If you're interested in how I'm counting things, you are welcome to read the thread and check the references. The IFR of influenza varies by year, but is around 0.05%. IFR for COVID-19 varies depending on the age-groups infected, but is at least 5-10x that in most populations
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Replying to @GidMK @federicolois and
0.1% Flu IFR- Fauci et al. https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/nejme2002387 … 0.23% C19 IFR- Ioannidis https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/BLT.20.265892.pdf … CDC disclaimer: influenza counts are modeled due to low frequency testing. Do you agree C19 has a lower IFR for children than influenza?
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Replying to @Kevin_McKernan @federicolois and
Lol you haven't read that paper have you? That's the CASE fatality rate of influenza, or CFR. Given that there are many asymptomatic flu cases, the IFR is substantially lower
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Replying to @GidMK @federicolois and
Asymptomatic for flu only moves the needle 2 fold and precision on the number is weak compared to C19 due to lack of testing. Unless you have testing data that says otherwise? But you won’t answer the relevant question. What is more dangerous for kids? Flu of C19?
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Replying to @0bj3ctivity @GidMK and
No he didn’t. He dodged it with no references and low precision language.
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Replying to @Kevin_McKernan @federicolois and
Only charlatans pretend at certainty when there isn't any. It is plausible that COVID-19 is more fatal for <18 than influenza, similarly it is not unlikely that it is less fatal. It is hard to say, given the evidence that we have so far
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Replying to @GidMK @federicolois and
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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Replying to @Kevin_McKernan @federicolois and
Does it? That's my paper you're citing
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Replying to @GidMK @federicolois and
I know. I like the part where you say its Zero but then obfuscate this in tweets to save face.pic.twitter.com/yRNx7d9X30
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We never said it was zero, and that language has been updated to reflect the fact that it is lower but still significant. You really don't read the things you tweet do you?
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