Updated systematic review and meta-analysis of age-specific IFR for COVID-19! Now includes more than a dozen samples from across the world (and yours truly as a co-author
) 1/nhttps://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160895v3 …
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6/n Excluding Italy, which appears to be a very substantial outlier, the predicted IFRs based on age-specific prevalence of COVID-19 for 16 countries line up almost perfectly with the true IFRs (R^2=0.88)https://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1294752134915747840?s=20 …
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7/n What this means is that we can say with some certainty that the differences in death rate between many places may come down to how society interacts with older people
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8/n There are still many unexplained variances here, and it's certainly not all about age, but age definitely has a huge impact
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9/n Age-specific IFR meta-analysis, might be of interest
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Why Salt Lake City or Atlanta have been compared as an entire nation like Italy or Belgium? What were the results in case you plotted USA in the graph?
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