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The autopsy results could end up being really significant. I thought this was an open & shut case, but that could change drastically if it's ruled that he died from underlying health issues. This police officer may end up walking...

Look closer at the first photo. I missed him the first time too. :D

The government should stay out of private business, but social media companies shouldn't try to claim legal immunity from lawsuits through Section 230 if they're actively involved in what's published on their sites.

CFR by country: US - 5.8% Spain - 9.6% Italy - 14.3% France - 15.6% These three European countries appear to be statistical anomalies, because their fatality rates are much higher than average. I haven't studied them closely enough to form an opinion on why their fatality rates are so high. I...

NYC is an anomaly. They're one of the few places in our country that forced nursing homes & assisted living facilities to take COVID-19 patients. That's why their fatality rates are higher than the rest of the country.

From the article: Researchers also lambasted the CDC’s lack of transparency about its data sources. The eight-page document disclosed almost nothing about its numbers, citing only internal data and a preprint — a study that has not been peer-reviewed — led by scientists in Iran. You can't...

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/how-cdc-estimates.htm CDC uses a mathematical model to estimate the numbers of influenza illnesses, medical visits, hospitalizations, and deaths in the United States, as well as, the impact of influenza vaccination on these numbers. I understand the...

https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html The CDC estimates that 35.5 million U.S. citizens caught the flu during the 2018-19 flu season. This resulted in an estimated 34,200 deaths. That comes out to an infection fatality rate just below 0.1%. If you look at the same statistics from...

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/28/tru...med-at-cracking-down-on-facebook-twitter.html Trump to sign executive order aimed at cracking down on Facebook and Twitter, vows ‘FAIRNESS!’ President Donald Trump plans to sign an executive order Thursday cracking down on online platforms such as Facebook...

https://apps.who.int/gho/data/view.main.60800?lang=en The problem with this study is the data they used to set their parameters. They used the WHO's life tables for Italy. Someone is going to have to explain to me why an 80-84 year old from Italy would expect to live a decade longer if the...

One of the primary guidelines for reopening the economy was ramping up testing. The viral tests are typically only given to people that are symptomatic. Antibody tests are given to everyone. There's no doubt that positive test rates will be driven down by testing the asymptomatic, but I don't...

Don't overlook the fact that the parameters for the 5th scenario are based off the CDC's current best estimates. The CDC should have the best COVID-19 data in the world. So their current best infection fatality rate estimates should theoretically be the most accurate in the world. The data is...

The CDC lists 5 different scenarios based off different parameters. You'll see that their 5th scenario is noted as their "Current Best Estimate." This scenario states that 35% of cases are asymptomatic and symptomatic cases have a fatality rate of 0.4%. This equates to an overall infection...

https://reason.com/2020/05/24/the-cdcs-new-best-estimate-implies-a-covid-19-infection-fatality-rate-below-0-3/ The CDC's New 'Best Estimate' Implies a COVID-19 Infection Fatality Rate Below 0.3% According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the current "best estimate" for...

Most of the U.S. was shut down for about 6 weeks. We've slowly started to reopen over the past 3 weeks, and we haven't had a big spike in cases. With the exception of NYC, we never came close to overwhelming our healthcare system. Our decisions moving forward should be based off the data...

The military is part of the executive branch, so our enemy would have to kill over 2 million people to accomplish this feat. That would likely only occur if a nuclear world war killed off a large percentage of the population and society as we know it fell into chaos. I would probably be living...

It's estimated that anywhere from 5% to 20% of the world's population contract the flu every flu season. I'm sure there was a measurable percentage of the 4,800 crew members that were showing COVID-19 symptoms from different causes. Besides that, false positives are only one side of the coin...

The more I think about this story, the more it makes sense. This naval carrier had a crew of 4,800 people, and they were all tested more than once. What are the odds that you won't have a handful of test failures when you're running that many tests?

This doesn't make a lot of sense to me. I thought that reinfection only occurred after the mutation of a virus. I don't see how that's possible after only a couple weeks. It seems much more likely that the tests were false positive or the virus never fully cleared their systems. We're in big...

This is an old thread that got bumped. That figure was accurate when I posted it back in August of 2018.