By Steve Sailer
09/10/2020
From CNN:
… the former vice president said there had been 6,114 “military Covid deaths” and 118,984 “military Covid [infections].”
Facts First: This is wrong — and not just by a little. Biden overstated the number of military Covid deaths by 6,107 and infections by nearly 79,000. There have been seven deaths in the military due to Covid-19 and 40,026 cases as of September 9, according to the Defense Department.
Wow, I did not know that: only 7.
So the Case Fatality Rate among US military personnel has been about 1 out of 6000.
The military has mandatory retirement ages and rules against being too fat, so personnel are much less likely to be old, fat, or sickly.
From the DoD:
| DOD COVID-19 Cumulative Totals | ||||||
| Cases | Hospitalized | Recovered | Deaths | CFR | CHR | |
| Military | 40,026 | 592 | 24,913 | 7 | 0.02% | 1.48% |
| Civilian | 8,882 | 357 | 5,394 | 55 | 0.62% | 4.02% |
| Dependent | 5,339 | 124 | 3,439 | 7 | 0.13% | 2.32% |
| Contractor | 3,811 | 170 | 2,334 | 21 | 0.55% | 4.46% |
| Total | 58,058 | 1,243 | 36,080 | 90 | 0.16% | 2.14% |
| As of 0600, Sept. 9, 2020 | ||||||
CFR is Case Fatality Rate or deaths per officially recorded cases. CHR is Case Hospitalization Rate.
The CHR for Military isn’t super low (1.48%), but the CFR rate is almost negligible (0.02%).
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