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> some countries were having 10% mortality Huh? Like 1 in 10 people that caught the virus died? Where do you think this happened? This may have been true for
by ifyoubuildit 3y ago
> some countries were having 10% mortality
Huh? Like 1 in 10 people that caught the virus died? Where do you think this happened?
This may have been true for very tiny portions of the pouplation, like people over the age of 90 (who had a 20% ifr according to https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(21)02867-1/fulltext https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...) but otherwise the country with the highest ifr seems to be portugal at 2%, and even that would have been heavily concentrated in those who were at risk of death from just about anything due to age and comorbidities.
- FrustratedMonky 3y agoItaly. Early on when we still didn't know what was happening, Italy was reporting those numbers. It was later, after we had lockdown that it turned out that maybe it was a select groups, and it was older and over-weight Italians. I'd try to take the time to find a reference if I cared anymore about all the counter-counter-counter opinions in this thread.