21/n Fact 21: COVID-19 is the third leading cause of death for 2020 in the United States In the last few months of the year, it may have overtaken other causes of death to become THE LEADING CAUSE OF DEATH FOR >30 year oldshttps://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2774465 …
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32/n Fact 32: The WHO estimated that LESS THAN 10% of the world was infected in October, contrary to common mythshttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1315447821814775808?s=19 …
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33/n Fact 33: Many of these facts are about NUANCE and UNCERTAINTY. Often what we DO know is just that we don't know VERY MUCH
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34/n I wrote this thread up as a bit of a bloghttps://gidmk.medium.com/20-facts-about-covid-19-1afbb026bc98 …
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Thanks for this great summary Gid
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So 1 person has been reinfected?
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Thanks, this (pic.twitter.com/m5X20IfVza) is the first time I've heard the claim that COVID19 is as lethal for young people as is influenza! Do you think that comparison successfully adjusts for more testing for COVID than influenza? Also, I've heard that measuring IFR depends on
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an arbitrary threshold for what viral load you count as infection (PCR cycles? I can't remember the term), which if true seems to make comparison extremely uncertain.
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Very much a non event and likely false positives more than actual reinfection
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