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The Chief Scientist of the WHO still believed as recently as August that the mortality rate for this virus was still at 1% [1], even though Sweden had published

The Chief Scientist of the WHO still believed as recently as August that the mortality rate for this virus was still at 1% [1], even though Sweden had published its first data at the start of that month saying that the mortality rate in their case was around 0.4-0.6%. I've seen people mentioning a more recent CDC number of 0.35% mortality. So, when even the Chief Scientist of the WHO doesn't know what she's talking about then based on what premises will the YT censors carry out the censorship? [1] https://www.theweek.co.uk/108312/coalition-scientists-call-for-uk-herd-immunity-plan-could-it-work https://www.theweek.co.uk/108312/coalition-scientists-call-f...

dogma1138 6y ago
Mortality rates change, they are also dependent environmental factors including population genetics, diet, prevalence of pre-existing conditions and the quality and availability of medical care. The statistics around case mortality rate and overall mortality rate also changes as new and more reliable data is gathered and analyzed, the WHO estimates was quite likely “correct” for the time frame and data they had available. The fact that Sweden published a data set that contradicts that doesn’t make their assumption false, or that “they don’t know what they are talking about”.
- hartator 6y ago
  The WHO was arguing until February that covid-19 wasn’t transmissible person to person. They don’t know what they are doing.
summerlight 6y ago
I don't buy mortality numbers around 0.3 ~ 0.5%; South Korea's data shows 1.76% mortality rate[1], which probably has collected one of the most comprehensive COVID-19 case database in the world as well as good medical infrastructures. [1] https://www.cdc.go.kr/board/board.es?mid=a20501000000&bid=0015&list_no=710848&act=view https://www.cdc.go.kr/board/board.es?mid=a20501000000&bid=00...

dogma1138 6y ago

Mortality rates change, they are also dependent environmental factors including population genetics, diet, prevalence of pre-existing conditions and the quality and availability of medical care. The statistics around case mortality rate and overall mortality rate also changes as new and more reliable data is gathered and analyzed, the WHO estimates was quite likely “correct” for the time frame and data they had available. The fact that Sweden published a data set that contradicts that doesn’t make their assumption false, or that “they don’t know what they are talking about”.

hartator 6y ago
The WHO was arguing until February that covid-19 wasn’t transmissible person to person. They don’t know what they are doing.

summerlight 6y ago

I don't buy mortality numbers around 0.3 ~ 0.5%; South Korea's data shows 1.76% mortality rate[1], which probably has collected one of the most comprehensive COVID-19 case database in the world as well as good medical infrastructures. [1] https://www.cdc.go.kr/board/board.es?mid=a20501000000&bid=0015&list_no=710848&act=view https://www.cdc.go.kr/board/board.es?mid=a20501000000&bid=00...