There are very few things I feel comfortable saying this about, but I am a relevant expert and Alex has no idea what he's talking about when it comes to the death rate from COVID-19pic.twitter.com/RlAf48ApKs
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That's just those who died who had a positive test and or clinical diagnosis. Certainly an underestimate.
I understand the need for privacy but I think many would gain perspective if they could see what we see. The most gruesome sights from the pandemic take place behind ICU doors. Most people dismissing COVID-19 don’t have visual context and don’t know what they’re talking about.
Very true, and depressing 
I guess this piece in the @WSJ that put the estimated of IFR at a tenth of that is counting on reincarnation of the dead... It is still 2020 so you never know.https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-the-coronavirus-as-deadly-as-they-say-11585088464?shareToken=st03117be0d6484de0a13e7fc81540a1fd&reflink=article_email_share&fbclid=IwAR3QrdAU25_WvJNfrJlOyzGAGesKlvT1gqVJVsKbbmOME2IyKqgXf-yqBes …
I'd forgotten about that piece! Even in March, not a good guess imo
A sad reminder that Lombardy reached 0.1% deaths in the first wave, and is now close to 0.25%. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1099389/coronavirus-deaths-by-region-in-italy/ …
And that ignores the massive excess death rate, which could almost double the deaths and the IFR.
One in a thousand is one of those ratios that sounds low, but when you’re talking about catastrophic events over very large populations, they’re terrifyingly high.
Would you enter a full Yankee Stadium if you knew 50 random people in it would die?
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