Anyone know if this is about right...?
It has not been a year yet for covid-19 to do the full year fatalities. Covid-19 is 2.7% mortality rate (and up to 5% in some places) the flu is 0.1%, it is 27 times more deadly, 2700% more deadly than the flu.
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Replying to @LesStonehouse
@GidMK do you know if this is right? I'd never thought about it in those terms. Flu mortality is 1/1,000 Covid mortality is 27/1,000? There are lots of missing variables - we don't know the real incidence of cases. So this is diagnosed cases.https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid#the-current-case-fatality-rate-of-covid-19 …3 replies 1 retweet 3 likes -
Replying to @maureenchuck1 @LesStonehouse
Based on my original mortality estimate, covid would be ~7/1,000. Influenza has a CASE fatality rate of 1/1,000, but the mortality rate is more like 2-5/10,000. We also know that the mortality of covid increases exponentially with age, from <1/1,000 for 20yo to >20/1,000 for 65
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Replying to @GidMK @LesStonehouse
Can you explain the difference between Case Fatality Rate and Mortality Rate please?
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Replying to @maureenchuck1 @LesStonehouse
Here I'm using mortality rate to mean infection fatality rate (IFR). The difference is in the denominators - CFR uses confirmed cases, but IFR is the proportion of people who die of all infections, including asymptomatic and mild cases who never get tested
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It was, but we now have a very good idea i.e.https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160895v7 …
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