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0.25% IFR is for very young countries (why Africa is mostly spared). The situation is a lot direr with older populations... "In contrast, in a typical high inc

by brohee 6y ago

0.25% IFR is for very young countries (why Africa is mostly spared). The situation is a lot direr with older populations... "In contrast, in a typical high income country, with a greater concentration of elderly individuals, we estimate the overall IFR to be 1.15%" from https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-analysis/covid-19/report-34-IFR/ https://www.imperial.ac.uk/mrc-global-infectious-disease-ana...

rossdavidh 6y ago
The result which I saw, from John Ionaddis here https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/BLT.20.265892.pdf https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/BLT.20.265892.pdf "Across 51 locations, the median COVID-19 infection fatality rate was 0.27% (corrected 0.23%)" ...but I grant you that there is some uncertainty.