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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Sure, but that's almost certainly largely to do with testing. Impossible to evaluate if/how much IFR has dropped from CFR in most cases
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