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Take anything from Ioannidis with a huge grain of salt. His first californian seroprevalence study was flawed. NYC or Czech Republic had higher share of populat
by yread 5y ago
Take anything from Ioannidis with a huge grain of salt. His first californian seroprevalence study was flawed. NYC or Czech Republic had higher share of population die of covid so the cfr is probably higher.
- nradov 5y agoThat is a peer reviewed study published by the WHO. If you have something better than an ad hominem attack then please provide the citation.
- yread 5y agoYou have to understand limitation of this study. This is not a best estimate for CFR or IFR. This is an estimate based on a review of seroprevalence studies. Some of them are complete crap (IFR 0.0%!), a lot of them are biased towards taking samples from people who went through an influenza like illness recently. And even if done perfectly about 5% of people had some antibodies against coronaviruses even way before the pandemic so there is some background level that should be subtracted from the seroprevalence but almost never is.
- nradov 5y agoI read the study and understand the limitations. So far it's the best estimate of worldwide IFR. If you have something better then please provide a citation.
- disgruntledphd2 5y agoPeer reviewed has never meant, and will never mean, correct. In general arguing that a particular authors contributions in an area have been less than stellar is not an ad hominem attack.