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I’d refer back to the absence of evidence for many asymptomatic cases relative to symptomatic cases. WHO looked at 320k background tests and less than 0.5% wer

I’d refer back to the absence of evidence for many asymptomatic cases relative to symptomatic cases. WHO looked at 320k background tests and less than 0.5% were positive.

Blackstone4 7y ago
From the article: "We re-estimated mortality rates by dividing the number of deaths on a given day by the number of patients with confirmed COVID-19 infection 14 days before." From this I understand that if a patient was infected but was not tested and confirmed until a later date, they would not be included in the denominator. Hence the denominator may be artificially low and thereby inflating the mortality rate.