We know that for every 100 cases 97 recover, or suffer mild to non-existent symptoms. The three that don’t are most always older folks.
No, we don't know that.
Yes we do.
For every 1000 cases 970 recover. To be precise the actual death rate is .03165055 ( worldwide.03608491)
Lockdowns were unnecessary knee-jerk reactions that only caused an increase in pain and suffering due to other maladies and stopped a roaring economy and doomed the poorest among us to misery and joblessness.
"recover"
The DEATH rate is not the only thing in operation, dimwit!
It's as if you have been ignoring the other research that has been posted here by folks because it doesn't fit your view of things. But let's start with your 3% bullshit:
CLOSED CASES
15,015,567
Cases which had an outcome:
14,249,356 (95%)
Recovered / Discharged
766,211 (5%) Deaths
The percentage of deaths from completed cases worldwide is 5.1, not your number. My source is Worldometers dot com. In the US it is 5.64% deaths among completed cases.
Without the lockdown, many more people would have gotten the virus and therefore died. Clearly, from your inane statement that "Lockdowns were unnecessary," you don't think 200,000 American deaths or a million around the globe was enough and you wanted more.
Eat shit.
Lockdowns were not only necessary, but discontinuing them too early has caused tens of thousands if not 150,000, needless deaths. You should be proud.
But now, as the late conservative pundit used to say,
the rest of the story.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/coronavirus/what-coronavirus-does-to-the-lungsLike other respiratory illnesses, COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, can cause lasting lung damage. As we continue to learn about COVID-19, we’re understanding more regarding how it affects the lungs while people are sick and after recovery.
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COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus, can cause lung complications such as pneumonia and, in the most severe cases, acute respiratory distress syndrome, or ARDS. Sepsis, another possible complication of COVID-19, can also cause lasting harm to the lungs and other organs.
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The pneumonia that COVID-19 causes tends to take hold in both lungs. Air sacs in the lungs fill with fluid, limiting their ability to take in oxygen and causing shortness of breath, cough and other symptoms.
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While most people recover from pneumonia without any lasting lung damage, the pneumonia associated with COVID-19 may be severe. Even after the disease has passed, lung injury may result in breathing difficulties that might take months to improve.
Whether it occurs at home or at the hospital, ARDS can be fatal. People who survive ARDS and recover from COVID-19 may have lasting pulmonary scarring.
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Sepsis occurs when an infection reaches, and spreads through, the bloodstream, causing tissue damage everywhere it goes.
“Lungs, heart and other body systems work together like instruments in an orchestra,” Galiatsatos says. “In sepsis, the cooperation between the organs falls apart. Entire organ systems can start to shut down, one after another, including the lungs and heart.”
Sepsis, even when survived, can leave a patient with lasting damage to the lungs and other organs.
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Is COVID-19 lung damage reversible?
After a serious case of COVID-19, a patient’s lungs can recover, but not overnight. “Recovery from lung damage takes time,” Galiatsatos says. “There’s the initial injury to the lungs, followed by scarring. Over time, the tissue heals, but it can take three months to a year or more for a person’s lung function to return to pre-COVID-19 levels.”
He notes that doctors and patients alike should be prepared for continuing treatment and therapy.
“Once the pandemic is over, there will be a group of patients with new health needs: the survivors. Doctors, respiratory therapists and other health care providers will need to help these patients recover their lung function as much as possible.”
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/07/brain-fog-heart-damage-covid-19-s-lingering-problems-alarm-scientistsFrom Brain Fog to Heart Damage, COVID-19 Survivors Have Lingering Problems that Alarm ScientistsBut wait... how
many of those who did not die from COVID-19 had inflamed hearts or other issues?!
WE DON'T KNOW, no matter how much you insist you know.
The list of lingering maladies from COVID-19 is longer and more varied than most doctors could have imagined. Ongoing problems include fatigue, a racing heartbeat, shortness of breath, achy joints, foggy thinking, a persistent loss of sense of smell, and damage to the heart, lungs, kidneys, and brain.
The likelihood of a patient developing persistent symptoms is hard to pin down because different studies track different outcomes and follow survivors for different lengths of time. One group in Italy found that 87% of a patient cohort hospitalized for acute COVID-19 was still struggling 2 months later. Data from the COVID Symptom Study, which uses an app into which millions of people in the United States, United Kingdom, and Sweden have tapped their symptoms, suggest 10% to 15% of people—including some “mild” cases—don’t quickly recover. But with the crisis just months old, no one knows how far into the future symptoms will endure, and whether COVID-19 will prompt the onset of chronic diseases.
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