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COVID-19 May Soon Lose Status as an 'Epidemic' Under CDC Guidelines
2020-07-08
[PJMedia] Despite the recent spike in COVID-19 cases, deaths have continued to decline and may soon reach a level where the coronavirus (aka COVID19 or Chinese Plague)
...the twenty first century equivalent of bubonic plague, only instead of killing off a third of the population of Europe it kills 3.4 percent of those who notice they have it. It seems to be fond of the elderly, especially Iranian politicians and holy men...
will no longer qualify as an epidemic under CDC guidelines.

A disease outbreak qualifies as an "epidemic" by the CDC when the number of weekly deaths caused by the disease exceeds a certain percentage of overall deaths, explains Daniel Payne of Just The News.

According to the CDC, "Based on death certificate data, the percentage of deaths attributed to pneumonia, influenza or COVID-19 (PIC) decreased from 9.0% during week 25 to 5.9% during week 26, representing the tenth week of a declining percentage of deaths due to PIC." If the percentage continues to decline, it is likely COVID-19 will lose its classification as an epidemic in the next few weeks.

Some might scoff at the idea that deaths will continue to decline, but it’s been 22 days since COVID-19 cases started to spike and there’s been no spike in deaths.

Considering this data, it seems likely that deaths will continue to decline as it is mostly younger people getting infected, and treatments have also improved. A recent large-scale study conducted by the Henry Ford Health System also found that despite past reports and fearmongering by the media, hydroxychloroquine reduces the death rate of COVID-19 by more than half.
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Posted by:trailing wife

#7  Not even one black helicopter story of mass graves in Eastern Colorado.

Even the die-hards from three months back are like, whatever.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-07-08 15:57  

#6  Declining death rates, two treatment plans, looks like its time to go back to work.
Posted by: 49 Pan   2020-07-08 15:16  

#5  PIC
pre-integration complex
Posted by: Skidmark   2020-07-08 12:30  

#4  decreased from 9.0% during week 25 to 5.9% during week 26, representing the tenth week of a declining percentage of deaths due to PIC

Just for comparison purposes, the percentage of deaths due to PIC in April peaked at 27%, and has been steadily dropping ever since.
Posted by: Bobby   2020-07-08 10:33  

#3  Expect a change in the CDC definition of a pandemic/epidemic any day now.
Posted by: Rambler in Virginia    2020-07-08 10:10  

#2  ^Especially the ones in Melbourne.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-07-08 10:04  

#1  Lockdown4Evah religionists hit hardest.
Posted by: M. Murcek   2020-07-08 09:38  

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