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That's arbitrary. What's the death rate for severe flu? If I define severe to be "throwing a fever of greater than 42 C" it'll be really high.
by dnautics 7y ago
That's arbitrary. What's the death rate for severe flu? If I define severe to be "throwing a fever of greater than 42 C" it'll be really high.
- mellavora 7y agoflu mortality is about 0.1% though, like Covid, varies by age group/pre-existing. Also varies by strain/year
- isbadawi 7y agoThe parent's point is about the metric of "death rate for severe cases", which is ambiguous depending on how you define severe. You could pick a definition of severe such that the death rate is 100%, but that wouldn't be super useful.
- xiphias2 7y agoThe running trial gives the definitions, it's not ambigous as you wouldn't be able to run a Phase III trial without it.