"The coronavirus is the common cold. 2% [who] get the coronavirus die. That’s less than the flu. That is a far lower death statistic than any form of influenza. There’s nothing unusual about the coronavirus".
-- Rush Limbaugh, 2/24/20, here
Rush's coronavirus death statistic ended up being off by about only 6.5 times, per the CDC leading causes of death data for 2020 below.
Rush died in 2021 of the second leading cause of death in 2020.
There were approximately 20.024 million cases of COVID-19 in 2020, so 1.75% died according to the CDC data.
CDC estimates an average of 29.6 million cases of influenza annually 2010-2020. Deaths from influenza and pneumonia of 53,417 in 2020, below, is 0.18% of that, a far lower rate of death than for any form of COVID-19, heh heh.
The rate of death for COVID-19 was thus far, far worse than for influenza . . . by about 9.7 times in 2020.
