It's startling to watch people argue that #COVID19 is similar to influenza in terms of death rate. Using NYC as a strict lower bound:
13,536 confirmed COVID deaths
5,373 suspected COVID deaths
8,398,748 people TOTAL
= 0.16-0.23% of the TOTAL population dead
For this to be similar to the flu (~0.1% IFR), EVERYONE in New York would've had to be infected 2-3 weeks ago
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If we use a more reasonable estimate - say, the serology study from NYC - it would appear somewhere between 0.5-1.2% of people in New York who caught COVID-19 died That is MUCH higher than influenza
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A point that's worth making here is that NYC actually has quite a low median age, which makes these numbers even more worrying
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