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Maybe from John Hopkins[1]? According to them, U.S. had fatality rate of 1.6%, albeit they use confirmed infections of 38.7 million vs. CDC estimates of 120 mil
by glenneroo 5y ago
Maybe from John Hopkins[1]? According to them, U.S. had fatality rate of 1.6%, albeit they use confirmed infections of 38.7 million vs. CDC estimates of 120 million.
Edit: It seems like CDC is inflating their infection rates compared to almost every other source. According to this[1] they also are more in-line with John Hopkins infection rates.
To note, mortality is rather similar in all sources I can find, but only CDC says 120 million were infected.
[0] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
[1] https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid?country=~USA https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid?country=~USA
- nradov 5y agoThe CDC infection estimate is in no way inflated. If anything it's an undercount due to false negative test results.
- glenneroo 5y agoSo then why are all other sources showing much lower infection rates? I can't find what the date ranges are for John Hopkins' data. OurWorldInData says Feb 2020-Aug 27, 2021. The CDC link from GP says February 2020–May 2021.
- nradov 5y agoYour links give the fatality rate for confirmed cases, which is basically useless. For the most part only people with significant symptoms bother to get tested and counted as cases, which skews the fatality rate artificially high. What matters is the actual fatality rate over all infections. The CDC documented their estimation methods on their site if you want to get into the details.