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<blockquote data-quote="BrownFlush" data-source="post: 5022095" data-attributes="member: 65823">Not true you pile of brown dung. Healthy people die of covid.<h3>How many people are surviving COVID-19?</h3>Most people who get COVID-19 will survive. Of roughly 35.2 million confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, around 614,300 people, or 1.7%, have died, according to Johns Hopkins University’s mortality <a href="https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality" target="_blank">data</a> as of Aug 6.The CDC issues provisional death counts for COVID-19, but that data should not be used to infer a survival rate. <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/22/tweets/viral-tweet-cites-made-cdc-covid-19-survival-rates/" target="_blank">Experts say</a> that during a pandemic, it’s difficult to determine survival rates — such rates are usually calculated for a longer period of time, rather than as a snapshot.The <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/mortality-overview.htm" target="_blank">CDC data</a> shows that most people who have died from COVID-19, about 79%, have been people ages 65 and older. People between 45 and 64 years old account for about 18% of COVID-19 deaths, and people under 45 years account for 2.8% of such deaths, according to the CDC’s data as of Aug. 6.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BrownFlush, post: 5022095, member: 65823"] Not true you pile of brown dung. Healthy people die of covid. [HEADING=2]How many people are surviving COVID-19?[/HEADING] Most people who get COVID-19 will survive. Of roughly 35.2 million confirmed COVID-19 cases in the United States, around 614,300 people, or 1.7%, have died, according to Johns Hopkins University’s mortality [URL='https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality']data[/URL] as of Aug 6. The CDC issues provisional death counts for COVID-19, but that data should not be used to infer a survival rate. [URL='https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2020/dec/22/tweets/viral-tweet-cites-made-cdc-covid-19-survival-rates/']Experts say[/URL] that during a pandemic, it’s difficult to determine survival rates — such rates are usually calculated for a longer period of time, rather than as a snapshot. The [URL='https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/covid19/mortality-overview.htm']CDC data[/URL] shows that most people who have died from COVID-19, about 79%, have been people ages 65 and older. People between 45 and 64 years old account for about 18% of COVID-19 deaths, and people under 45 years account for 2.8% of such deaths, according to the CDC’s data as of Aug. 6. [/QUOTE]

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