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According to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ , among US closed cases, 8% of people w
by chipuni 6y ago
According to https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/ , among US closed cases, 8% of people who test positive for Covid-19 die.
(BIG CLUE: Use closed cases for estimating mortality of an illness.)
- albntomat0 6y agoIs that not heavily distorted by how tests are distributed, as not everyone ends up getting tested?
- kulahan 6y agoAlso, it's kind of a self-selecting population. This statistic is likely skewed towards those with an infection bad enough to warrant getting a test in the first place.
- xamuel 6y agoLOL, if Covid had an 8% death rate, do you really think politicians would still be walking around? No, they'd all be boarding submarines! The CDC's most recent estimate is more like 0.65% and that's probably still an overestimate