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Deaths Are an Incomplete Measure of Covid-19’s Impact – American Council on Science and Health
The media regularly reports about deaths from Covid-19 as if that is the whole story. But it’s not. Covid-19 doesn’t behave like a cold or the flu. In many cases, it hangs on, leaving the patient with a host of chronic (and maybe permanent) conditions. Simply…
Accompanying the pandemic of Covid-19 infections is also an infodemic of inaccurate, sometimes dangerous misinformation. Based on some of the claims by people who downplay or doubt the severity of the pandemic, it might be reasonable to conclude that the outbreak is no worse influenza in a bad year. Some even maintain that Covid-19 is less a concern than flu, and cite the pandemics of 1917-1918 and 1968 as evidence. Central to these opinions is a perceived overall low death rate, especially amon…
