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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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 …
Do we know how many FLU tests were done in 2017-2018? It is discussed widely that diagnosed COVID-19 cases are only a fraction of the actually infected (but asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic) cases due to the limitations of testing -especially in previous months.
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