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I argue there is inherently less sampling bias in this study than testing people at the hospital who have shown up due to severe symptoms.
by CodeWriter23 6y ago
I argue there is inherently less sampling bias in this study than testing people at the hospital who have shown up due to severe symptoms.
- ineedasername 6y agoThose are the people who constitute the denominator for the CFR. It's a completely different metric. You would never try to impute population exposure from such cases. This study is trying to to impute population exposure. There isn't any comparison between the two in terms of which has more/less selection bias, they are completely different things.
- CodeWriter23 6y agoDidn’t stop the news media from tabulating a death rate based on hospital cases alone.
- greedo 6y agoThat's because all of the statistical reporting is whacked up across the globe. The only thing that can reasonably be measured now is CFR. Without extensive, reliable serological testing with high specificity, IFR can only be guessed at.