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2.5% is not accurate. 4.4 million confirmed UK cases. It's widely known that a large number of cases were never reported/confirmed.
by throwitaway1235 5y ago
2.5% is not accurate. 4.4 million confirmed UK cases. It's widely known that a large number of cases were never reported/confirmed.
- ChrisRR 5y agoThere's also the discrepancy that the UK counts deaths within 28 days of a covid diagnosis. So while it's statistically likely that most people did die due to covid, some won't have I wonder how much those two even out
- LatteLazy 5y agoOp says the death rate is 0.02%. We have a whole bunch of figures for the death count, all around or above 112k but let's take the much lower 85k excess deaths for just 2020 [0] 85k / 0.0002 would mean 425 million people had had covid in England. England only has 55 million people. [0] https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1137 https://www.bmj.com/content/373/bmj.n1137 If you don't like my number, please suggest your own. But anyone saying 99.98% survive is being silly.
- bandana 5y ago600k excess deaths in the US, which is 0.02% of the 328 million population - ie, 99.98% of the us population survived the virus in 2020. Is it silly ? Edit : it is, my bad, added a zero. It should read 0.2%, not 0.02%.
- perl4ever 5y agoAnother way to look at it is that in January, when things were worst, weekly deaths from everything were about 50% higher than "normal" for 2015-19. That's not precisely the same as covid-19 deaths, nor does it represent the whole of 2020, but it's pretty staggering and suggests what would happen if it was left untreated.
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- ChrisRR 5y agoErrrrr you do know you don't count people who haven't had the virus in survival rates, right? If they haven't had it, they haven't survived it.