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Saying that the fatality rate is around 1% is pure fear mongering. Maybe 1% for highly at risk populations like elderly and immune compromised people but nowhe
by bequanna 3y ago
Saying that the fatality rate is around 1% is pure fear mongering.
Maybe 1% for highly at risk populations like elderly and immune compromised people but nowhere near 1% for the general population.
- rbanffy 3y agoI got the data from https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid https://ourworldindata.org/mortality-risk-covid which, recently, uses WHO data. In the case of the US, this is probably CDC’s. I probably should have noted that, initially, when COVID tests were scarce or non-existing because at that time a diagnosis implied symptoms. Still, the numbers are not as off as GP claimed. One number that still seems to hold is a 50% fatality rate for patients admitted to ICU (I just checked with a doctor friend)