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Let's take John out of the discussion. On Oct 05 the WHO officially announced there were 750m cases worldwide. On that day their official fatality count was ~
by just-juan-post 6y ago
Let's take John out of the discussion.
On Oct 05 the WHO officially announced there were 750m cases worldwide. On that day their official fatality count was ~1m. This comes out to an IFR of 0.13%
Do you have an issues with this statistic as well?
- JungleGymSam 6y agoNo rebuttals. Just downvotes. That'll teach you a lesson, right?? edit: Oh no! Someone downvoted this comment? Whatever will I do?!
- dang 6y agoWould you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? We're trying for something different here. We've had to ask you about this before. If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and sticking to the rules when posting here, we'd be grateful.
- SummerlyMars 6y agoWhere are you getting 750m cases from? Their own dashboard only shows 35m. https://covid19.who.int/ https://covid19.who.int/
- bhk 6y agoProbably referring to this: https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-archive-united-nations-54a3a5869c9ae4ee623497691e796083 https://apnews.com/article/virus-outbreak-archive-united-nat...
- disgruntledphd2 6y agoThose numbers are entirely different. The 750mn cases is an estimate based on seroprevalence studies. The 1mn deaths are based on deaths following a positive PCR test. A more appropriate comparison is 1mn deaths over 35mn cases, leading to a CFR of over 2%. Odd how no one ever quotes that number.