{"id":44302,"date":"2022-01-20T11:21:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T16:21:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=44302"},"modified":"2022-01-20T11:21:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-20T16:21:59","slug":"the-numbers-are-in-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=44302","title":{"rendered":"The Numbers Are In"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/politics-policy\/coronavirus\/new-research-suggests-covid-was-less-deadly-thought-first-year-pandemic\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just the News<\/a> posted an article about the first year of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>COVID-19 was less lethal across nearly every age group in its first full year than previously thought, according to an updated review of global research from Stanford University&#8217;s Meta-Research Innovation Center (METRIC).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Between summer and Christmas 2021, METRIC&#8217;s estimates of deaths from infection fell by half in multiple age groups, including young people, and less sharply in others.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The international estimates, which have not been peer-reviewed, are not substantially different from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/coronavirus\/2019-ncov\/hcp\/planning-scenarios.html\">CDC&#8217;s own &#8220;best estimate<\/a>&#8221; of COVID mortality in the U.S., last updated in March. They use different age ranges, making exact comparisons difficult.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The findings raise questions about ongoing COVID restrictions and mandates, particularly for schoolchildren and college students, who remain at the lowest overall risk from infection.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The risk-benefit ratio of vaccine boosters is also under scrutiny, with <a href=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/government\/federal-agencies\/international-authorities-sour-covid-boosters-while-fda-promotes-them\">international authorities souring on their wide deployment<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/01\/17\/health\/israel-fourth-dose-early-data\/index.html\">new Israeli study<\/a> finding that a fourth dose of the Pfizer or Moderna vaccines doesn&#8217;t stop the Omicron variant.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article includes the following screenshot:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CovidMortalityTweet.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-44304 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CovidMortalityTweet.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"492\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CovidMortalityTweet.jpg 492w, https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/CovidMortalityTweet-252x300.jpg 252w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 492px) 100vw, 492px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t mean to be flip, and I say this as someone who is over 70, but your chances of dying from almost anything increase after age 70, and that&#8217;s not news.<\/p>\n<p>The article also notes something that our government and its medical tyrants have chosen to overlook:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>Using medical claims records from Change Healthcare and a study population &#8220;fully vaccinated&#8221; last spring, the researchers found subsequent hospitalization least likely for Moderna and highest for Johnson &amp; Johnson vaccine recipients.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>But hospitalization was 50% lower and risk of death 75% lower among those with natural immunity &#8220;independent of age, sex, comorbidities, and vaccine type,&#8221; the study found.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Natural immunity is the best protection. If Omicron is a mild coronavirus and provides us that protection, then we are done with the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Just a note&#8211;someone I know who is involved with a large organization told me that the organization currently has 85 coronavirus cases&#8211;5 of those are unvaccinated. None or those 85 cases required hospitalization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, Just the News posted an article about the first year of the coronavirus pandemic. The article reports: COVID-19 was less lethal across nearly every age group in its first full year than previously thought, according to an updated &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=44302\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12501,12808,12498,6582],"class_list":["post-44302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-coronavirus","tag-coronavirus-deaths","tag-just-the-news","tag-stanford-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44305,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44302\/revisions\/44305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}