COVID and the CDC

July 7, 2020 By Robert L. Kinney III

Some have rightly noted the double standard shown by numerous public health officials and politicians regarding “social distancing.” Were public health officials indicating that COVID-19 is not as dangerous as originally stated by their apparent approval of rioting throughout America?

Multiple statistics can be provided here to answer the question and show that SARS-CoV-2, the virus which causes COVID-19, is not the “threat to all Americans” that it has been made out to be. One need not be an epidemiologist to arrive at this conclusion. The United States Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and others have provided criteria to determine the severity of a “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome” (SARS) virus. One needs only to evaluate the facts from the standpoint of the severity criteria.

The “SARS” in “SARS-CoV-2” stands for “severe acute respiratory syndrome” (which is sometimes also referred to as “acute respiratory distress syndrome” or “adult respiratory distress syndrome”). When the virus was first reportedly discovered, the panic and hysteria propagated by public health officials was supposedly due to their belief that the SARS-CoV-2 virus would cause millions of people to experience pneumonia, acute respiratory distress syndrome, and death. During the initial outbreak of SARS-CoV-2, the CDC was suggesting that the expected sequences of events leading to death in COVID-19 patients would be viral pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome..

How does one determine the severity, danger, or threat to society that a SARS virus poses? In the past, the the CDC determined the severity of a SARS virus  by looking at evidence and incidence of pneumonia and acute respiratory distress syndrome. A SARS case was designated to be “severe respiratory illness” if a patient had the following............  Read more