Comments by "" (@TheHuxleyAgnostic) on "Are COVID Death Rates WILDLY Inflated?" video.

Australia's covid death rate would translate into about 26k total US covid deaths, instead of approaching 800k. They're doing fantastic.
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It doesn't take "balls" to compare hospitalization rates per total population, to death rates per total confirmed cases. It takes pure stupidity, or dishonesty.
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@egobrain6826 If he knows full well that the hospitalization rates are based on total population ... because he 100% totally read the article, and he 100% isn't a lying grifter, or a moron ... then the number he would be comparing is the 800k deaths in a 330m total population, which is a population mortality rate of 0.24%. There's nothing incompatible with a 0.24% population mortality rate a 0.9% population hospitalization rate. It means about a quarter of those hospitalized die. The hospitalization rate for those with covid has been estimated up to 5%. Nothing incompatible with that and the current US case fatality rate of 1.5%, or the covid infection fatality rate, which has been estimated at about 1% all along. The infection fatality rate would suggest that 800k deaths means that there have actually been about 80m infected Americans (many of those missed are probably because the US testing rate - tests per confirmed case - has been pathetically low). A 0.9% hospitalization rate for the total population, is about 3m hospitalizations, which is a 3.75% hospitalization rate based on total estimated infected, and a 5.63% hospitalization rate based on confirmed cases. The 1% infection fatality rate is close to a quarter of the 3.75% infection hospitalization rate. The 1.5% case fatality rate is close to a quarter of the 5.63% case hospitalization rate. All the numbers are quite compatible. If anything, Dore's Gallup numbers help confirm all the others are fairly accurate. He's just stupid, or dishonest, as are you.
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@egobrain6826 No. If the hospitalizations rates, you're going to go dig up "death rates" to compare to, are based on total population, then the only honest comparison is the overall population mortality rate. They very clearly started with the Gallup article. To compare infection fatality rates to population hospitalization rates would be equally stupid, or dishonest. Ahh, no, the infection fatality rate is about 1%, for developed countries. If you want to compare them to countries with a life expectancy of 55, then that's also dishonest, or stupid.
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@egobrain6826 No. He was obviously starting with the hospitalization rates in a newer Gallup article, then went searching for the covid "death rate", and somehow couldn't find any from the past year and a half. If you're starting with hospitalization rates of the total population, then the comparable "death rate" is the overall population mortality rate. "October 30, 2020 -- A new study conducted by researchers at Imperial College London found the COVID-19 infection fatality ratio is about 1.15% of infected people in high-income nations and 0.23% in low-income nations." "The disparity between high and low-income nations is due largely to facts that high-income nations tend to have larger number of elderly in their populations whereas low-income nations’ population tend to skew youngers." Averaging developed countries with countries that have a life expectancies of 55, is nonsensical.
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