There are very few things I feel comfortable saying this about, but I am a relevant expert and Alex has no idea what he's talking about when it comes to the death rate from COVID-19pic.twitter.com/RlAf48ApKs
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Particularly as the fatality rate of the entire population reaches 0.1% in the UK and US.
Have you seen any IFR estimates from Victoria's 2nd wave via serology? I assume they had an IFR somewhere over 2% due to the outbreak being dominated by aged care and the high testing rates and lowish % positive tests imply a high % of cases were picked up.
It's shocking, but with 330,000 US deaths to date, 0.1% of the entire US population has died of COVID, making that a rather strong lower bound on IFR.
That's just those who died who had a positive test and or clinical diagnosis. Certainly an underestimate.
Even if the IFR of COVID-19 was 0.1% (it’s much higher) for a pandemic virus, that’s very high. One has to be so cruel to dismiss that like it’s nothing. Fatality rates do not fully capture suffering and long term morbidity. Much of this pandemic has gone unseen behind ICU doors.
Covids IFR is likely 2-6 times higher than 0.1%. But 0.1% is not high at all (comparable to the flu). There is also no evidence of long term morbidity at higher levels than the flu. The world had two worse pandemics in 58 and 68 and did not think of locking down.
IFR doesn’t account for the asymptomatic cases that are expected to be 40% or more of all cases and are never counted correct?
Where is the ifr 2% in the US? How many areas?
Retirement villages perhaps
1-2% is a totally unfounded statement to which I doubt you can cite any evidence (and which is unlikely to be true). The real number is probably around 0.6%. https://www.imperial.ac.uk/media/imperial-college/medicine/mrc-gida/2020-10-29-COVID19-Report-34.pdf …
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