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0.25% of the US has already died of COVID-19. It doesn't matter who said it, how can 0.02% be a reasonable estimate for the IFR of the disease?
by saalweachter 5y ago
0.25% of the US has already died of COVID-19. It doesn't matter who said it, how can 0.02% be a reasonable estimate for the IFR of the disease?
- josephcsible 5y agoThis was already explained upthread: "the death count is exaggerated because the criteria for a Covid death is that a person is dead and also tests positive for Covid regardless of how the person really died."
- CamperBob2 5y agoThis is a lie, likely a deliberate one. https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-94-percent-covid-among-caus/fact-check-94-of-individuals-with-additional-causes-of-death-still-had-covid-19-idUSKBN25U2IO https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-94-percent-covi... You should go back to the person who told you this lie and ask them why they did it. A simple accounting of excess deaths ( https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm ) is all you need to dispel the notion of a 0.02% fatality rate.
- supperburg 5y agoJay Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford University That’s from sep 2020. I think professor Bhattacharya is aware of the numbers.
- CRConrad 5y ago> I think professor Bhattacharya is aware of the numbers. Professor Bhattacharya is apparently one of the main instigators of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrington_Declaration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrington_Declaration . So I think he is fudging the numbers.
- CRConrad 5y ago> "the death count is exaggerated By a factor of ten?!?