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article by John Ioannidis, MD. Key paragraphs: "The data collected so far on how many people are infected and how the epidemic is evolving are utterly unreliab
by skmurphy 7y ago
article by John Ioannidis, MD. Key paragraphs:
"The data collected so far on how many people are infected and how the epidemic is evolving are utterly unreliable. Given the limited testing to date, some deaths and probably the vast majority of infections due to SARS-CoV-2 are being missed. We don’t know if we are failing to capture infections by a factor of three or 300."
He infers that the true case fatality rate has a very broad range, but lower than what was announced by WHO:
"the real death rate could stretch from five times lower (0.025%) to five times higher (0.625%)