Covid numbers vs deaths, interesting..........

[Jakezilla]

Yes the true number of positive cases is definitely higher....... But............It would be the same for any illness, (or past pandemic) not all cases get documented.
Going with these current numbers available, covid is worse than the common flu and the Canadian death rate (percent) seems high....

The Canadian death rate seem high compared to what? You can't compare it to the US or any other population unless you have an equal percentage of the population tested in each country.

Raise the testing rate in Canada and that death rate will drop like a stone.

Lets compare apples to apples and look at the FLU using the same method as the COVID numbers.

I couldn't find the flu deaths for this year but the flu cases for 2019-2020 season are 42537 based on laboratory testing (IPAC Infection Prevention and Control Canada) https://ipac-canada.org/influenza-resources.php. Average flu deaths per year in Canada as per Public Health Agency of Canada are 3500. https://www.myhealthunit.ca/en/healt...llet-2-eng.pdf

This gives a mortality of 8.22%

COVID - Canada...... 116,000 cases with 8,917 deaths puts that at a 7.6% death rate......
Flu Canada 42537 cases with 3500 deaths equals 8.22% death rate.

By this metric the Flu is deadlier than COVID

[fratri]

The Canadian death rate seem high compared to what? You can't compare it to the US or any other population unless you have an equal percentage of the population tested in each country.

Raise the testing rate in Canada and that death rate will drop like a stone.

Lets compare apples to apples and look at the FLU using the same method as the COVID numbers.

I couldn't find the flu deaths for this year but the flu cases for 2019-2020 season are 42537 based on laboratory testing (IPAC Infection Prevention and Control Canada) https://ipac-canada.org/influenza-resources.php. Average flu deaths per year in Canada as per Public Health Agency of Canada are 3500. https://www.myhealthunit.ca/en/healt...llet-2-eng.pdf

This gives a mortality of 8.22%

COVID - Canada...... 116,000 cases with 8,917 deaths puts that at a 7.6% death rate......
Flu Canada 42537 cases with 3500 deaths equals 8.22% death rate.

By this metric the Flu is deadlier than COVID

Stats, you got to love them.......

[Jakezilla]

Stats, you got to love them.......

Yep....figures fool when fools figure.

If the public and the politicians would stop eating up the fear the media is peddling we could put this behind us and get on with our lives.

[gbk]

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If the public and the politicians would stop eating up the fear the media is peddling we could put this behind us and get on with our lives.

No wiser words said about COVID for a very LONG time.....thank You for that.

[kickingfrog]

Like the Americans did in May?

[Rob Stewart]

News was saying today 83% of newly infected in Toronto are Blacks

from protests ?

There is a prevailing theory that people with a deficiency of Vitamin D are more susceptible. That doesn’t mean vitamin D prevents infection but that it reduces the symptoms.

Black people in Northern climates have a significantly higher risk of vitamin D deficiency because we normally use sunlight to make it. Light skin can make it easier than dark skin.

In the UK when adjusted for socio-economic factors black people were twice as likely to become sick with Covid19 so it seems to be that vitamin D is key.

But currently this is a hypothesis that is being studied.


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[fishfood]

Well this is the time to move outta the city if you choose too. The calm before the storm if anyone thinks the first lockdown was bad ,the second wave will be much worse. This is the safest we have been since December and anyone who may of had it in December is almost due again to catch it.

September will be bad when the kids go back to school. We will be keeping our kids home for the first month to see how it goes first.

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[canadaman30]

Another lockdown could spell disaster for some countries and governments could fall. Or we may have a bunch of vaccines available soon, all use at own risk...lol

[Snowwalker]

They are twisting the numbers on the liberal news.. The number of cases per 100,000 is in fact lowest in the states.

They all point to Sweden as a glowing example on how to do things, but they have a rate of 56 per 100,000 and the US is only 48 per 100,000. The number of cases in the states is higher, but they have a population many times larger then Sweden...but don't let fact get in the way.

[kickingfrog]

They are twisting the numbers on the liberal news.. The number of cases per 100,000 is in fact lowest in the states.


They all point to Sweden as a glowing example on how to do things, but they have a rate of 56 per 100,000 and the US is only 48 per 100,000. The number of cases in the states is higher, but they have a population many times larger then Sweden...but don't let fact get in the way.

Absolute crap. The US numbers are some of the worst in the world per capita period, and for a first world country with access to some of the best research and medical facilities their numbers are downright criminal. No one with any intelligence has pointed to Sweden as a glowing example (sure, compared to the other dumpster fires in the Europe it may not look as bad, but it's not glowing). Single source information will make you look like a fool every time.