WHO calls this virus a flu now
3 years after Mr Donald J.Trump called it flu.
36-40, M
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ElwoodBlues · M
Flu death rates depend on age. Here are typical numbers for the US:
50-64 years . . 9 deaths per 100,000
65+ years . . . . 22
In 2020 in the US, without vaccine, Covid deaths rates in the over 65 age range were above 5000 per 100,000. Covid-19 was 100X deadlier than a typical flu. Overall, US Covid death rates were 1000 per 100,000.
And Trump's attempts to treat Covid like the flu and to pretend it would go away on its own cost us HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of American lives.
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All through Trump's term, our Covid per capita death rate was DOUBLE that of countries like Canada & Germany, resulting in about 550,000 Covid deaths under Trump.
If Trump had handled Covid as well as, say, Justin Trudeau, we'd have had 275,000 FEWER DEATHS! Put another way, Trump's mis-management of Covid cost more deaths than THREE Viet Nam wars!! Three Viet Nams in a SINGLE YEAR, not spread out over ten years like the actual war!!!
Sure, Covid came from outside. And different leaders in different countries managed it differently. Trump's piss-poor Covid management is made clear by the relative per capita death rates.
[quote]"I look at it this way," Birx told CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta. "The first time, we have an excuse. There were about 100,000 deaths that came from that original surge. All of the rest of them, in my mind, could have been mitigated or decreased substantially."[/quote]
50-64 years . . 9 deaths per 100,000
65+ years . . . . 22
In 2020 in the US, without vaccine, Covid deaths rates in the over 65 age range were above 5000 per 100,000. Covid-19 was 100X deadlier than a typical flu. Overall, US Covid death rates were 1000 per 100,000.
And Trump's attempts to treat Covid like the flu and to pretend it would go away on its own cost us HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of American lives.
[sep][sep][sep]
All through Trump's term, our Covid per capita death rate was DOUBLE that of countries like Canada & Germany, resulting in about 550,000 Covid deaths under Trump.
If Trump had handled Covid as well as, say, Justin Trudeau, we'd have had 275,000 FEWER DEATHS! Put another way, Trump's mis-management of Covid cost more deaths than THREE Viet Nam wars!! Three Viet Nams in a SINGLE YEAR, not spread out over ten years like the actual war!!!
Sure, Covid came from outside. And different leaders in different countries managed it differently. Trump's piss-poor Covid management is made clear by the relative per capita death rates.
[quote]"I look at it this way," Birx told CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent Sanjay Gupta. "The first time, we have an excuse. There were about 100,000 deaths that came from that original surge. All of the rest of them, in my mind, could have been mitigated or decreased substantially."[/quote]
TheOrionbeltseeker · 36-40, M
@ElwoodBlues Who is Guptil? In his mind?
ElwoodBlues · M
@TheOrionbeltseeker I have no idea where you came up with "Guptil." If you're talking about the person listening to Dr Deborah Birx, the point is the quote from Dr Birx. The Trump admin appointed Birx to the position of White House Coronavirus Response Coordinator. She was at many of Trump's Covid press conferences
TheOrionbeltseeker · 36-40, M
@ElwoodBlues It was all the result of fear mongering of Fauci.
ElwoodBlues · M
@TheOrionbeltseeker Death certificates are vetted and signed by thousands of city and county medical examiners all across the nation. BUT! You know better than all of them. [i]RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT[/i]