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<\/p>\nRUSH: These studies are popping up everywhere. First, we had Stanford University. They did a survey — their own survey — medical research. Stanford is not a bunch of slouches. Stanford is not some conservative institution of higher learning. Stanford\u2019s high up on the approved leftist list, okay?<\/p>\n
They sent their own medical team out to do a survey of Santa Clara County, California. Santa Clara is loosely in the Bay Area. It\u2019s the home of the San Francisco 49ers, for example. They found that the number of people infected with the coronavirus in Santa Clara County is 50 to 85 times what has been reported by the official CDC numbers, task force numbers, and all that — 50 to 85 times.<\/p>\n
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The death rate stayed static. The number of people who\u2019ve died is the number of people who\u2019ve died. The task force numbers of people affected like in 2,000\/2,500, whatever it was. A factor of 50 to 85 times higher brought the death rate, the mortality rate from coronavirus down from 2% to 4% to 0.1%, which puts it on par with the flu or maybe less.<\/p>\n
Next, USC (the University of Spoiled Children) in Southern California. They did their own survey of Los Angeles County. They found the same thing. The number of infected people in Los Angeles County is 55 times higher than the task force numbers. Once again, reducing the mortality rate, because the death rate is what it is.<\/p>\n
The death rate, number of people who\u2019ve died, stays. The number of people affected is a wild guess, \u2019cause we can\u2019t test everybody. So the number of people affected is essentially the number of people who\u2019ve reported it. But there\u2019s all kinds of people that get this disease and never know they\u2019ve got it. That\u2019s called asymptomatic.<\/p>\n
They\u2019re running around with it, but it doesn\u2019t affect them. They can spread it. They are contagious. So this is essentially an antibody test. So in LA County and Santa Clara County, they have found that the mortality rate is around 0.1%. These two studies have come under merciless attack, because there\u2019s all kinds of money and there\u2019s all kinds of reputations attached to the task force numbers.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s interesting that the governor of California… There\u2019s one other aspect in California. They have discovered that the first coronavirus death in California occurred in February, like months before they thought the first death occurred, which lends credence to the fact that the disease has been in California longer than anybody knew.<\/p>\n
Now, this is important too. Now, we hope we can trust whatever results we get from this. But keep in mind: Both the reported infection rate and the number of deaths — and thus the percentage — in California is way below New York, way below New York. California has 40 million people. They have people traveling from China, leaving for China.<\/p>\n I mean, they got airports connected to China, 5,000 people a day going back and forth, what with the Chinese Lunar New Year celebrations and all. So their numbers are way below New York, and you know what the official explanation is? The official explanation is, “Well, California got a head start on social distancing.”<\/p>\n Oh. How big a head start?<\/p>\n “Well, they started three days before.”<\/p>\n Are you telling me that this difference in the infection rate and death rate in California is \u2019cause they got a three-day head start over New York in social distancing? Sorry, folks. Doesn\u2019t fly. Now, “Preliminary Study Suggests 13% of New York State Residents Have Contracted Coronavirus.”<\/a><\/p>\n “[I]f the results are born [sic] out by further studies, it would indicate that the prevalence of coronavirus is much more widespread than previously believed,” and much less deadly. “As of Thursday,” that would be today, “there have been 260,000 confirmed cases of coronavirus in New York State, with 147,000 in New York City.”<\/p>\n “Cuomo pointed out that according to the results, about one in five people in New York City alone (over 1.7 million residents) have coronavirus antibodies, indicating that [these people] had either come down sick with coronavirus and had not realized it, or had asymptomatic cases.” We don\u2019t know. We have no idea.<\/p>\n But wait a minute, Governor. You just said, the disease is death, and now you\u2019re telling us that 1.7 million residents have it, didn\u2019t know they had it, or didn\u2019t suffer greatly from it. “The survey was conducted at pop-up clinics outside supermarkets across the state, with 3,000 participants,” the same number in Santa Clara County.<\/p>\n “This is the first statewide antibody test completed in [Nueva Orc], so it is not clear if the survey results present a full picture of the situation. However, if the results are born [sic] out by further studies, it would indicate that the prevalence of coronavirus is much more widespread than [anybody] previously believed,” including Dr. Fauci.<\/p>\n The survey indicates that the vast majority of [New York]\u2019s cases are concentrated in New York City, Long Island, and Westchester and Rockland counties… Upstate New York has relatively few cases,” and it says here, “The news comes after Santa Clara, California, officials announced that the first death from coronavirus in the state was on February 6, three weeks earlier than first reported.”<\/p>\n These are the famous antibody tests. What these tests do is determine whether somebody has had the virus. See, what happens is (I gave a very simple explanation yesterday) you get coronavirus, and you will have the antibodies. Your body develops antibodies to it, and in some people\u2019s cases, those antibodies are enough to fight it off.<\/p>\n Either the symptoms are very slight, or you don\u2019t feel any at all. You never know you\u2019ve had it — and might think, if it doesn\u2019t affect you badly, that you just had a cold or some kind of a strange flu. In the meantime, the antibodies present an immunity. So the next time the virus enters your body, it dies. It\u2019s killed by the antibodies.<\/p>\n Now, what people don\u2019t know is: For how long does that circumstance last.? How long are the antibodies active? Six months? One month? A year? Nobody knows yet. But what we are finding out is that there are far, far more people in this country who have been infected by coronavirus and don\u2019t even know it.<\/p>\n It\u2019s something they\u2019ve never experienced before. It didn\u2019t keep \u2019em down, they were able to go to work, but it was something strange. They just chalked it up to the flu. Some people had it bad. Some people barely had anything. But they are now convinced that they had it.<\/p>\n This is back in December. It\u2019s why the governor is wanting to redo autopsies from back then. So, in addition to the antibody presence killing the virus when it enters the body with antibodies, this is also dramatically lowering the actual mortality rate.<\/p>\n In Santa Clara County uploaded and LA County, it\u2019s 0.1%. That\u2019s right on par with the number of people killed by the flu every year. So it\u2019s three states… Well, it\u2019s two states and three different reports: Two in California, one in New York.<\/p>\n I asked vice president presence, what\u2019s your reaction? The task force surely sees these things. They see these surveys; they see these studies. And he said they look at \u2019em, they study \u2019em, they factor them into things that they\u2019re doing, calculations that they are making. The bottom line is that there is a — you could call this — well, because it is. You can call this a version of herd immunity.<\/p>\n It\u2019s exactly what herd immunity is, is people getting the virus, coming down with it. Ninety-eight percent of the people recover from it, they develop an immunity. That\u2019s herd immunity. And you get it by getting the virus. You don\u2019t get it by not getting it. You don\u2019t get it by staying at home, sequestering, social distancing. That\u2019s not how immunity happens. You\u2019re not building up immunity by staying at home. You\u2019re not doing one thing other than not exposing yourself to people that might have it. But you\u2019re not building up any immunity.<\/p>\n Anyway, these numbers just continue to give me optimism. At some point they\u2019re gonna have to be acknowledged. Dr. Scott W. Atlas is an opinion contributor at TheHill.com. He has a piece today: “The Data Is In — Stop the panic and end the total isolation.”<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-042120-COVID-WH-d.jpg\")
So, “California Governor [Gavin Newsom] Orders Autopsies Back to December to Find out How Long Coronavirus Has Been in the State.”<\/a> He has “ordered medical examiners and coroners across the state [of California] to review autopsies dating back to December to ‘help guide a deeper understanding of when this pandemic really started to impact Californians.'”<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-041520-Covid-NY-1.jpg\")
So I guess the models predicting the prevalence of the virus in New York City were wrong again: 260,000 confirmed cases in New York as of today. This study that has studied antibodies “suggests up to 2.7 million New Yorkers have been infected.” That\u2019s 13% of New York state. “Governor Cuomo announced these results at his [“I\u2019m governor and you\u2019re not”] press briefing” today.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/APP-041520-Covid-China.jpg\")
Either they were asymptomatic, or their symptoms were such that it wasn\u2019t worth going to the clinic or the hospital. Maybe you call the doctor. “I got a little flu, stuffy nose,” whatever it was. But it didn\u2019t present in any way like an emergency, and they didn\u2019t think anything of it. I\u2019ve got people California that I know who tell me they thought they had this in December.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>He writes, “The tragedy of the COVID-19 pandemic appears to be entering the containment phase. Tens of thousands of Americans have died, and Americans are now desperate for sensible policymakers who have the courage to ignore the panic and rely on facts. Leaders must examine accumulated data to see what has actually happened, rather than keep emphasizing hypothetical projections –” meaning the models “– combine that empirical evidence with fundamental principles of biology established for decades; and then thoughtfully restore the country to function.<\/p>\n