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For example, in February of last year, Tony Fauci told us in public that the COVID outbreak could go one of two ways. It would either be a catastrophic pandemic — that’s what we were all worried about — or it could very well turn out to be just an unusually bad flu season. Those were the options.

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DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES: If it continues to evolve into what we hope it doesn’t, namely a pandemic flu, it will be very much like a really, really bad flu season or a moderately bad pandemic season.

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CARLSON: So it could be a pandemic or just a bad flu, which one would it turn out to be? At least one reporter asked him that in an email. He is a man called Jon LaPook, the chief medical correspondent at CBS News.

On February 16 of last year, LaPook asked Fauci just how dangerous COVID- 19 was. What were the numbers on it? At that time, you’ll remember, Fauci was telling the public not to wear masks. He was telling reporters it was fine to attend political rallies. Public gatherings were okay.

Fauci responded to LaPook by outlining the conditions that would make him change his mind and demand lockdowns, quote: “The current mortality of COVID-19 is about 2%. However, there are several folds more cases that are coming to the official attention of health authorities.” In other words, asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic infections. “If you count these, the case fatality rate could drop to 1% or even half a percent or less. If that is the case, then this would be a very severe flu season, 0.2 to 0.4%. Regular flu season was 0.1%, or a typical pandemic like 1957 or 1968, 0.5% to 0.9%. We’re not sure where this is going to land.”

So it’s interesting to note that Tony Fauci used the term “case fatality rate” in the email. That means the number of deaths divided by confirmed COVID-19 cases, confirmed meaning people who have gone to the doctor usually died in a hospital.

But then Fauci starts talking about the infection fatality rate. That includes the total estimated amount of COVID-19 infections in the country, including ones with no symptoms. That is a far more meaningful number, particularly if you’re trying to make health policy for the entire country.

You should calculate how many people who have the virus are dying from it. So what is that number? What is the actual death rate from COVID?

Well, at the height of the outbreak in late May, the CDC’s best estimate for the fatality rate for people with COVID-19 symptoms, just the ones with symptoms was 0.4%. That estimate was contained in the CDC document called “COVID-19 Pandemic Planning Scenarios.” It was intended for hospitals, it was not in the public press release, “Reason” Magazine got a copy of it.

JPMorgan looked at the data and came to pretty much the same conclusion. Infection fatality rates in the spring of 2020 at the height of the pandemic, were 0.06% in Santa Clara, California. They were the same in Los Angeles. They were point 0.18% in Miami Dade County.

In other words, by Tony Fauci’s own definition, what we are experiencing was effectively a severe flu season, at the worst. But that’s not what Fauci said under oath when he testified at the House Oversight hearing in March of last year.

In that hearing, Fauci claimed the COVID-19 infection mortality rate was around one%, which Fauci explained means it is, quote: ” … 10 times more lethal than the seasonal flu.” That’s untrue. That’s a lie it turns out.

General Mackevili wrote: ↑Sun Jun 06, 2021 5:53 pm You literally have to be a conspiracy theorist to believe what they're selling at this stage. But I get it, I guess. Logic these days: Orange Man still bad, so therefore it's only possibly that everything he says must be wrong, and the media hates Trump too, so they must to be right.