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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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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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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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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More specifically, "Died having had COVID-19 identified as the underlying clinical cause by the treating physician and/or coroner as per CDC guidelines on death certificates"
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3x is an odd claim, but even if it were not it doesn't factor into the calculation for the ~overall~ IFR, only the ~current~ one
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