Getting Information about Covid-19 Coronavirus

You don’t want to rely on just one source when it comes to keeping up to date.  There is certainly an abundance of social media posts that are completely bogus.  You’ve got to do your due diligence.  Some news organizations could have information that other ones don’t.

While the mainstream media generally reports and tracks notable cases, you can’t totally rely on these sources for the actual news. Acting as a gatekeeper of information, allowing and burying stories they feel fit to report, the mainstream media does not always report the complete stories.

It’s important to understand it’s not so much “what” the media reports or “how” they report it, but more importantly what they “do not” report.

You DO NOT want to rely only on the mainstream media for news about COVID-19.  They are largely simply propaganda arms of the government filtering the real news from you in order to prevent a panic.

According to the historical data compiled by Worldometer, the reported COVID-19 numbers never provided a complete picture of the pandemic. Worldometer’s archived data show that, among reported cases that had reached an outcome, deaths represented roughly 1%, while the vast majority were recorded as recovered or discharged. However, those figures were based on reported and confirmed cases, not the total number of people who were actually infected.

That distinction is important. Many infections were never detected or officially reported, particularly among people who were asymptomatic or experienced only mild symptoms. The World Health Organization has likewise noted that case-fatality estimates based only on confirmed cases can be misleading because the true number of infections is difficult to determine.

Today, the uncertainty is even greater because global COVID-19 testing and reporting have declined substantially. WHO notes that reported cases no longer accurately represent the true level of infection and that surveillance data are incomplete.

So, at the end of the day, the exact numbers remain difficult to establish. The statistics we have are useful for understanding the pandemic, but they should not be mistaken for a complete count of every infection or death.

Little real investigative reporting is going on among the MSM and they are only parroting what they are fed by the World Health Organization and Centers for Disease Control.

Following are the “so-called” authoritative official sources for information.  Beware of these sources, however, because they appear to be vastly understating the actual numbers in an effort to prevent panic:

• Centers for Disease Control
• World Health Organization

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Perhaps a more trustworthy source of information is:

• Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security
• Coronavirus COVID-19 Global Cases by Johns Hopkins CSSE
• CIDRAP – Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy