I don't really trust that source of biased reporting, the NY Times, on such a heavily politicized issue as Covid19 especially when they reference the corrupt WHO for scientific data. Within the first paragraph it already becomes apparent that the writer's intent is to make the fatality rate appear as high as possible...Donn Beach wrote: ↑Wed Jul 08, 2020 1:55 amso how deadly
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/04/heal ... n-facebook
Compare that figure to the one in this Washington Post article...More than six months into the pandemic, the coronavirus has infected more than 11 million people worldwide, killing more than 525,000. But despite the increasing toll, scientists still do not have a definitive answer to one of the most fundamental questions about the virus: How deadly is it?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2 ... es-larger/The number of people in the United States who have been infected with the coronavirus is likely to be 10 times as high as the 2.4 million confirmed cases, based on antibody tests, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday.
CDC Director Robert Redfield’s estimate, shared with reporters in a conference call, indicates that at least 24 million Americans have been infected so far.
So one article says more than 11 million worldwide while the other one says at least 24 million just in the U.S.. Who are we to trust? Personally, I'll go with the organization that isn't in China's back pocket and the slightly less far-left-leaning publication.
Then there's articles in scientific publications like New Scientist Magazine...
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg ... us-so-far/However, the team estimates that only 35 per cent of symptomatic cases have been reported in the US, and the figure is even lower for some other countries. The UK is estimated to have reported only 14 per cent, Sweden about 19 per cent and Yemen just 3 per cent.
What these statistics don’t reflect is the number of symptomless cases, which some evidence suggests can account for between a quarter and half of all coronavirus infections.
That article does, however, indicate that we are a long way from any certainty about the total number of infected.