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>Your 0.7-1% fatality rate is not in line with current figures, which peg it closer to 0.35%. I've been rounding up to 0.5% for the US to account for the poor s
by Gibbon1 7y ago
>Your 0.7-1% fatality rate is not in line with current figures, which peg it closer to 0.35%. I've been rounding up to 0.5% for the US to account for the poor state of health here.
My 0.7-1% fatality rate? What you talking about my? I'm not pulling that out of my keister.
From here.
https://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter/status/1253538428114870277 https://twitter.com/Bob_Wachter/status/1253538428114870277
>11/ Why? 142K confirmed NYC cases, so 21% of city (8.4M) -> 1.76M, or 12.5x confirmed case count, more in sync with other studies. If right, then true mortality rate (~15K deaths in NYC) about 0.8%, which also seems credible. There’ll be lots more of these serology studies soon.
Since you don't know who Robert Watcher is
https://profiles.ucsf.edu/robert.wachter https://profiles.ucsf.edu/robert.wachter