New Danish study implies we've put 4bn people under house arrest, devastated livelihoods for years, for a disease with death rate of .08% for 17 to 69 year olds. If true, simply shocking. https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.24.20075291v1.full.pdf …
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It's also worth noting that this is consistent with a much higher death rate in the general population and the associated economic damage. I aggregated IFR estimates here with an overall point-estimate of 0.75%https://medium.com/@gidmk/what-is-the-infection-fatality-rate-of-covid-19-7f58f7c90410 …
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And, of course, the very large problem in the study THAT THE AUTHORS NOTE that this is a highly selected population and extrapolating to the general populace has significant caveatspic.twitter.com/qjb6iyqoGT
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Also implies that the economy will tick along if we let this "wash" through society. You can open restaurants but with a raging epidemic people are not going to be packing your tables.
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