Inane Disinformation - Amazingly Stupid !

 A friend sent this to me.

        "​UCLA And Stanford Study Finds That For The Average

        50-64 Year Old The Chances Of Dying From COVID-19

        Are Just 1 In 19 MILLION... - Now Read That Again"

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I read it again. Just 1 in 19 MILLION !  Hard to believe! The source is a video 

prepared by One American News Network. 

Click to view the video:

https://www.oann.com/ucla-stanford-study-finds-for-average-50-64-year-old-chances-of-dying-from-covid-19-are-1-in-19-1m/

To show how stupid this is look at the table below prepared by the CDC. We will use the numbers from the 55-64 group, which is five years less than the group the OAN Video used. 

CDC says there are 42,272,636 people in this age group. 

According to OAN, there would only be 2 or 3 people dead from Covid-19 from this group. (42,272,636/19,000,000).

CDC says there are 22,254 dead from Covid-19 from this group. 

So how many people listen or read this drivel and decide they don't have to be careful about the disease since there is very little risk?  And then die?  

A friend of mine laughed and said that there is no loss to the human gene pool when people this slow follow this crap and then die from it. But I think that is wrong. We should try to protect them from themselves.  But it is difficult.

Mind boggling!  Sad!

Table 1. Deaths involving coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), pneumonia, and influenza reported to NCHS by sex and age group. United States. Week ending 2/1/2020 to 9/5/2020

Updated September 9, 2020

Sex	Age group	All Deaths involving COVID-19 (U07.1)1	Deaths from All Causes	Deaths involving Pneumonia, with or without COVID-19, excluding Influenza deaths (J12.0–J18.9)2	Deaths involving COVID-19 and Pneumonia, excluding Influenza (U07.1 and J12.0–J18.9)2	All Deaths involving Influenza, with or without COVID-19 or Pneumonia (J09–J11)3	Deaths involving Pneumonia, Influenza, or COVID-19 (U07.1 or J09–J18.9)4	Population5
Total
	All ages	175,866	1,894,447	180,095	78,446	6,671	283,199	327,167,434
	Under 1 year	19	10,513	99	3	16	131	3,848,208
	1–4 years	14	2,021	70	2	42	124	15,962,067
	5–14 years	29	3,110	94	8	52	167	41,075,169
	15–24 years	315	19,998	402	111	53	655	42,970,800
	25–34 years	1,360	41,370	1,513	606	151	2,404	45,697,774
	35–44 years	3,542	58,523	3,377	1,547	247	5,590	41,277,888
	45–54 years	9,324	107,903	8,747	4,292	577	14,251	41,631,699
	55–64 years	22,254	247,264	23,449	10,694	1,237	36,026	42,272,636
	65–74 years	37,684	374,953	39,742	17,965	1,444	60,671	30,492,316
	75–84 years	46,487	458,477	49,189	21,421	1,469	75,520	15,394,374
	85 years and over	54,838	570,315	53,413	21,797	1,383	87,660	6,544,503