{"id":342894,"date":"2020-04-08T16:09:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-08T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=342894"},"modified":"2020-04-08T17:09:26","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T21:09:26","slug":"death-model-reduced-90-since-we-heard-2-2-million","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2020\/04\/08\/death-model-reduced-90-since-we-heard-2-2-million\/","title":{"rendered":"Death Model Projection Drops from 2.2 Million to 60,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: We have more model movement today, ladies and gentlemen. &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/health\/2020\/04\/08\/ihme-model-lowers-u-s-coronavirus-death-projections-by-25-to-60415\/\">Projected coronavirus deaths in the United States were lowered by 25%<\/a> from 81,766 to 60,415 early Wednesday morning.&#8221; This is the Washington state model, the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, Chris Murray model, IHME. This has been the lead model from the get-go.<\/p>\n<p>This model is why we\u2019ve done what we\u2019ve done, plus the model from the U.K., <a href=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/daily\/2020\/03\/30\/the-doctors-and-the-perils-of-pandemic-modeling\/\">the Neil Ferguson model<\/a>. I forget the name of it off the top of my head. That\u2019s the model that predicted 2.2 million if we didn\u2019t do anything, and then they revised it. It was 2.2 million U.S., 500,000 U.K. if we didn\u2019t do anything, then they factored social distancing in the model, and the numbers went down to 200,000 from 2.2 million.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-342916 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-040820-Covid-Chart.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-040820-Covid-Chart.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-040820-Covid-Chart-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-040820-Covid-Chart-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>So that model has been used as well. But now &#8220;projections for coronavirus deaths in the U.S. by 25% from 81,766 to 60,415 early Wednesday morning. Wednesday\u2019s dramatic reverse in the model\u2019s projection of U.S. deaths was made without a press release from IHME explaining the reasons for the reduction.&#8221; So they just lowered the prediction, projection; they didn\u2019t tell anybody why.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It marks the second reduction in the model\u2019s U.S. deaths projections since April 1, when it forecast 93,765 U.S. fatalities.&#8221; It\u2019s now down to 60,000. What happened to 240,000? What happened to 100,000 to 200,000? What happened to 240,000? Now this model is predicting down to 60,415 &#8212; again, a 25% reduction in the models released just this morning.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now, folks, I want you to listen here to me because this is very important. I\u2019m gonna run through this. I\u2019ve got limited time. I\u2019ll do it again after the break at the bottom of the hour. I\u2019m gonna start with the original projection from both the Imperial College and the IHME: 2.2 million people dead, if we don\u2019t do anything. That was their projection. They put the number out there.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s a number we can use because they put it out there, and that was the starting point for all of this that\u2019s befallen us since. This morning they revised their number of projected deaths to 60,000. That is a reduction of 90% from the 2.2 million number. But what else? Does the number 60,000 &#8212; 60,000 deaths &#8212; does that resonate with any of you? Does the number 60,000 mean anything to you?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-342618 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-040720-Muarry-Model-BRIX.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-040720-Muarry-Model-BRIX.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-040720-Muarry-Model-BRIX-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-040720-Muarry-Model-BRIX-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Well, let me tell you what it is: 60,000 is the number of deaths due to the flu every year in this country. It\u2019s between 30,000 and 60,000. So the very projections from the modelers who have given us our current circumstances, including the lockdown have now reduced their original projection of 2.2 million down to 60,000. That\u2019s a reduction of 90%. Do you realize how worthless a model is you can input different data and get that wide a variance?<\/p>\n<p>But this is what the government\u2019s using. It\u2019s a 90% reduction from the original 2.2 million. It\u2019s their number. President Trump used it. Birx, Fauci, they all used it for a while, on purpose. It was to get everybody going on social distancing and mitigation. Now the latest projection today is 60,000 deaths, equal to the number of flu deaths. Hmm!<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: In fact, ladies and gentlemen, that 60,000 flu death number was 80,000 in 2018. It\u2019s a 2018 article: 80,000 people died&#8230; It\u2019s the 2017-2018 winter season; 80,000 people died from the flu. Now, before you all start getting on your high horse, I understand the difference in the flu and this thing. I understand that we\u2019ve got vaccines for various strains of the flu and we\u2019ve all, as a society, become accepting.<\/p>\n<p>We accept &#8212; whatever it is, 30,000, 60,000, 80,000 &#8212; deaths from the flu every year. We expect it, and it\u2019s just like the number of people we accept dying in automobile accidents. I understand that these projections on the coronavirus are based on everybody quarantining essentially, social distancing and all that because we don\u2019t have treatment and we don\u2019t have a vaccine and we don\u2019t have widespread testing.<\/p>\n<p>So I understand the difference. I\u2019m just trying to make the point here that we start out with a number of 2.2 million to scare the hell out of everybody, and it\u2019s used &#8212; and it\u2019s used by the experts, the officials. They put it out there, and it\u2019s from a model, Imperial College, if we do nothing. The corresponding number in the U.K. was 500,000 deaths if we do nothing. My point is that all along, the number was irrelevant.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-342854\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-040820-Covid-NY-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-040820-Covid-NY-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-040820-Covid-NY-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-040820-Covid-NY-1-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>We should have never used it because we never were gonna do nothing. We immediately instituted the lockdown, social distancing or whatever &#8212; &#8220;mitigation,&#8221; as the experts likes to say &#8212; and so that\u2019s what the numbers began to become 100,000, 200,000, 240,000. So even if you throw out the 2.2 million and stick with anywhere from 100,000 to 240,000, now they\u2019re down to 60,000, they\u2019re gonna claim&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Remember, these are the doomsayers. They never lose. They are never wrong. They can always claim that what they &#8220;doom-said&#8221; is the reason we\u2019ve had success. It\u2019s the nature of doomsayers. So they are now saying that the projected number of deaths as of this morning is down to 60,000. Now, 60,000 people die from the flu every year, 30 to 60; sometimes worse.<\/p>\n<p>It was worse with the swine flu &#8212; much worse &#8212; because there isn\u2019t any mitigation. People just go ahead and live their lives. If they get it, they get it. If they do, they do &#8212; and if they don\u2019t, they don\u2019t. Some of them get it and perish and some don\u2019t. We have not wanted to deal with coronavirus that way because there\u2019s no treatment for it &#8212; well, other than hydroxychloroquine, which the left is still attempting to ban and banish and ridicule and impugn.<\/p>\n<p>But there is no official test. They\u2019re coming. There is certainly no vaccine. But I just find it fascinating that we\u2019re now down to 60,000 deaths (with mitigation, I understand this), the same number of deaths, according to the flu.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Now in a story related to something I mentioned in the first half hour, and that is that many deaths that have nothing to do with and were not caused by COVID-19 are being chalked up to COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Birx said it. It\u2019s a key word here. &#8220;If someone dies with COVID-19, we are counting it as a COVID-19 death.&#8221; &#8220;With COVID-19&#8221; does not mean the same thing as &#8220;because of.&#8221; If you have coronary heart failure, if you have a heart attack, if you have renal failure, kidney failure, and you also have &#8212; if they find that you\u2019ve got &#8212; COVID-19, to heck with your heart disease, to heck with your kidney disease, they\u2019re chalking it up as a COVID-19 death.<\/p>\n<p>So it may well be that the number of COVID-19 deaths isn\u2019t as high as we\u2019re being told. But it\u2019s obvious there are people who want it to be reported as high because they think that\u2019ll help them with their mitigation efforts, keeping people sequestered and socially distanced and all of that.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-342580\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-040720-Covid-0095.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-040720-Covid-0095.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-040720-Covid-0095-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-040720-Covid-0095-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>From the Daily Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/nyc-data-vast-majority-who-have-died-from-coronavirus-had-serious-underlying-conditions\">&#8220;New York City Data: Vast Majority Who Have Died from Coronavirus Had Serious Underlying Conditions.&#8221;<\/a> Now, again, I don\u2019t want to be misunderstood. This in no way minimizes the suffering of these people who have succumbed to this, but it does confirm that the most vulnerable among us are those with compromised health before they acquire the virus. Here\u2019s a pull quote:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to the most recent data from the [CDC], almost two-thirds (65.6%) of the people who have died after testing positive for coronavirus have been confirmed to have one of those specified underlying conditions,&#8221; diabetes, heart disease, obesity, kidney problems, liver problems, &#8220;while just 1.9% of the people who died after testing positive were confirmed to have &#8216;no underlying conditions.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Only 1.9% of the people that died in New York City were confirmed to have no underlying conditions. That\u2019s huge! So people that have these underlying conditions obviously need to stay home. But we\u2019re getting to the point, I would think, where we could begin to think about turning the rest of us loose &#8212; people that don\u2019t have any underlying health conditions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The data shows that 1,623 of the 2,475 who have died after testing positive in the city had a serious preexisting condition&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Health\/coronavirus-death-toll-us-worse-numbers\/story?id=70018321\">Coronavirus Death Toll in U.S. Likely Worse than Numbers Say <\/a>&#8212; Experts say the more than 10,000 deaths is an undercount, full picture unknown.&#8221; Even though the models &#8212; every one of the models used &#8212; are revising down, ABC News says, &#8220;Thousands of Americans have been lost to COVID-19. The U.S. death toll surpassed 10,000 this week&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;[T]hat figure belied a grim truth: the real number of deaths is higher, but no one knows how much. &#8216;There is no doubt the official death toll is an undercount,\u2019 New York City Councilman Mark&#8230;&#8221; Why\u2019s this guy an expert? &#8220;&#8216;There is no doubt the official death toll is an undercount,\u2019 New York City Councilman Mark Levine&#8221; said.<\/p>\n<p>Who is this guy? I\u2019ll tell you who he is. He\u2019s a Trump-hating buffoon, who claimed that New York City has so many deaths from coronavirus they\u2019re gonna start burying people in mass graves in parks, and that has not happened. He\u2019s the same guy&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-341274\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/APP-033020-WH-Rose-Gar-COVID-USS-COMFORT-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/APP-033020-WH-Rose-Gar-COVID-USS-COMFORT-1.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/APP-033020-WH-Rose-Gar-COVID-USS-COMFORT-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/APP-033020-WH-Rose-Gar-COVID-USS-COMFORT-1-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>By the way, this guy, Mark Levine, is the same guy who told New Yorkers to go to Chinatown and enjoy the Chinese New Year parade! He said there\u2019s nothing to fear here. Go to your parades, go down there. The CDC &#8220;is well aware that the figures &#8212; which keep going up &#8212; do not tell the full story. &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;It\u2019s likely that COVID-19 related deaths may not be included on a death certificate or&#8230;'&#8221; (chuckles) Wrong. It\u2019s the other way around. It\u2019s practically every death happening in New York is being chalked up to COVID-19. Dr. Birx has said so. We had the audio sound bites earlier. They\u2019re classifying everything as COVID-19.<\/p>\n<p>If you die &#8220;with&#8221; COVID-19, you died &#8220;because&#8221; of it.<\/p>\n<p>That is what they are saying.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: here\u2019s new numbers in for Virginia on the death toll from the model. This is the vaunted Washington state model, the famed now IMHE. The projections as of 10:15 this morning, the projections for deaths in Virginia dropped today to 891. These are projections. And the projection of people needing ICU beds, 319, and 272 ventilators. I could rephrase that and have it make more sense. The IMHE model projections for Virginia dropped today. They\u2019re now predicting 891 dead, 319 beds needed in the ICU, and 272 ventilators.<\/p>\n<p>One week ago &#8212; are you ready? One week ago this same model projected 3,000 deaths in Virginia. They projected 918 beds would be needed in the ICU, and they projected that Virginia would need 734 ventilators. So one week ago, 3,000 deaths, 918 beds, 734 ventilators. Today 891 deaths, not 3,000, 319 ICU beds, not 918, and 272 ventilators, not 734.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Here\u2019s Dick in Atlanta. Hello, Dick. Great to have you, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Thank you for taking the call, Rush. I\u2019ve been listening to you for about 30 years. You\u2019re now the highlight of my day with all this stuff going on.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Well, thank you, sir, very much. I sincerely appreciate that.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: And my name is Vick. Vick. But what I\u2019m calling about &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Oh, I\u2019m sorry. It says &#8220;Dick&#8221; up there, and I read it.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: It happens all the time.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: So it\u2019s Vick with a V, like in VapoRub.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019m calling about&#8230; This is something I\u2019ve never heard discussed or mentioned with all their models. This started in January, probably, the coronavirus. I\u2019m looking at the CDC estimates for flu deaths and what have you from October until March 28th, and it is saying we had 39 million to 55 million flu illnesses, 24,000 to 63,000 deaths. These are estimates.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Mmm-hmm?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: My question &#8212; and I talked to a nurse. She\u2019s been nurse for 10 or 15 years. She\u2019s in New York. I asked her if people with the flu can get coronavirus. This is my only source, so somebody else would have to investigate it. She said, &#8220;Yeah; when they do, it\u2019s devastating.&#8221; Now, my question underlying diseases, if we have a 24,000 to 63,000 estimate for deaths and they catch coronavirus, how many of these people are dying from flu?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-342575\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-040720-Covid-009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-040720-Covid-009.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-040720-Covid-009-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-040720-Covid-009-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>How many are dying from coronavirus. Does anybody know? Are they&#8230;? I\u2019m sure at this point, it\u2019s counted as coronavirus &#8212; and also with their models, I kind of thought this a couple of weeks ago when I looked at this, that the death rate\u2019s gonna start going down because flu season is over. Again, we had supposedly 35 million to 55 million people &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Look, Vick, they\u2019re going out of their way to tell you, &#8220;This is not the flu. Don\u2019t compare it to the flu! It\u2019s a waste of time to compare it to the flu,&#8221; \u2019cause they don\u2019t want you to compare it to the flu.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: They\u2019re not even giving this as an underlying condition, and what I\u2019m seeing is somebody has the flu or they get \u2019em at the same time &#8212; the flu and the virus, coronavirus &#8212; they\u2019re much more liable for death, it seems like.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right. It would stand to reason. The question is: How is the death categorized? Here, grab sound bite number two. We have the world\u2019s foremost authority telling us the truth about this yesterday, Dr. Deborah Birx whose husband, by the way (Snerdley, do you know this?), worked for the Clintons. Her husband was advance man for the Clintons way back&#8230; (interruption)<\/p>\n<p>You didn\u2019t know that? (interruption) There is nobody in that town in the establishment that does not have an incestuous relationship with some Democrat administration. No. Anyway, here\u2019s Dr. Birx during the briefing yesterday. A reporter said, &#8220;Can you talk about your concerns about deaths being misreported by coronavirus because of either testing or standards or how they\u2019re characterized?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-342853\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-040820-Covid-Brix.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-040820-Covid-Brix.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-040820-Covid-Brix-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-040820-Covid-Brix-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>BIRX: There are other countries that if you had a preexisting condition &#8212; and let\u2019s say the virus caused you to go to the ICU and then have a heart or kidney problem &#8212; some countries are recording that as a heart issue or a kidney issue and not a COVID-19 death. Right now, we\u2019re still recording at&#8230; I mean, the great thing about having forms that come in and a form that has the ability to mark it as COVID-19 infection&#8230; The intent is right now that those &#8212; if someone dies with COVID-19, we are counting that as a COVID-19 death.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay, Vick, there\u2019s your answer. No matter what, if they have COVID-19 when they die, that\u2019s what it\u2019s gonna be chalked up to, the cause death &#8212; and the keyword here is &#8220;with.&#8221; She says, &#8220;If someone dies with COVID-19&#8230;&#8221; That could mean you have a heart attack.<\/p>\n<p>But you might have had a trace of virus. They\u2019re not gonna call your death one due to cardiac arrest. They\u2019re gonna chalk it up to COVID. She\u2019s eager! She sounds excited to chalk as many deaths as possible up to COVID-19, is the way this sound to me.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: It does to me too. I\u2019ve got a lot of questions I\u2019d like to ask you about, but I won\u2019t go into that. It\u2019s too mysterious the way things have &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Why not? Just ask me one of \u2019em.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Well &#8212;<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Take advantage of your opportunity here.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Okay. You got it.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You may never get through again.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: I\u2019m retired. I retired eight months ago, and I\u2019ve been listening to this nonsense with impeachment this, impeachment that, collusion for 3-1\/2 years. Last year I decided that, you know, I had a 401(k). I wanted to get it out because they\u2019re gonna find a way to crash the stock market, and I took it out. I retired in August. I came along again listening to the last impeachment thing, and Nancy Pelosi&#8230; There was speculation on this that the House ended in December, she had her papers, and she decided not to march \u2019em over until January.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Right. What\u2019s the question, Vick?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: The question is&#8230; This is just things that I\u2019ve noted, and they didn\u2019t get there \u2019til January. And it\u2019s taken up the entire month, and I never noticed coronavirus myself until February after the impeachment trial was over and the whole country shut down.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-341797\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-040120-Daily-Brief-COVID-006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-040120-Daily-Brief-COVID-006.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-040120-Daily-Brief-COVID-006-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-040120-Daily-Brief-COVID-006-480x270.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/>RUSH: Oh, the coronavirus. Vick, the coronavirus was out there. Coronavirus was out there in December. We were being warned about it from Wuhan doctors &#8212; who now, can\u2019t be found. We were being warned about it in January. Trump canceled flights from China in January. We knew about the Wuhan virus. Pelosi didn\u2019t. She was, as you say, totally focused on impeachment. Vick, I just have one quick question. You say you retired. On what are you living right now?<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: We have 401(k)s and Social Security.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Okay. All right. Just checking. Making sure you\u2019re okay.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: You know what other big cause of death is way, way down? Pneumonia. Pneumonia deaths are way down. And that\u2019s one of the things this virus supposedly replicates. It affects lungs like pneumonia. You know, pneumonia is a lung infection. A lot of people think pneumonia is fluid in the lungs. It\u2019s not true. It\u2019s an infection of the lungs. And the coronavirus causes something similar.<\/p>\n<p>But the death rates for pneumonia are way down \u2019cause everything is being chalked up to COVID-19. They want the number of deaths up there. That\u2019s the only way they can justify what the hell limits they\u2019re putting on everybody here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Now, folks, I want you to listen here to me because this is very important. 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