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>one death >over 200 people That's like ~ 0.5% IFR which is quite close to the widely cited 0.68% IFR estimation (from 2020, for the original strain): https:
by r721 4y ago
>one death
>over 200 people
That's like ~ 0.5% IFR which is quite close to the widely cited 0.68% IFR estimation (from 2020, for the original strain):
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33007452/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33007452/
- mlyle 4y agoThat's 0.5% fatality rate, not infection fatality rate. Likely "everyone" in the town didn't actually get it-- it may have been an overwhelming majority but probably some people lucked out. So the anecdote shared is even closer to the center of the range of expectations than you imply :D