Can't fix what isn't broken, Joe.

How does that make a difference. It's a virus. The numbers are the numbers. And I've had many loved ones with the virus. They're all doing fine, including the son who is obese with a heart condition.

I've had more loved ones (2) lose their jobs since March than I've had loved ones even test positive (0) for the Rona.

While he is wrong, you also used the wrong numbers. For the week of 27/20 you go by current cases and deaths for that week. You calculated the total mortality rate, which would be different.

I am only calculating the mortality rate for the last 7 days. The mortality rate of the covid is the number infected vs the number that die.

No, you used the total amount for both, not current cases and deaths within the week. https://www.google.com/search?q=total+covid+deaths+usa&oq=total+covid+deaths+usa&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5j0i10j0i10i22i30.5132j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

The number infected that you use is only a best estimate, and you know it. We can't test everyone, which we would need to do in order to have an accurate number of those infected. So, chances are the number infected is much higher. Particularly given this virus's ability to somehow infect a host who remains asymptomatic.

The death rate is likely much closer to being an accurate number, although it's likely over-stated.

A higher infection rate, and a lower death rate, means a much lower mortality rate than what we're being fed by the lying media, and you.

So you’re saying that a .0259% mortality rate justifies the panic? It’s all political hysteria caused by the democrats and media in an attempt to hide the accomplishments of a great president. Same damn thing they’ve been doing since 2016. There’s nothing for Joe to fix unless he’s planning on defunding and abolishing the Democratic Party.

For f**k's sake: 2.59%. You have to multiply by a hundred - that's what a percentage IS. Literally means "out of a hundred."

Seriously, YOU HAVE TO LEARN THE BASICS if you want to claim you know more about this than doctors do.

confirmed cases is wrong though...that only records the ones tested. In a random sampling the tests are coming in at between 3 and 7% depending on the area, meaning that possibly that % is infected regardless of who actually receives the test. When you factor that % in with total population vs deaths, the percentage drops dramatically. But we're not going to have good numbers with this thing for a long time anyway now that government money has been pumped into the hospitals. They're already fudging numbers just to get the grants.

Why are you dividing by total population on a discussion on fatality rate???

Because fatality rate is based on the number of actual cases, not reported cases. Actual cases are estimated based on the percent of positives in random testing. For instance, North Carolina has a population of 10.5 million. At it highest, around 7% were testing positive in randomized testing, meaning about 735,000 were likely infected even though the reported cases were much lower. Most people who get it never even know unless they're tested. NC deaths currently are at 4236 which comes out to a rate of .006 (rounded up).

If a disease is 100% fatal guaranteeing death but only one person in the country ever gets it, how useful is it to talk about fatality with total population?

For God's sakes, this is basic stuff here, and you're trying to look like you're smarter than people who do this for a career.

Damn dude. I'm not trying to look smart. I'm just giving you the formula used by Health Infomatics firms that do this for a career. My daughter is lead manager for a firm doing this for the CDC. Let's take your scenario...100% fatality. In my comment above that would equal 735,000 deaths in NC., based on 7% testing positive in randomized testing.
The actual number of deaths is much lower, but that doesn't change how many are estimated to have caught it, which is 735,000. That's how the rate is determined. If only 1 person caught it, the randomized testing would look like .0000001%(estimated..not actual math) percent of 330 million infected and the death rate numbers would still work out to 100% fatality. Where do you think the CDC is getting these 99.4% survivability numbers? 99.4% survivability is equal to .006 death rate.

I said the week ending October 27, 2020, not the entire pandemic. There were 492,025 cases in the last 7 days. There were 5,628 deaths of those with the virus in the last 7 days. Apples and apples. 5,628/492,025=0.0114% If you don't understand the math, then you should go back and get your GED.

And why are you using completely different numbers to what you posted on your meme? Where's 5,628 come from???

covid.cdc.gov

And you're right. I wish the meme showed the last 7 days of deaths. I thought it was important to use the exact page from the CDC, but the CDC will not post the numbers on the same page. The CDC makes you search for it, otherwise everyone would have noticed this a long time ago. That being said, you could have just search covid 5628 and you would have seen. (rationalized again. ;) )

1.14%. You have to multiply by a hundred - that's what a percentage is. Literally means "out of a hundred."

Seriously, YOU HAVE TO LEARN THE BASICS if you want to claim you know more about this than doctors do. All of you.

No, you don't "multiply by a hundred" to get a percent. You divide. This is a fraction. We know how many people have caught the virus that week: 492,025. This is the "whole" number or the denominator in our equation. We want to know the percentage of people that caught the virus also died. We know the subset of people that caught the disease and also died, 5,628, however, we don't know how that number that relates to the set of people that caught the virus. We call the subset that died the "Part" number, or the numerator. To know what fraction of 100 (percent) the numerator is, we have the divide it against the denominator, or 5,628/492,026 which = 0.0114%

We do not multiply it by 100 to make it 1.14% because the answer, rounded down is one hundredth of one percent. It is more accurate to say that the percentage of people that died who are confirmed to have caught the virus during those days was one hundred fourteen ten thousandth of one percent. That's a really tiny number.

Okay, that's your third grade math lesson for the day.

I'm sick of people like you.

Let's say EVERYONE dies. 492,025 divided by 492,025. Do you get 100%?

Or did you only get 1?

YOU MUST MULTIPLY BY 100 TO GET YOUR PERCENTAGE.

YOU LITERALLY DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT AND YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT 7th GRADE MATH.

Look at this dumbass not knowing how percentages work

By your logic:

5,628/492,025 = 0.01

which means 5,628 is 0.01% of 492,025 correct?

Another example:

400/400 = 1

which means 400 is 1% of 400, correct?