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What's the latest IFR for Covid vs. flu? Last I read it was 1% vs. 0.1%.
by c0g 6y ago
What's the latest IFR for Covid vs. flu? Last I read it was 1% vs. 0.1%.
- aaron695 6y agoI haven't seen anything credible (with supporting studies) saying as high as 1% since March. It's probably below .4% Depends on the population age. But probably reasonably below .4% "Across 51 locations, the median COVID-19 infection fatality rate was 0.27%" https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/BLT.20.265892.pdf https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/BLT.20.265892.pdf I suspect it will continue to drop. It seems to hit those it harms the most first and spreads quickly with them. Plus medical is getting better.
- nl 6y agoMeta analysis shows an average of 0.68%[1], slowly decreasing as treatments get more effective. [1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1201971220321809 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197122...
- throwawaysea 6y agoIt’s about 0.6% COVID versus 0.1% seasonal influenza in the US. However, note that the latter figure is the IFR for the “typical” flu. The sentence quoted notes “all other flu-like viruses” - of which there are varieties that are less and more dangerous. Given that qualifier, the quoted sentence doesn’t seem obviously false to me.