This is something I've really been struck by when looking at the infection fatality rate of COVID-19. Despite the enormous number of serosurveys that some called essential, we've gained almost no real knowledge by pinpointing a specific IFRhttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1275982748759412736 …
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Pinpointing a specific IFR might be scientifically interesting, but the difference between 0.2% and 0.6% is pretty minimal when it comes to policy, because the impact on health in hard-hit areas is obvious
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Massive serosurveys have found, across the board, that very few people are immune to COVID-19, even in hard-hit areas Aside from that, the specific numbers are not nearly as important as people are making them out to be, imo
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Didn’t Ioannidis write on this in March and got pilloried for it? https://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/ …
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Yep. It was a bad take at the time, remains a very silly piece to write even now
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