I'm an epidemiologist. I put the chances that there will be no daily deaths in the US due to #COVID19 by May 15th relatively close to 0%https://twitter.com/angie_rasmussen/status/1257410595218808833 …
If you're interested in the infection-fatality ratio - i.e. how many people who get the disease will die - I did a review and meta-analysis on that very topic with methodology explained here:https://medium.com/@gidmk/what-is-the-infection-fatality-rate-of-covid-19-7f58f7c90410 …
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Thank you for sharing, that was a good read. My mother-in-law recently passed. She was 93, had dementia 15+years, and was bedridden with a broken hip. Her death cause was listed as Covid. For political & financial reasons, doctors here seem to be fudging the truth.
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This is the complexity. Some people will be very sick and pass away only a short time earlier than they otherwise would've. On the flipside, some people will die much earlier. I had a distant cousin, mid-50s, otherwise well, who died in NYC from COVID
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I also understand comorbidities are common. Most victims suffer metabolic afflictions, hypertension, obesity, diabetes. These are very common amongst our modern global population, junk food is killing us.
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