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Nice link. I appreciate that page, actually. Hadn't seen it. However, this is with all of the interventions, plus vaccines in. It's with the curve flattened as
by azinman2 5y ago
Nice link. I appreciate that page, actually. Hadn't seen it.
However, this is with all of the interventions, plus vaccines in. It's with the curve flattened as much as all of the interventions allowed.
What you don't have is the counterfactual of what would have happened with no intervention of a highly contagious air-borne virus, and a matching health care collapse. In the beginning we were closer to 1% and higher in some places. This is US stats, where people have access to higher quality healthcare than much of the world (and vaccines), plus mixed interventions (since local/state dictated much of that).
- nradov 5y agoWe were never higher than a 1% fatality rate in any place. The high rates that some people estimated early in the pandemic were due to garbage data from very limited testing of asymptomatic cases. The CDC did a more thorough analysis and estimated a 0.6% infection fatality rate back when no one was vaccinated.
- edmundsauto 5y agoWasn’t that before Delta and Onicron?
- throwaway22032 5y agoAlso before vaccination and prior infection. Either or both of those mean that the risk involved with catching Delta or Omicron is generally far lower than it would have been had they just "appeared" in March 2020.