Reopening Is Not a Failure | National Review

First they spread fear, but what they are not telling you is most of those coming down with the virus are young people, death rates are actually going down. Face it there are only two ways for this virus to be defeated, one is so many people become infected that is becomes less and less likely that it will be passed around or they develop the vaccine and everyone gets the vaccine.

I agree with your statement, Lt Col Charlie Brown! The statistics are being severely manipulated to serve the needs of unscrupulous power hungry politicians and ALL PEOPLE SHOULD TAKE NOTE!!!
Here is an excerpt from the CDC regarding the 2018/2019 FLu Season as a comparison. (Note this is with an available vaccine):
This web page provides estimates on the burden of influenza in the United States for the 2018–2019 influenza season. For the past several years, CDC has estimated the numbers of influenza illnesses, medical visits, hospitalizations, and deaths 1–4. The methods used to calculate the estimates have been described previously. CDC uses the estimates of the burden of influenza in the population to inform policy and communications related to influenza.

2018-2019 Estimates
Influenza activity in the United States during the 2018–2019 season began to increase in November and remained at high levels for several weeks during January–February. Influenza A viruses were the predominant circulating viruses last year. While influenza A(H1N1pdm09) viruses predominated from October 2018 – mid February 2019, influenza A(H3N2) viruses were more commonly reported starting in late February 2019. Influenza B viruses were not commonly reported among circulating viruses during the 2018–2019 season. The season had moderate severity based on levels of outpatient influenza-like illness, hospitalizations rates, and proportions of pneumonia and influenza-associated deaths.

CDC estimates that the burden of illness during the 2018–2019 season included an estimated 35.5 million people getting sick with influenza, 16.5 million people going to a health care provider for their illness, 490,600 hospitalizations, and 34,200 deaths from influenza (Table 1). The number of influenza-associated illnesses that occurred last season was similar to the estimated number of influenza-associated illnesses during the 2012–2013 influenza season when an estimated 34 million people had symptomatic influenza illness.

Peak activity during the 2018–2019 influenza season was classified as having moderate severity across ages in the population. Compared with the 2017–2018 season , which was classified as high severity, the overall rates and burden of influenza were much lower during the 2018–2019 season (Table 2). Among children, however, rates of influenza during the 2018–2019 season were similar to the 2017–2018 season. In addition, the 2018–2019 season had two waves of activity, including a wave predominated by influenza A(H1N1)pdm09 viruses and another wave of similar magnitude attributable to influenza A(H3N2) viruses. The dual waves resulted in a protracted season during 2018–2019 that was less severe when compared with peak activity in 2017–2018, but resulted in a similar burden of illness in children by the end of the season.

Conclusion
CDC estimates that influenza was associated with more than 35.5 million illnesses, more than 16.5 million medical visits, 490,600 hospitalizations, and 34,200 deaths during the 2018–2019 influenza season. This burden was similar to estimated burden during the 2012–2013 influenza season.
(https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html)

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