As regards IFR, it's more meaningful to use age stratified IFR https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160895v7 … But it's important to recognise there are significant morbidity risks from long COVID, reinfection, immune damage, and increased risks of other infections, cancers and autoimmune disease
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Anyway, even using the Ioannidis IFR for COVID-19, which is the lowest estimate out there and quite problematic, COVID-19 is about 5x as deadly as influenza
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The C19 IFR drops over time. better treatments emerge and the age demo they hit goes down. They have been dropping as they expanded testing and realize there are more qPCR positive asymptomatics than initially believed. CDC has it at 0.26.https://in.dental-tribune.com/news/new-estimate-by-the-cdc-brings-down-the-covid-19-death-rate-to-just-0-26-as-against-whos-3-4/ …
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lighten up on the insults. Charlatans, LOLs, dont help you. You seemed pretty certain above? Your opinion on this differs from the literature on childhood IFR compared to flu. https://preventepidemics.org/covid19/science/weekly-science-review/september-12-18/ … https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160895v3.full.pdf …pic.twitter.com/TzbYAUFAIe
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You have read those death columns?
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