The Imperial team used Diamond Princess data to estimate an IFR of 0.66% (0.2-1.3%) in March That is almost exactly what we see in the serosurveys across the world today, months laterpic.twitter.com/bqEQ7yzX4q
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If you exclude elderly, the IFR of flu drops drastically. Almost all influenza deaths are in <5yo and >65yo, whereas COVID-19 kills from 30+ The age-specific IFR of COVID is far higher than influenza as well
Agreed that flu also drops lower if you exclude elderly. Both COVID and flu would be low.
But COVID would be several dozen times more fatal than influenza. That's the point
But clearly children are more at risk from flu than COVID.
You’re still just not talking about many deaths from COVID until you hit age 55... https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid_weekly/index.htm#AgeAndSex …
People under age 55 take higher risks all the time.
That's a ridiculously silly argument. Death is not the only risk from COVID, and it's absurd to compare, say, skydiving with infectious disease
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