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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 29

    Health Nerd Retweeted Steve Deace

    I think one overlooked aspect of Prof Ioannidis' recent paper, aside from the personal attacks, is that it is already being predictably misused The paper says nothing about the 'true' IFR of COVID-19https://twitter.com/SteveDeaceShow/status/1376324032321220616 …

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    Steve DeaceVerified account @SteveDeaceShow
    One of the leading public health experts in the country says true IFR for Covid-19 is just 0.15%, which is barely above the 0.1% for the flu. Unless the virus really did come from a lab instead of nature, no more lockdowns or masks. Back to normal. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eci.13554#.YGDCl4Wfy9o.twitter …
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      2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 29

        Indeed, one of the areas in which Prof Ioannidis and I are in great agreement is that the IFR of the disease VARIES BY LOCATION

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      3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 29

        Health Nerd Retweeted Health Nerd

        Now, we differ in whether you can calculate a GLOBAL fatality rate for COVID-19 - I think it's not really possible - but even then the death rate for the United States is FAR higherhttps://twitter.com/GidMK/status/1376304543172939777?s=20 …

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        3/n Moreover, I personally find the entire focus of the piece strange. I do not think it is reasonably possible to accurately estimate the GLOBAL IFR (infection fatality rate/ratio) of COVID-19
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      4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 29

        The POPULATION fatality rate in the U.S. - i.e. the number of people who have died of COVID-19 in the entire country - is about 0.17% Assuming 100% of the country has had COVID-19 (they haven't), that's still more than 0.15%

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      5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 29

        More realistic estimates of the proportion of people who have been infected in the U.S. gives us about 100 million infections (roughly) With 550k deaths, that's an IFR in the U.S. of ~0.55%

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      6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK Mar 29

        And that's probably quite a large underestimate. There's strong evidence from excess mortality calculations that the COVID-19 toll is underestimated quite a bit in the U.S.

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      1. o rly?‏ @Reasonableques3 Mar 29
        Replying to @GidMK

        It was predictable it would be (mis)used in this way. It’s one of the reasons trying to derive a singular figure for ‘global IFR’ is arguably a deliberate attempt to mislead, even before you delve in to the methodology & conclusions

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      1. Jonathan2106‏ @2cities2worlds Mar 29
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        Exactly. Even if the GLOBAL IFR was 0.15%, it is still much higher than the GLOBAL IFR of seasonal flu. It was obvious that it would be used to compare to the US/European CFR of seasonal flu.

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      2. Nicole Petersen‏ @tweetnicolepete Mar 29
        Replying to @GidMK

        One would think the guy who said this in May 2020 would want to quietly fade into the bushes a la Homer Simpson. And yet here we are.pic.twitter.com/macvfTD09J

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      3. joe rojas-burke‏ @rojasburke Mar 30
        Replying to @tweetnicolepete @GidMK

        awful, even when read in the context of the full article by Ioannidishttps://www.statnews.com/2020/03/17/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data/ …

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      1. Balgor‏ @Balgor11 Mar 29
        Replying to @GidMK

        Of course covid cranks are going to use it as evidence that it’s just da flu brah! Flu hasn’t killed that many people in the US since 1918, they always miss that fact.

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