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You 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. So
by yread 5y ago
You 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.