CDC bad at math: Calls 0.1% "Less than 10 percent"

[sd_shooter]

The federal propaganda arm has come out and issued a startling truth.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/cdc-misleads-calls-01-percent-chance-of-infection-less-than-10-percent/

Lies, damned lies, and statistics

[TTT]

Why are you killing Grandma?

COVID FREAKOUT FOREVER!!

[jimmykan]

Well, I mean... 0.1% IS less than 10%

[alpha_romeo_XV]

Reminds me of the Soviet propoganda re race to put a man on the moon. USSR 2nd place USA next to last.

[SAN compnerd]

Translation to the OP title: The CDC lied for over a year for political purposes while ignoring the science.

[2shotjoe]

well, at less then 100% of calgunners agree with you.

[bigbossman]

Translation to the OP title: The CDC lied for over a year for political purposes while ignoring the science.

At this point, is this really a surprise to anyone anymore?

[Mikeywee]

At this point, is this really a surprise to anyone anymore?

[M76]

Well, I mean... 0.1% IS less than 10%

it's closer to less than 1%, hence the deception...

[theLBC]

Centers for Deceptive Crap and Propaganda?

the cdc has a flu reporting network called FluSurv-NET.
this is a number of places scattered about the US that is "representative" of the entire country.
the cdc gets their flu numbers every year from this network, and they make projections and estimates from these numbers.
in 2019 they tested 1.3 million for seasonal flu. these are folks with fever that are sick enough to visit a doctor or emergency room (within that network)
only about 19% or 242k actually had the flu
of those, 24k had to be admitted to hospital.
of those, about 2400 died, or 1% of the positive flu cases.

from these numbers, the cdc says between 30-50 million americans had the flu, and the death rate was 0.05%? somebody check my math.

During the 2019-2020 influenza season, CDC estimates that influenza was associated with 38 million illnesses, 18 million medical visits, 405,000 hospitalizations, and 22,000 deaths.Oct 6, 2020

something is funny with their math, or it should be 380k deaths.

[LBDamned]

it's closer to less than 1%, hence the deception...

It's even closer to half a percent...

I'll leave the next "closer" for the next guy...

[CGT80]

That works out to 10%..........10% is correct......10% of that 1% chance that is. In other words, they were only exaggerating by 100x.

[theLBC]

masks could be effective in preventing more than 0.000000005% of the cases.

[WOODY2]

I would venture that since they managed to convince the masses that Biden got more votes than any other presidential candidate in history they could be loose in any future numerical declarations?

[sfe187]

"CDC bad at math: Calls 0.1% "Less than 10 percent"

I hope head of CDC is not Asian