COVID-19 Deaths and Incredible WHO Estimates

Alan Reynolds“Death Toll Hits 9 as Outbreak Spreads, ” was the scaryWall Street Journalheadline in print before it was toned downonline. COVID-19 deaths at a nursing home and hospital in Washington state were unrelated to the virusspreading“across the U.S.” The facts tell us much more about the exceptionally high risks of fatal infection from COVID-19 (or pneumonia or flu) among elderly people living close together in nursing homes or hospitals, many of them already sick.The ongoing COPD-19 outbreak in Kirkland Washington at the Life Care nursing home and Evergreen hospital represents high ‐​risk concentrations of vulnerable seniors. Among those who died in Washington,all but two were in their 70s or 80s (the other two in their 50s) and most had “underlying health conditions. ” Evergreen hospital has two more in critical condition, in their 70s and 90s, both with underlying conditions.What we just learned from Washington was already known from China ’s experience A February 24 article by Katarina Zimmer inThe Scientistprovides an excellent summary:“The latest data from China stem from an analysis of nearly 45,000 confirmed cases, and on the whole suggest that the people most likely to develop severe forms of COVID-19 are those with pre‐​existing illnesses and the elderly.While less than 1 percent of people who were otherwise healthy died from the disease, the fatality rate for people with cardiovascular disease was 10.5 percent...
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