From Florida's "experiment in human sacrifice" (NYT ) to Cuomo's elevation to sainthood, the press has completely botched this pandemic and deliberately sowed panic.

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(Photo: Associated Press)

(Photo: Associated Press)

From Florida to South Dakota to North Carolina to Texas, states that relaxed their shut-down orders were denounced and ridiculed by the media (that those states’ governors were all Republicans was surely merely coincidental to that press’s reaction), yet, now that the predicted death toll hasn’t appeared, that meme has disappeared down the memory hole, and now that the “flattening the curve” argument has proved unfounded, the media and its favorite governors have turned their attention to a new justification for continuing the lockdown, the impending “Second Wave”.

There was an early precursor to that hysterical, anti-Trump reporting: Remember the headlines when Trump predicted we’d see a far lower death rate that the WHO and Dr. Faluci were predicting? I do; the media doesn’t.

[B]ack in March, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimated a 3.4 percent fatality rate and Dr. Anthony Fauci estimated that the fatality rate of the coronavirus was about 2 percent.

President Trump was skeptical of both those numbers, particularly the WHO’s estimate: “Well, I think the 3.4 percent is really a false number,” Trump told Sean Hannity. “Now, and this is just my hunch, and — but based on a lot of conversations with a lot of people that do this. Because a lot of people will have this and it’s very mild. They’ll get better very rapidly. They don’t even see a doctor. They don’t even call a doctor. I think that that number is very high. I think the number, personally, I would say the number is way under 1 percent.”

Now, this:

Several studies have suggested that Trump was right. But, now here’s what the CDC is saying about the fatality rate the coronavirus:

  • 0-49 years old: .05%

  • 50-64 years old: .2%

  • 65+ years old: 1.3%

  • Overall ages: .4%

According to the CDC’s current best estimate, the case fatality rate of the coronavirus is .4 percent. And that’s just amongst symptomatic cases, which, the CDC estimates, is 65 percent of all cases. This means the CDC estimates that the fatality rate for all infections across all age groups, symptomatic as well as asymptomatic, is approximately .26 percent.