Subject: It's not just the mortality rate that matters. We don't kno

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See Original Content on OpEdNews in article titled "Flu Misinformation and Coronavirus Fears: Robert Kennedy Jr's Letter to CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta"

It's not just the mortality rate that matters. We don't know what that is really, because we don't know the real denominator (the number of people who have contracted the disease, including those who are asymptomatic "spreaders"), and we don't know the real numerator either (the number who have died of the disease," because in both cases, we don't have a significant number of tests. Many people have died because of the disease and have not been diagnosed as having had it. It is known to cause strokes, which are listed as cause of death, heart damage and death, which is listed as the cause of death, pneumonia infections (flu, bacterial pneumonia etc. which opportunistically infect corona patients), and then the cause of death is found to be the secondary infection. All of this is because we have not had adequate infection. To just look at studies saying more people have the disease than we thought isn't enough to say it's a trivial infection. What we do know is that over a very short time 2.6 million people globally have caught the disease and 190,000 have died. 850,000 or a third of those, are in the US, as are 30,000 of the deaths -- about a sixth of the total. That is a significant disease, and if immunity is not obtained from the infection or if it is short-lived, as some fear, then it's even more serious. The failure to get more tests and more masks is criminal! (My mother in law is dying of the disease, and my niece's husband, an ER doc, contracted it, but is recovered thankfully.