Trump Diagnosis, Recovery Reveals America’s Two Competing Covid Myths
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Trump Diagnosis, Recovery Reveals America’s Two Competing Covid Myths

This isn’t about scientific facts anymore. It’s about narrative.

Spencer Klavan

If you scroll through reams of text on the CDC page entitled “COVID-19 Pandemic Planning Scenarios” (and hoo boy, you really do have to scroll), you will find that the novel coronavirus kills those whom it infects at the following rates (the Infection Fatality Ratio):

19 years of age or younger: 0.003% chance of death

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