Lol what utter nonsense. As I said, people who make their own ridiculous graphs are confusing to me. COVID-19 is at least 10x as deadly as influenzahttps://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160895v4 …
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"Across 32 different locations, the median IFR was 0.27% (corrected to 0.24%). Most studies were done in pandemic epicenters with high death tolls." https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.13.20101253v3 … Some people desperately want this to be the apocalypse. It really is bizarre to watch.
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That paper is quite flawed, as I've pointed out. What I do find bizarre is the number of politically-motivated anonymous accounts producing incorrect graphs that are taken seriously. Very strangehttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1283232023402868737?s=20 …
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It's not, actually - even using an IFR of 0.28%, it would be around 5-10x the IFR of seasonal influenza. People love to use an 0.1% figure for flu without realising that this is the CFR for symptomatic cases as per the CDC and WHO
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The challenge for influenza is that deaths and cases are inferred, because it is rarely formally diagnosed. That being said, a high CFR would be ~0.15%, and with somewhere around 50% asymptomatic spread you'd expect an IFR of ~0.08% in a bad year
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Replying to @melbprisoner @JayMan471 and
Nope, not at all. Those are all, for one reason or another, ridiculously misleading graphs. Just to take one example, would it be a good thing if overall deaths, which have been reducing every year, went back to 1999 levels?
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In this case, it's gone back to 1999 levels WITH THE INTERVENTIONS. This is in England, which had very substantial interventions against COVID-19. So what that graph actually shows is that mortality has lost 20 years of progress even when we intervene
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Ban on visitation to aged care. Ban on gatherings of 50+ people. Significant social distancing rules for restaurants/cafes. Closed borders to international travel. Most large public institutions (i.e. zoos) closed. These interventions are still in effect today
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