Because being a novel zoonotic infectious disease there is no "under control"; it's either going to zero or going to the herd immunity point and the current situation is unsustainable or at the least unpleasant enough that people won't sustain it willingly.
Granting their assumption that some prior corona virus causes the body to produce the same antibodies as for COVID19 it still isn't good news; just means that the IFR goes from 1% to some higher number by lowering the denominator (I) while keeping the numerator constant (F).
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Indeed.
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Already factored into the numbers, IFR is now thought to be in the .1% to .4% range, infection is basically harmless to the young and healthy -- like flu, except flu can be dangerous in kids while COVID-19 is harmless to kids. Average age at death for COVID is >80.pic.twitter.com/wYuXry3n4J
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Except in Italy, Spain, NYC, etc. Hopefully, we can drive down the Infection Fatality Rate over time by getting better at treating infected people. I'd like to think we already have. But infection fatality rates in the 0.7% to 1.1% range are clearly part of the historical record.
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