Hospital Death Rates (COVID v. Flu)

Post #678

At the CDC page for flu burden, you can divide flu deaths by flu hospitalizations to obtain an overall flu hospitalization death rate. From 2012 going forward, the rates go from 7% up to 11%. For the 2014/2015 season, deaths were 51,376 and hospitalizations were 590,869 — resulting in a flu hospital death rate of ( 51376/590869= ) 8.7%.

But when researchers tracked 555 U.S. medical centers for 6 months from March 2020 to August 2020, they found a decreasing COVID hospital death rate. Using those first 6 months and a power model, I made projections on the COVID hospital death rate going forward:

By Month 24 (February 2022), if projections held true, then the COVID hospital death rate would have been down to just 3%. Month 20 is of interest, because that one is for October 2021, when CDC reported that 28% of breakthrough hospitalization patients died. That post-jab hospital death rate is much higher than the projected 3% to 4%.

There isn’t even enough room on the chart above to map a value of 28% death, indicating that COVID shots increase your chance of dying if hospitalized for COVID.