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I'll go with the CDC data, which pegs it at about 0.6%: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/201
by gilbetron 5y ago
I'll go with the CDC data, which pegs it at about 0.6%:
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...
I was a fan of Ioannidis when he put out the estimates, but he has lost me since then. I'd rather go with the massive amount of researchers that have built their career studying these things, than the guy from a different field that feels he is better than everyone.
I mean, if your networks ops people are telling you the cause of a problem in your web application, and a manager comes in from another team and says he ran tcpdump and he thinks they are all wrong, and then the networks ops people show what he did wrong with tcpdump, but the manager sticks to his guns, who are you going to believe?
- KennyBlanken 5y agoThe man ran around screaming about how COVID wasn't a big deal and thus we needed to stop with the lockdowns and whatnot. As our ERs, ICUs, and morgues were overwhelmed. Which is still repeatedly happening, in regions with low vaccination and poor pandemic health regulations/orders. Except now it's lots of kids too young to get the vaccine or below age of being able to get the vaccine on their own without parental approval. It would be exceedingly kind to say his "this isn't a big deal, not that many people percentage-wise are dying"...was at best incredibly heartless.