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You are misusing statistics here. You are dividing confirmed covid deaths by estimated covid infections, and that's not really valid. When researchers study t
by timoth3y 5y ago
You are misusing statistics here.
You are dividing confirmed covid deaths by estimated covid infections, and that's not really valid.
When researchers study those with natural immunity, they examine people who are confirmed to have had covid before, so the CFR is the right number to use.
BTW, In the US covid has a CFR of 2%. It is not an "overestimate." It's not even an estimate. It's just what the number is. Obviously that number changes depending on the time frame, and it is (thankfully) dropping.
- MatteoFrigo 5y agoYou said "covid kills about 2% of those who get it". Are you taking issue with the best available estimate of how many people "got it"? If not, your statement would imply that covid killed 5M people in the US, which is almost all the deaths in the US in the past two years.