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1. True or False: COVID-19 is now the leader of death in the United States.
False. It’s not even close. As of July 25, the most recent date for which Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data is available, there were 135,579 deaths related to the contagion, less than 1% of the more than 1.5 million deaths that have occurred in the U.S. so far this year.
COVID-19 is not even the leading cause of death among the elderly, although it accounts for more than 9% of deaths among others over the age of 65. Cancer and diseases at the center continue to cause the most victims in this age group, while unintentional injuries cause the highest number of deaths among others under the age of 45.
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2. True or False: The U.S. has the highest COVID-19 death rate in the world.
False. As of Aug. 3, there were 158,706 COVID-19-related deaths nationally, according to Worldometer’s data, the most in the world. But with a population of 330 million, the U.S. is also among the world’s most populous.
The more accurate metric of comparison is the COVID-19 death rate per million population. By that standard, the U.S. ranks eighth among countries with populations of 1 million or more, behind Belgium, the U.K., Spain, Peru, Italy, Sweden, and Chile.
3. True or False: The U.S. has more confirmed cases than any other country because it has tested much more extensively than any other country.
False. As of August 2, the United States had conducted approximately 181,000 tests consistent with millions of people. This puts us ninth in the world, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Denmark, United Kingdom, Singapore, Russia, Lithuania and Israel. All of these countries, with the exception of Bahrain, reported fewer cases consistent with millions of other people than the United States.
4. According to the CDC, how many young people under the age of 15 had died of COVID-19 as of July 25?
(a) 42; b) 420; (c) 4,200; d) 42,000
(a) Of the 135,579 COVID-19-related deaths known through the CDC as of July 25, 42 were for young people under the age of 15. This represents approximately 0.3% of deaths in this age group.
COVID-19 is even one of the 10 most sensible reasons for death among school and preschoolers. Ironically, while young people under the age of 15 account for less than 1% of deaths due to COVID-19 and the elderly account for 80% of deaths, public debate focuses on reopening schools and securing retirement homes.
5. True or false: Sweden, the only country in Europe that has not imposed a blockade, has suffered more COVID-19-related deaths on a demographic basis than any other European country.
False. Supporters of the blockades have denounced Sweden’s refusal to impose them on its population, predicting an epidemic of medieval proportions.
The number of confirmed cases in Sweden peaked on June 24 (later than in most European lockdown countries) and has declined sharply ever since. Sweden has had fewer COVID-19 deaths per million population than Belgium, the U.K., Spain, and Italy, all of whom deployed widespread lockdowns.
6. True or False: COVID-19 deaths in Florida now rival those in New York.
False. If it’s wrong, in smart company. Dr. Deborah Birx, head of the White House Coronavirus Task, recently announced that the sunshine state, along with Texas and California, is now one of the “three New Yorkers.”
It’s a distortion.
The virus is spreading among Floridians, and the number of COVID-19-related deaths has been rising and will continue to do so. But as of Aug. 1, Florida’s deaths-per-million population (327) ranked below the U.S. average (475) and well below the rates in New York State (1,685) and the neighboring states of New Jersey (1,790) and Connecticut (1,243).
Equipping situations in Florida this summer with new York and Northeast last spring is reckless.
In fact, the list of counties with the maximum number of deaths due to coronavirus repair has not replaced much since last April, according to USAFacts.org. Eight of the 10 counties that killed the U.S. By the end of April they were still at the highest sensitivity of 10 at the end of July.
New York City and the surrounding counties of New Jersey and Long Island occupied 8 of the seats on April 30 and still occupied six on July 31, adding 3 of the five most sensitive. Only one of Birx’s “3 New York” counties, Los Angeles County, is on the list.
7. Wearing a mask: a) will save you from getting COVID-19; b) get sick; c) The previous two; or d) None of the above.
(d) Masks have acquired proportions in the public’s imagination.
“I think if we can get everyone to wear a mask now,” said CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield on July 15, “I think in four, six or eight weeks we could end this epidemic.”
First, there’s the vagueness of your forecasts. (Do you think it’s four, six, or eight weeks? What does “under control” mean?) Then there’s the utopian nature of the hypothetical (How would you make everyone wear a mask? all the time?) It suggests that Redfield makes some of the unfounded and spontaneous statements to which public fitness officials seem inclined.
On the other hand, social media resonates with warnings that mask the oxygen frame. So will dressing in a mask save you from a bout of inflammation or plunge you into a hypoxia stupor?
Or.
“Masks may help prevent people who have COVID-19 from spreading the virus to others,” according to the CDC. They don’t protect the mask-wearer, but they may protect others from the mask-wearer.
The CDC says that dressing in a mask “may” have this effect because clinical certainty is not possible. You cannot conduct a well-controlled experiment that provides clinical evidence that the mask’s help saves you from spreading the coronavirus.
If there’s no definitive proof that masks work, why wear them? Mostly, commonsense. Scientists seem fairly certain that COVID-19 is spread by droplets, although there’s some evidence it’s present in aerosols. Either way, it’s on our breaths.
There is also evidence that other people who do not know they are inflamed can pass the disease on to others. By imposing a physical barrier, mask the speed and diffusion of our breaths. This is the idea of the threat that a user who does not know that he or she is spreading the virus will spread the infection.
Therefore, it is a smart concept to use one, unless you faint.
8. True or false: 20% of Americans had coronavirus.
False. A survey of 1,000 Americans through foreign survey company Kekst CNC found that the maximum of us the virus has inflamed 20% of the population.
As of Aug. 2, Johns Hopkins University had tallied nearly 4.7 million cases, or about 1.4% of the U.S. population. Of course, many COVID-19 cases go undiagnosed, so the survey respondents may not be as far off as they seem.
It should also be noted that Americans are not the only ones overestimating the scale of the pandemic in their country. The same poll found that others in the UK, Germany, France and Sweden also overestimated the percentage of their compatriots who had contracted the disease.
9. True or false: all people, regardless of age, who contract coronavirus are also at risk of serious illness and death.
False. COVID-19 is a serious disease basically in the elderly, especially in nursing homes.
As of July 25, the CDC’s highest recent public awareness indicates that others over the age of 65 and over are guilty of 80% of COVID-19 deaths, accounting for less than 17% of the population.
People under forty-five (58% of the population) account for less than 3% of coronavirus deaths.
A recent review by researchers at Syracuse University tried harder, as the threat of mortality from age-related coronavirus infection should be estimated. Researchers used knowledge from studies around the world to estimate the amount of other people inflamed with coronavirus.
This organization is larger than the number of other people who tested positive for contagion. They found that the infection mortality rate, the percentage of others who have been inflamed with the virus (including those who have never been tested) who die, is very different for young people and older adults.
“The estimated [infection mortality rate] is close to 0 for young people and young adults,” they concluded, “but increases exponentially with age, reaching approximately 0.3% for those aged 50 to 59, 1% for those aged 60 to 69, 4% for 70 to 79 and 24% for 80 and over.”
10. True or false: According to Syracuse University researchers themselves, a user under the age of forty-five involved in a twist of the destination is 3 times more likely to die than a user from the same age organization that hires COVID-19.
True. This examines in comparison the relative threat of death from a turn of fatal injury and coronavirus infection. The authors estimate that other people under the age of forty-five who have a rotation of the injury of fate caused by anything other than a turn of a car’s fate have 0.03% (3 chances out of every 10,000) of dying from that injury, compared to a 0.01% chance of dying (1 in 10,000) if contracted by COVID-19. People in this age organization who are concerned about the shift in traffic from fate have a similar death threat at 10,000.
Evaluate yourself
0-4 correct: mediocre. Don’t blame yourself. He trusted CNN, the New York Times or similar resources for his COVID-19 information.
5-7 correct: Not bad. You understand the pandemic better than most.
8-9 correct: Very good. Getting just one or two questions wrong probably ranks you among the most knowledgeable Americans.
10 correct: Excellent. If you’re not too attached to your day job, you might want to apply to run the White House coronavirus task force.
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