“Just the facts, ma’am.”
This saying is attributed to Police Sergeant Joe Friday on the popular television series “Dragnet,” though Friday actually said, “All we want are the facts, ma’am.”
Friday and his partner made evidence and facts the center of their investigations before drawing conclusions.
Today facts in our public square are as difficult to come by as toilet paper during the first month of the pandemic.
On August 29, writer Joe Hoft reported on the release of the latest statistics on coronavirus deaths from the Center for Disease Control.
Hoft relates that of all those who died testing positive for this virus, only 9,210 Americans succumbed from the virus alone.
Skeptical, I headed to the CDC website to check out Hoft’s statistics.
There the latest report states that only 6 percent of Americans, a figure in line with Hoft’s numbers, have died of coronavirus without any other cause of death: “For 6% of the deaths, COVID-19 was the only cause mentioned.
For deaths with conditions or causes in addition to COVID-19, on average, there were 2.6 additional conditions or causes per death.”
So fewer than 10,000 Americans have died solely from COVID-19, and most of the others had not just one comorbidity, but several.
Though all deaths from COVID bring grief to friends and family members, the percentage of deaths from the virus alone is statistically insignificant.
It’s less than .00333 percent of our population.
I was blown away.
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