Majority of Americans with 'conservative news diet' believe coronavirus no more deadly than seasonal flu, new poll shows

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Health experts estimate that the coronavirus is at least 10 to 20 times more deadly than the common seasonal flu.

"So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on," Trump tweeted on March 9.

But Trump's tone has changed significantly in recent days. During a White House press briefing last Tuesday, the president said that"a lot of people" had previously compared coronavirus to the flu. Trump said that people had suggested:"Ride it out, don't do anything, just ride it out and think of it as the flu."The overall death rate from the coronavirus remains unclear. As of early Thursday afternoon, there were about 1.

But health experts have noted that there are almost certainly many cases of coronavirus that have gone uncounted. Some individuals never show any symptoms, despite having contracted the virus. Additionally, a large number of individuals only experience mild symptoms. These people may never get tested and may not even be aware that they could have the coronavirus.

The death rate has also appeared to vary between countries. Analysts have noted that this could be due to a lack of testing. Many countries have struggled to adequately test their populations, meaning that often only the sickest patients get tested and are confirmed to have the virus. There could be a large number of sick individuals with mild cases that have been left uncounted in official totals.

 

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All the people who fit into that category of having a 'conservative news diet' had a word invented in the English Language just for them...LOSERS!!

To Newsweek: Coronavirus death 4,900 to date - - - Abortion’s (2016) 623,000. Cvirus deaths had a chance for survival, abortions % of survival, big fat 0.

I remember living in postwar Germany. Germans still thought Hitler was not all that bad. The Mind is a curious thing.

Idiots

Just goes to show simple minded people just love misinformation.

Ok, so why don’t we continue to practice the correct infection control procedures recommended by the scientific experts during this pandemic

Pathetic!

Always find these kinds of people in every society a

Cults drink the kool-aid.

That would include my niece and pilot husband with 5 kids. Really angry about shut down 🙃

Now your bubble can kill you!

How ignorant & uninformed. This is what happens when the President of the United States refers to the media as “ fake news”. DT should be held accountable. factsmatter TruthMatters voteDTout2020

It’s sad to think those particular people just think the reporting of nearly 800 deaths per day in some of these large cities is just fake news.

Fox needs dropped every eheee cuz they are literally killing this country

They’re easily identifiable. They’re the ones in public who aren’t wearing a mask. Ignorance can be deadly.

Then let them all go to work

Bunches of stupid

Never underestimate the challenge of trying to have an educated and informed conversation with people who get all of their information from a a single news organization and one that’s been objectively proven to create the most misinformed viewers.

Let them keep thinking that so we can shave off more of these idiots.

A majority of idiots.

How many die of flu everyday? 2000? Be real

Bless their hearts....

Majority of Americans still dumb

Yep...they drank the poison.

Wash hands, clean surfaces, stop watching or reading fake news.

Shocking, idiots

You’d have to be willfully ignorant to have such views.

I don't watch conservative news but at this point I don't think anyone knows how deadly this virus is. I imagine that there are millions of people infected right now who couldn't get a test or don't even know.

This also in... Sky is blue Grass may be, in fact, green

Fox News? Former Fox News analyst Lt. Colonel Ralph Peters: 'People that only listen to Fox have an utterly skewed view of reality. 'Fox isn't immoral, it's amoral'

Maybe they’ll believe it as they’re lying on their death beds.

We. Have. A. Vaccine. For. Seasonal. Flu. Why is this so hard?

And they are jeopardizing others.

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