COVID-19 CFR 0.125%
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-bearer-of-good-coronavirus-news-11587746176
Stanford scientist John Ioannidis finds himself under attack for questioning the prevailing wisdom about lockdowns.
#READTHIS (Cf. @BritHume)
https://medium.com/six-four-six-nine/evidence-over-hysteria-covid-19-1b767def5894
On a per-capita basis, we shouldn’t be panicking
Every country has a different population size which skews aggregate and cumulative case comparisons.
https://www.dailywire.com/news/stanford-professor-data-indicates-were-overreacting-to-coronavirus
“reasonable estimates for the case fatality ratio in general U.S. population vary from 0.05% to 1%.”
“even some common-cold-type coronaviruses known for decades can have case fatality rates as high as 8% when they infect elderly people in nursing homes.”
“Adding these extra sources of uncertainty, reasonable estimates for the case fatality ratio in the general U.S. population vary from 0.05% to 1%.”
“For those who argue that the high fatality rate among elderly people indicates that the death rate cannot be as low as 0.05%, the professor notes that “even some so-called mild or common-cold-type coronaviruses that have been known for decades can have case fatality rates as high as 8% when they infect elderly people in nursing homes.”
Covid-19, has been called a once-in-a-century pandemic. But it may also be a once-in-a-century evidence fiasco.