Essential Facts About Covid-19
Essential Facts About Covid-19 By James D. Agresti December 10, 2020 Updated 12/11/20 Overview Given the spread of misinformation about Covid-19, Just Facts is providing a trove of rigorously documented facts about this disease and its impacts. These include some essential facts that have been absent or misreported in much of the media’s coverage of this issue. This research also includes a groundbreaking study to determine the lethality of Covid-19 based on the most comprehensive available measure: the total years of life that it will rob from all people. This accords with the CDC’s tenet that “the allocation of health resources must consider not only the number of deaths by cause” but also the “years of potential life lost.” The CDC emphasizes that the Covid-19 pandemic is still “a rapidly evolving situation,” and as such, the emboldened figures in this article will be updated each weekday as the CDC publishes new data. Other facts that inform the broader picture will be