” by The Gateway Pundit
November 29, 2020
“Perspective: St. Louis Has 239 Homicides this Year and 238 Coronavirus Deaths – At Least 50 Children Shot So Far This Year” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
“Why Does the Liberal Media Refuse To Report Meaningful Data on Covid?” by The Gateway Pundit
December 16, 2020
“Pennsylvania Health Department Issues Preferred COVID Orgy Regulations: Wear a Face Covering, Avoid Kissing, Wash Hands Often” by The Gateway Pundit
December 18, 2020
“Grand County, Colorado: 40% of COVID Deaths Were Actually Victims of Gunshot Wounds” by The Gateway Pundit
December 24, 2020
“THEY’RE LYING TO YOU: WHO Deletes Naturally Acquired Immunity from Their Website” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
December 27, 2020
“330,000 Americans Die ‘With’ China Coronavirus – CDC says Number Who Died “From” Coronavirus Is Much Less, Around 6 Percent” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
December 28, 2020
“Austrian Lawmaker Tests Coca Cola for COVID Infection Before His Colleagues and Drink Tests Positive” by The Gateway Pundit
January 1, 2021
“Then It’s Not a Vaccine: Crazy Dr. Fauci Said in October Early COVID Vaccines Will Only Prevent Symptoms and NOT Block the Infection …What?” by The Gateway Pundit
January 24, 2021
“CA Gov. Newsom Hides Key Covid Data Used to Justify Endless Lockdowns, ‘Too Complex and Would Confuse the Public’” by Cristina Laila for The Gateway Pundit
January 31, 2021
“A Miracle! Only 23 Americans Tested Positive for Flu Last Week Compared to 14,657 Cases Reported Last Year at Same Time” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
February 9, 2021
“CDC Exposed: Inflated Covid Deaths By 1600% Throughout The Election, “Violated Multiple Federal Laws” Peer-Reviewed Study Finds…State, Local Governments Must Act” by Patty McMurray for The Gateway Pundit
February 10, 2021
“Here We Go: CDC Study Finds Two Masks Are Better Than One – Just One Week After Fauci Backtracks on Wearing Multiple Face Masks” by Cristina Laila for The Gateway Pundit
February 22, 2021
“Remarks by President Biden on the More Than 500,000 American Lives Lost to COVID-19” by The White house
In this statement (supposedly) from Biden, it is claimed,
THE PRESIDENT: Each day, I receive a small card in my pocket that I carry with me in my schedule. It shows the number of Americans who have been infected by or died from COVID-19. Today, we mark a truly grim, heartbreaking milestone: 500,071 dead. That’s more Americans who have died in one year in this pandemic than in World War One, World War Two, and the Vietnam War combined. That’s more lives lost to this virus than any other nation on Earth.
However, as The Washington Post reports that this is false.
February 23, 2021
“Biden’s messed-up math comparing war deaths to covid deaths” by The Washington Post
February 25, 2021
“A welcome casualty, for once, of the COVID-19 pandemic: flu” by The Associated Press for The Los Angeles Times
This report reads in part,
. . . Flu has virtually disappeared from the U.S., with reports coming in at far lower levels than anything seen in decades. . .
At Maine Medical Center in Portland, the state’s largest hospital, “I have seen zero documented flu cases this winter,” said Dr. Nate Mick, the head of the emergency department.
Ditto in Oregon’s capital city, where the outpatient respiratory clinics affiliated with Salem Hospital have not seen any confirmed flu cases. . .
The numbers are astonishing considering that flu has long been the nation’s biggest infectious-disease threat. In recent years, it has been blamed for 600,000 to 800,000 annual hospitalizations and 50,000 to 60,000 deaths.
Across the globe, flu activity has been at very low levels in China, Europe and elsewhere in the Northern Hemisphere. And that follows reports of little flu in South Africa, Australia and other countries during the Southern Hemisphere’s winter months of May through August. . .
March 4, 2021
“British Government Study Confirms Covid-19 Vaccine Risk: Infections INCREASE in Fortnight after Jab – Updated” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
March 6, 2021
“Columnist: COVID Numbers Vindicate Ron DeSantis” by ProTrumpNews Staff for The Gateway Pundit
March 7, 2021
“CDC Claims Mask Mandates Don’t Have Statistically Improved Impact on Spread of COVID Than No Masks At All – Will Therefore Continue Pushing Masks” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
March 8, 2021
“CDC Study Finds 78% of People Hospitalized, Needed a Ventilator or Died From Covid-19 Were Overweight or Obese” by The Gateway Pundit
March 30, 2021
“Fauci Was Wrong. Free States Fared Better than Authoritarian States Run by Tyrannical Leftists” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
April 6, 2021
“‘It Can Be Confusing…I’m Not Really Quite Sure’ – Fauci on Texas Covid Cases Dropping Despite Ignoring His Advice on Masks, Social Distancing (VIDEO)” by The Gateway Pundit
April 24, 2021
“Yale Epidemiologist: More than Half of New COVID Patients Have Been Vaccinated (VIDEO)” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
May 9, 2021
“NEVER FORGET: The So-Called Experts Were Completely Wrong on Their COVID Predictions and Its Mortality Rate and Still Are” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
May 17, 2021
“BOOM! CDC Director Finally Admits that COVID Cases were Over-Counted in Hospitals– Just as Gateway Pundit and Donald Trump Reported in August” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
May 19, 2021
“WE WERE RIGHT: In August 2020 TGP Reported Per the CDC That Only 6% of All COVID-19 Deaths Were Caused EXCLUSIVELY by the COVID-19 Virus – Today It’s Down to 5%!” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
June 23, 2021
“Breaking: CDC Admits to Finding More Cases of Rare Heart Inflammation than Expected in Young Adults after COVID Vaccine Shots” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
June 26, 2021
“NOT MAKING HEADLINES: CDC Officials Admit More Hospitalizations of Young People from Vaccine than From the Actual COVID Virus – Including HUGE Number of Heart Problems Reported” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
July 17, 2021
“New UK Study: People Who Have Been Vaccinated Make Up 47% of New COVID Cases” by Julian Conradson for The Gateway Pundit
July 21, 2021
“Sen. Ron Johnson: Data from Israel Shows 84% of New COVID Cases are with Vaccinated Individuals (VIDEO)” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
July 29, 2021
“EXCLUSIVE: CDC COVID-19 Hospitalization Data Will Shock You – What the Media is Not Showing You” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
August 11, 2021
“CDC Quietly Adjusts Florida’s Covid-19 Numbers After State’s Health Department Blasts Them For Combining Multiple Days of Data Into One” by Cristina Laila for The Gateway Pundit
August 25, 2021
“New governor of New York adds 12,000 deaths to publicized COVID tally” by CBS News
“Governor Kathy Hochul Acknowledges 12,000 More Deaths in New York From COVID Than Previously Disclosed by Cuomo” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
Newly sworn in Governor Kathy Hochul on Wednesday acknowledged nearly 12,000 more deaths in the state of New York that had been previously disclosed by Andrew Cuomo.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul promised more government transparency on her first day in office, and by day’s end her administration had quietly acknowledged nearly 12,000 more deaths in the state from COVID-19 than had been publicized by her predecessor, Andrew Cuomo.
New York now reports nearly 55,400 people have died of COVID-19 in New York, based on death certificate data submitted to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, up from about 43,400 that Cuomo had reported to the public as of Monday, his last day in office.
We reported more than a year ago that former Governor Cuomo instituted policies that ensured nursing homes millions in COVID funds and the resulting deaths of elderly New Yorkers. This was not shared by the mainstream media.
September 3, 2021
“CDC Admits COVID Lethality Rate Overstated – Twice As Many Americans Had COVID as Previously Thought” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
October 8, 2021
“WOW! Fake News Giant NY Times Added 800,000 to Total of Children Hospitalized with Coronavirus” by The Gateway Pundit
October 27, 2021
“WINNING: Florida Now Has the LOWEST Rate of New Covid Cases Per Capita in The Nation – State Has Remained Open With No Mandates, No Masks, and Almost No Restrictions” by Julian Conradson for The Gateway Pundit
November 11, 2021
“CDC Admits It Has No Record of an Unvaccinated Person Spreading Covid After Recovering From Covid” by Cristina Laila for The Gateway Pundit
December 29, 2021
When asked about a new CDC guideline beginning at 2:10 in the video in the tweet below, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky says testing at the end of quarantine is no longer needed because PCR tests can stay positive for up to 12 weeks or 3 months.
“So, what we do know is the PCR test after infection can be positive for up to 12 weeks so that is not going to be helpful,” Walensky says (and more).
“HUGE. CDC Withdraws Use of PCR Test for COVID and Finally Admits the Test Can Not Differentiate Between the Flu and COVID Virus” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
This is BIG NEWS.
After December 31, 2021, the CDC will withdraw the emergency use authorization of the PCR test for COVID-19 testing. The CDC finally admitted the test does not differentiate between the flu and COVID virus.Via the CDC website:
In preparation for this change, CDC recommends clinical laboratories and testing sites that have been using the CDC 2019-nCoV RT-PCR assay select and begin their transition to another FDA-authorized COVID-19 test. CDC encourages laboratories to consider adoption of a multiplexed method that can facilitate detection and differentiation of SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses. Such assays can facilitate continued testing for both influenza and SARS-CoV-2 and can save both time and resources as we head into influenza season.
This explains the disappearance of Flu cases in the US in 2020. It also inflated the COVID cases as Dr. Fauci and the DC elites knew would happen.
Here is the full article.
Via Europe Reloaded:
“QUIETLY WITHOUT MEDIA ATTENTION, THE CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC) HAS WITHDRAWN THE PCR PROCESS AS A VALID TEST FOR DETECTING AND IDENTIFYING SARS-COV-2.
“After December 31, 2021, CDC will withdraw the request to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) of the CDC 2019-Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) Real-Time RT-PCR Diagnostic Panel, the assay first introduced in February 2020 for detection of SARS-CoV-2 only.”
The CDC admits that the PCR test cannot differentiate between SARS-CoV-2 and influenza viruses.
I reported several months ago that the “health authorities” had reached this decision but were withholding its implementation until the end of 2021. They needed the fake test to keep the fear going in order to achieve as much vaccination, and therefore as much profit, as possible.
It is extraordinary that the CDC’s withdrawal of the test received no attention from the media or politicians.
Dr. Kary Mullis, Nobel Laureate and inventor of the PCR process said several years ago that “the PCR is a process. It does not tell you that you are sick.” It was never meant to be a Covid test.”
“CDC Director Walensky Says Testing at the End of Quarantine No Longer Needed Because PCR Tests Can Stay Positive For Up to 12 Weeks” by Cristina Laila for The Gateway Pundit
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky on Wednesday said testing at the end of quarantine is no longer needed because PCR tests can stay positive for up to 12 weeks.
The CDC has known about the faulty PCR tests from the beginning but they used the tests to destroy the economy and unseat Trump.
After December 31, 2021, the CDC will withdraw the use of the PCR test for COVID-19 testing. The CDC finally admitted the test does not differentiate between the flu and COVID virus.
This explains the disappearance of Flu cases in the US in 2020. It also inflated the COVID cases as Dr. Fauci and the DC elites knew would happen.
Walensky finally admitted what we have known to be true for nearly two years: Faulty PCR tests plus long quarantine times have created a “casedemic.”
“So, what we do know is the PCR test after infection can be positive for up to 12 weeks so that is not going to be helpful,” Walensky said Wednesday on “Good Morning America.”
She continued, “You’re not going to be transmitting during all of that period of time. We’ve seen that in study after study.”
Walensky also admitted the antigen test people were taking five days after Covid infection was faulty and therefore no longer needed.
“We followed numerous areas of science in making this important decision.” Watch our full interview with @CDCDirector Rochelle Walensky on the decision to cut the COVID-19 isolation period in half.A quick recap of the CDC’s sudden shift in the last 48 hours after Biden said “there is no federal solution to Covid”:
The CDC was wrong about Omicron and they suddenly shifted their guidelines on quarantine times in just a matter of 24 hours.
The CDC on Monday recommended shorter Covid isolation and quarantine time for all Americans.
The CDC made the decision to cut isolation time from 10 to 5 days in an effort to help Joe Biden and make sure there isn’t a total collapse of society under his watch.
The CDC withdrew the use of PCR tests for Covid and finally admitted the test cannot differentiate between Covid and the flu.
The CDC also admitted testing at the end of isolation is no longer needed because the PCR and antigen tests are faulty.
What else is the CDC lying about for political reasons?
“HUGE. CDC Withdraws Use of PCR Test for COVID and Finally Admits the Test Can Not Differentiate Between the Flu and COVID Virus” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
“Pandemic of the Vaccinated: Two Studies Show New Evidence that Covid-19 Vaccines “Cause More Illness than They Prevent”” by Julian Conradson for The Gateway Pundit
January 8, 2022
“HERE IT IS: New York Finally Releases its First Breakdown of People Hospitalized FOR Covid vs. People Hospitalized WITH Covid” Cristina Laila for The Gateway Pundit
The media on Friday went into overdrive with Covid fear porn and reported: “NY Covid Hospitalizations Top 11K as State Reports Highest Single-Day Deaths Since Mass Vaccine Rollout”
However, more than half of the ‘Covid hospitalizations’ reported in New York are not due to Covid.
New York state finally released its first breakdown of what share of people are hospitalized FOR Covid vs. how many people are hospitalized WITH Covid.
In NYC, 49% of people hospitalized were admitted for COVID, everyone else just happened to test positive.
New York Governor Hochul on Friday updated New Yorkers on the state’s progress combating Covid.
Below is data that shows how many hospitalized individuals who have tested positive for COVID-19 were admitted for COVID-19/COVID-19 complications and how many were admitted for non-COVID-19 conditions:
In NYC, 51% of patients who count as “hospitalized with COVID” were admitted for reasons other than COVID and then tested positive for it anyway.
In NYC, 51% of patients who count as “hospitalized with COVID” were admitted for reasons other than COVID and then tested positive for it anyway. https://t.co/QPNMPL69vQ
— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) January 7, 2022
January 10, 2022
“Dr. Scott Atlas: TWO-THIRDS of COVID Deaths Had At Least SIX Co-Morbidities (VIDEO)” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
“FINALLY: CDC Director Walensky Admits the Vast Majority of COVID Deaths Had Not One, Not Two, Not Three – But “At Least FOUR” Comorbidities” by Julian Conradson for The Gateway Pundit
February 3, 2022
“Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds to End COVID-19 Emergency Declaration in the State – Will Deal with COVID-19 the Same as Flu” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
“Cancer” by The World Health Organization
In this piece, The W.H.O. states,
Cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide, accounting for nearly 10 million deaths in 2020, or nearly one in six deaths.
…and…
Around one-third of deaths from cancer are due to tobacco use, high body mass index, alcohol consumption, low fruit and vegetable intake, and lack of physical activity.
According to this, at least one third the deaths from what is the leading cause of death worldwide are preventable deaths. There’s no lockdown on tobacco or alcohol use. There are no fruit and vegetable mandates. There are no forced exercise programs.
March 14, 2022
“MORE TRICKS FROM THE CDC: Child Flu Deaths Continued to Mysteriously Disappear in 2021 – So They Could Ramp Up COVID Death Numbers and Abuse Children” by Jim Hoft for The Gateway Pundit.
March 19, 2022
“CONFIRMED: Additional Data Corroborates Excess Deaths Among Millennials Since the Experimental Vaccines Were Mandated – Confirms Covid is Not the Cause” by Julian Conradson for The Gateway Pundit
“45,500 Rapid COVID Tests Recalled – “High Number Of False Positive Reports” by ProTrumpNews Staff for The Gateway Pundit
March 30, 2022
“FOIA Reveals NIH Secretly DELETED COVID Data Provided by the Wuhan Lab at the BEGINNING of the Pandemic” by Julian Conradson for The Gateway Pundit
April 18, 2022
“Masks now optional for employees, customers following White House announcement” by Staff Writer for Delta Airlines
Effective immediately, masks are optional for all airport employees, crew members and customers inside U.S. airports and on board all aircraft domestically, as well as on most international flights..
…We are relieved to see the U.S. mask mandate lift to facilitate global travel as COVID-19 has transitioned to an ordinary seasonal virus.
Regarding the above, the Washington Post published, “Delta rewrites statement that called covid-19 ‘ordinary seasonal virus’” in which they wrote,
After backlash on social media, Delta Air Lines has walked back a comment falsely claiming that the coronavirus, which continues to account for more than 35,000 new cases per day, has become “an ordinary seasonal virus.”
The airline made the comment Monday in an announcement stating that it will no longer require masks — a move several U.S. airlines have made after a federal judge struck down mask mandates in public transportation settings.
Delta Air Lines rewrote the statement on Tuesday after a number of people — including public health experts — accused the carrier of spreading misinformation. The announcement now reads that the airline is “relieved” to see the mask mandate lifted as the coronavirus “transitions to a more manageable respiratory virus — with better treatments, vaccines and other scientific measures to prevent serious illness.”
May 3, 2022
“How to Change Your Mind About COVID-19” by the Atlantic
In the spring of 2020, as Americans continued to proclaim their excitement for basketball games and parades, an ER doctor named Dylan Smith watched in dismay. Was everyone else ignoring reality? That March, New York City hesitated to close its schools during the city’s first COVID wave. Smith was horrified. A major pandemic was arriving, and softening its blow would require closing schools, which he believed was the best way to protect kids. “There were a lot of suggestions that kids would be these super–carrier vectors,” he says, “where they would come home and they would infect Mom and Dad and Grandma and Grandpa, and they would infect teachers at school.”
Now, two years later, Smith has changed his mind. He thinks schools should’ve reopened much sooner—by early 2021 at the latest. In other words, Smith admits to rethinking one of his positions on COVID-19, an act that sometimes feels as risky as telling 17th-century Florentines that Earth revolves around the sun. Not everyone will agree with Smith’s reassessment. But maybe we can learn something from his willingness to do it.
Smith started having second thoughts about school closures in the fall of 2020. Unlike in the early days, his hospital, by that point, had plenty of tests. Kids didn’t seem to be getting very sick from COVID, and they appeared to have no greater risk of spreading it than everyone else. “This idea that kids were going to be these crazy vectors was no longer being borne out,” he says.
Then, he began to see kids come into the hospital with mental-health emergencies at alarming rates. Kids were having panic attacks and trying to kill themselves; some were saying they were stressed out because they couldn’t see their friends. What he saw mirrors national trends: 37 percent of high schoolers have experienced poor mental health during the pandemic, according to a CDC survey.
But as in other parts of the country, pediatric psych wards in Northern Virginia were so full that the kids would remain in the ER for three or four days while the doctors tried to find an open psychiatric bed. “They were just sitting in an ER room,” Smith told me. A social worker would stop by each day to check on them, and someone would roll a TV console from room to room. In the summer of 2020, he started to see younger and younger kids involved in shootings and stabbings. (Gun violence among kids younger than 17 spiked nationally in 2020.)
It’s hard to know what to chalk all of these issues up to—the ennui of Zoom school; less structure and supervision; the pandemic that, in teenage years, has seemed to grind on forever. But Smith noticed that movie theaters and restaurants were opening back up. Schools seemed more important. After vaccines became widely available in 2021, Smith didn’t see any further justification for school closures. When people expressed doubts about school reopenings, he made his opinion clear: The science supported it.
Many of us have updated our beliefs about COVID at some point in the past two years, even if we haven’t said so publicly. Perhaps you started out worried that the coronavirus was easily transmitted via surfaces, then you discarded that fear upon further evidence. Maybe you are a major infectious-disease specialist who at first thought that young, healthy people didn’t need boosters, then decided they should get them after all. Maybe you committed the ultimate noble flip-flop: You overcame your skepticism of vaccines and opted to get vaccinated.
The words ultimate noble flip-flop links to an article titled “The Tucker Carlson Fans Who Got Vaxxed”. This article offers no scientific support for these so-called vaccinations for covid. This article continues,
Confessing that we’ve changed our opinion is hard, and not only because we don’t like feeling stupid, or looking stupid, or being exiled from certain circles of Twitter. “If I admit I’m wrong, then I have a harder time relying on my own judgment every time I make a decision or have an opinion,” says Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania and the author, most recently, of Think Again. “I’m admitting that my convictions about the world are often incorrect, and that that makes the world a little bit scarier to live in.”
People get especially rigid in frightening and unpredictable situations. The pandemic has made many of us “seize and freeze in order to restore that sense of control,” Grant told me. The restaurants that are still using QR codes rather than paper menus—ostensibly for COVID reasons—are perhaps practicing a little terror management alongside their cost cutting.
Tenelle Porter, a psychologist at UC Davis, studies so-called intellectual humility, or the recognition that we have imperfect information and thus our beliefs might be wrong. Practicing intellectual humility, she says, is harder when you’re very active on the internet, or when you’re operating in a cutthroat culture. That might be why it pains me—a very online person working in the very competitive culture of journalism—to say that I was incredibly wrong about COVID at first. In late February 2020, when Smith was sounding the alarm among his co-workers, I had drinks with a colleague who asked me if I was worried about “this new coronavirus thing.”
“No!” I said. After all, I had covered swine flu, which blew over quickly and wasn’t very deadly.
A few days later, my mom called and asked me the same question. “People in Italy are staying inside their houses,” she pointed out.
“Yeah,” I said. “But SARS and MERS both stayed pretty localized to the regions they originally struck.”
Then, a few weeks later, when we were already working from home and buying dried beans, a friend asked me if she should be worried about her wedding, which was scheduled for October 2020.
“Are you kidding?” I said. “They will have figured out a vaccine or something by then.” Her wedding finally took place this month.
Smith talks like an ER doctor, giving you just enough information but not so much that it might slow him down. He’s 30 and has one of those apathetic buzz cuts that busy guys get. In our Zoom calls, his cat, Bucky, would periodically yowl in the background.
One thing that allows people like Smith to talk so openly about changing their mind is a loose attachment to their opinions. “Don’t let your ideas become part of your identity,” said Grant, the organizational psychologist.
For instance, at one point in our interview, I pointed out to Smith that teen mental health had been declining since before the pandemic. If anything, the pandemic has accelerated a teen-mental-health crisis that was already in motion. “So we’re applying causation where there was already a trend?” he asked. “That’s a valid point. People are going to choose the interpretation that fits with either their preconceived notions and their priors or is convenient to the position they want to hold.” Ultimately, he decided, if global crises and social media were already shredding teen mental health, the pandemic has “magnified the salience” of those two things.
Here, he’s using science-speak: acknowledging the contradicting evidence, evaluating the claim, and coming to the best conclusion you can under the circumstances. His is an attitude born of the emergency room, where you don’t always have a patient’s full test results before you have to treat them. He’s not saying it was wrong to close schools in 2020, just that as we accumulated more evidence and developed vaccines, the evidence pointed in the opposite direction.
According to Grant, the best way to keep an open mind in an unclear situation is to do just this: Think like a scientist. (The other, lesser ways to think are like a “preacher, prosecutor, and politician,” which are what they sound like.) The writer Julia Galef calls this “the scout mindset,” as opposed to the “soldier mindset.” The scout and scientist mindsets are approximately the same thing: “The motivation to see things as they are, not as you wish they were,” she writes in her eponymous book.
Thinking like a scientist, or a scout, means “recognizing that every single one of your opinions is a hypothesis waiting to be tested. And every decision you make is an experiment where you forgot to have a control group,” Grant said. The best way to hold opinions or make predictions is to determine what you think given the state of the evidence—and then decide what it would take for you to change your mind. Not only are you committing to staying open-minded; you’re committing to the possibility that you might be wrong.
Because the coronavirus has proved volatile and unpredictable, we should evaluate it as a scientist would. We can’t hold so tightly to prior beliefs that we allow them to guide our behavior when the facts on the ground change. This might mean that we lose our masks one month and don them again the next, or reschedule an indoor party until after case numbers decrease. It might mean supporting strict lockdowns in the spring of 2020 but not in the spring of 2022. It might even mean closing schools again, if a new variant seems to attack children. We should think of masks and other COVID precautions not as shibboleths but like rain boots and umbrellas, as Ashish Jha, the White House coronavirus-response coordinator, has put it. There’s no sense in being pro- or anti-umbrella. You just take it out when it’s raining.
Understanding when to abandon beliefs and when to recommit to them can help us ride out this pandemic and prepare for the next one. In a pandemic, we need “to be continually discovering and learning new things,” Porter told me. Still, she added, in a moment of intellectual humility: “I don’t know that we have hard data on that.”
Though people often deride those who change their mind as hypocrites, Grant and others think it’s a mark of integrity. It’s a sign that you’re not committed to an idea; you’re committed to the truth.
Smith didn’t publicly advocate for schools to reopen for in-person learning. He’s on Twitter, but he has few followers and rarely tweets. The only person who called him on his about-face was his wife. “I remember when you said that schools should close down and that people are being idiots for not closing schools down,” she told him.
“Yeah,” he said, evaluating the evidence. “You’re right.”
May 7, 2022
“The FDA Finally Admits that COVID-19 Should Be Treated Like the Flu” by Joe Hoft for The Gateway Pundit
June 15, 2022
“NPR: ‘Mounting Evidence’ Shows COVID Not Nearly As Deadly As Thought” by The Gateway Pundit
September 16, 2022
“Scientists debate how lethal COVID is. Some say it's now less risky than flu” by NPR
September 18, 2022
“President Joe Biden: The 2022 60 Minutes Interview” by 60 Minutes on Youtube
At 4:49, Biden is asked if the pandemic is over and he says that it is.
September 19, 2022
“President Biden: "The pandemic is over" | 60 Minutes” by 60 Minutes on Youtube
“Biden Says the Pandemic Is Over. But at Least 400 People Are Dying Daily” by Sheryl Gay Stolberg for the New York Times
September 29, 2022
“LA County Health Services Director Says 90% of Covid Positive Patients Were Not Hospitalized for Covid-19” by The Gateway Pundit
On Tuesday, Dr. Christina Ghaly, the Director of the Los Angeles County Department of Health Services (DHS), revealed that 90% of COVID-positive patients in four DHS hospitals were not hospitalized for COVID-19 contrary to previous reports.. . .
According to Ghaly, PCR results tend to give false positives for a couple of months.
“If you recall, we do test everyone on admission to the hospital for COVID. We used a PCR test, and because of that, there’s a lagging positivity given that the PCR test often remains positive for a couple of months, and it will take time for the trendline to decline to the point where it again mirrors the general population,” she said. . .
Kathryn Ann Barger-Leibrich, serving as a Republican member of the LA County Board of Supervisors, asked Dr. Ghaly, “what percentage were admitted for COVID and what percentage were admitted and then tested positive for COVID?”
Dr. Ghaly responded, “This is for the four DHS hospitals where we do the manual chart reviews to look at that. 10% are admitted to the hospital for COVID, and 90% are there for incidental findings. But they’re primarily there for another reason.”
LA County Health Services director Dr Christina Ghaly tells supervisor Kathryn Barger that 90% of their Covid positive patients were not hospitalized for CovidThe CDC has known about the faulty PCR tests from the beginning, but they still use it to test for COVID-19.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky last December said testing at the end of quarantine is no longer needed because PCR tests can stay positive for up to 12 weeks or 3 months, as reported by The Gateway Pundit.
“So, what we do know is the PCR test after infection can be positive for up to 12 weeks so that is not going to be helpful,” Walensky said on “Good Morning America.”. . .
Watch the video below:
October 18, 2022
“Moderna CEO Now Admits COVID-19 is Like Seasonal Flu – Says Only the Vulnerable Need a COVID Booster Shot (VIDEO)” by The Gateway Pundit
October 25, 2022
“Biden One Month After Declaring the Covid Pandemic is Over: Covid is Still a “Global Health Emergency” (VIDEO)” by The Gateway Pundit
October 28, 2022
“Current common COVID-19 symptoms are harder to distinguish from colds”by the Jerusalem Post
On his website, Dr. Malone says he is “an internationally recognized scientist/physician and the original inventor of mRNA vaccination as a technology, DNA vaccination, and multiple non-viral DNA and RNA/mRNA platform delivery technologies…” and much more. On his Substack, he describes himself as, “Inventor of mRNA & DNA vaccines, RNA as a drug. Scientist, physician, writer, podcaster, commentator and advocate. Believer in our fundamental freedom of free speech.”
Dr. Malone said, “There’s something like a $3,000 basically death benefit to a hospital if it can be claimed to be covid. There’s a financial incentive to call somebody covid positive. The CDC made the determination in year one - this is why all of our baseline data is junk…the hospitals receive a bonus from the government - I think it’s like 3,000 bucks - if someone is hospitalized and able to be declared covid positive. They also receive a bonus - I think the total is something like 30,000 in incentive if somebody gets put on the vent. Then they get a bonus if somebody is declared dead with covid. OK? So they have an incentive at the front end to declare somebody covid - a covid case - the CDC made the determination that they they were going to make a core assumption - if PCR positive - the - and you die, that is death due to covid and so the the extreme example just to to show the absurdity, if the patient comes in with a bullet hole to the head and they do a nose swab and they come up PCR positive, they’re determine to have died from covid when in fact they died from lead poisoning.”