Writing at Townhall, Bronson Stocking draws some interesting conclusions about deaths from Covid-19, using Center for Disease Control statistics.
Out of the 161,392 deaths in the CDC data, just six percent, about 9,700 deaths, were attributed to the coronavirus alone. According to the CDC, the other 94 percent had an average of 2.6 additional conditions or causes of deaths, such as heart disease, diabetes, and sepsis.
There, doesn't that make you feel better? Not, of course, if you've got several comorbidities.
Basically, it says if you're healthy, or mostly so, the Chinese virus likely won't kill you. It has killed roughly 1 of every 33,000 healthy Americans. Those are excellent odds of survival, but no guarantee you won't get sick, unfortunately, which is ugly even when not fatal.
Later ... It is worth noting that the various strains of influenza are also more likely to kill those with comorbidities, as is pneumonia. Think of these contagions as resembling wolves chasing a herd of caribou, they tend to catch and kill those which are weakened by illness or injury. The healthy caribou mostly escape, just as otherwise healthy humans mostly survive respiratory infections.
