This is either the most absurd nonsense I've seen about COVID-19 for a while It centers on a simple point: is COVID-19 more fatal than influenza?https://twitter.com/ClimateAudit/status/1303024247510503424 …
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Interestingly enough, if we use the CDC's estimate of deaths/symptomatic cases from the 17/18 influenza season, and compare to that of COVID-19, we find that the lethality is almost exactly 10x higher: 66,000/44,000,000 compared with 189,000/6,000,000
Broadly speaking, ~0.1% IS the CFR of seasonal influenza, as per both the WHO and the CDC, who calculate this figure based on symptomatic infections inferred from ICD coding https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/2018-2019.html …
More importantly, when we compare apples to apples in terms of mortality figures, there is no doubt that COVID-19 is orders of magnitude more fatal than influenza per infectionhttps://medium.com/@gidmk/covid-19-is-far-more-lethal-than-influenza-69b6628e69f2 …
Yes, and it's also a false comparison b/c deaths are counted differently. Flu is estimated using DCs & models, & C19 only uses death certs. His amount of 80k is wrong also, as it was revised to 61k in 2019. Short thread here: (Note correction at end.)https://twitter.com/WMerthon/status/1303857521376059393 …
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