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TXPaganBanker

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Wed Mar 18, 2020, 01:37 PM Mar 2020

Closed case numbers on COVID-19 [View all]

In the United States, we keep being told that the mortality rate of COVID-19 is 1.5-3.5%, and that number is inflated. When you look at the numbers of “closed cases” worldwide, people that have either recovered or died, you get real numbers. As of 3/18/2020, 93,182 closed cases; 84,402 recovered, 8,780 that died. 120,070 cases don’t have an outcome yet. That gives a 9.4% mortality rate, or 3 times what we’re being told by the news.

Am I the only one that is looking at it like this?

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Closed case numbers on COVID-19 [View all] TXPaganBanker Mar 2020 OP
No. We don't know and might never know, because those numbers reflect The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2020 #1
I think we are running about 6% gibraltar72 Mar 2020 #2
Except you are looking at Turbineguy Mar 2020 #3
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