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Nobody knows the true asymptomatic rate, but even if it is 5o% the number of people that will be killed is massive. Let’s not get caught up on the final death
by danieltillett 7y ago
Nobody knows the true asymptomatic rate, but even if it is 5o% the number of people that will be killed is massive.
Let’s not get caught up on the final death rate and let’s look at what we can do right now.
- _-___________-_ 7y agoThe OP literally opens with a misinterpreted statistic. It links to an article about CFR and claims that the values are IFR instead of CFR. This is not "getting caught up on something", I'm pointing out a fundamental error. Most serious estimates of IFR are between 0.1 and 0.6%. The OP should be edited to either correctly state that COVID-19 kills between 1 and 3.5% of identified cases, or be updated to use numbers that are not misleading.
- danieltillett 7y agoThese IFR numbers you quote are also incorrect as there are many people infected who have not yet had time to die. The best estimate probably comes from South Korea (they seem to be picking up nearly all cases with their massive contact tracking and testing) where the death rate is at 1.8% and trending higher.
- _-___________-_ 7y agoThen why not link to a study about the IFR in South Korea? My point is that the claim you make about the percentage of people who are infected that die is not supported at all by the article that the claim links to, which only discusses the percentage of confirmed cases that die.
- danieltillett 7y agoBecause the whole issue of IFR is irrelevant to my argument and the range provided is wide enough to cover all estimates.