{"id":2554,"date":"2020-03-20T01:57:27","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T01:57:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/?p=2554"},"modified":"2020-04-26T04:01:33","modified_gmt":"2020-04-26T04:01:33","slug":"covid-19-cfr-0-125","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/?p=2554","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19 CFR 0.125%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-bearer-of-good-coronavirus-news-11587746176\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/the-bearer-of-good-coronavirus-news-11587746176<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stanford scientist John Ioannidis finds himself under attack for questioning the prevailing wisdom about lockdowns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>#READTHIS (Cf. @BritHume)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/six-four-six-nine\/evidence-over-hysteria-covid-19-1b767def5894\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/medium.com\/six-four-six-nine\/evidence-over-hysteria-covid-19-1b767def5894<\/a><\/p>\n<p>On a per-capita basis, we shouldn\u2019t be panicking<br>Every country has a different population size which skews aggregate and cumulative case comparisons.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-file\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/medium.com-Evidence-over-hysteria-COVID-19.pdf\">medium.com-Evidence over hysteria  COVID-19<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/medium.com-Evidence-over-hysteria-COVID-19.pdf\" class=\"wp-block-file__button\" download>Download<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/stanford-professor-data-indicates-were-overreacting-to-coronavirus\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/stanford-professor-data-indicates-were-overreacting-to-coronavirus<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201creasonable estimates for the case fatality ratio in general U.S. population vary from 0.05% to 1%.\u201d<br>\u201ceven 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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%.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;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 \u201ceven 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2020\/03\/17\/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2020\/03\/17\/a-fiasco-in-the-making-as-the-coronavirus-pandemic-takes-hold-we-are-making-decisions-without-reliable-data\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Covid-19, has been called a once-in-a-century pandemic. But it may also be a once-in-a-century evidence fiasco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6d2at\" data-offset-key=\"b65je-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"b65je-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"b65je-0-0\">#WuhanFLU<\/span> <span data-offset-key=\"b65je-2-0\">#ChineseCoronaVirus<\/span><span data-offset-key=\"b65je-3-0\"> mortality rates<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6d2at\" data-offset-key=\"a2omd-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"a2omd-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"a2omd-0-0\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6d2at\" data-offset-key=\"acf94-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"acf94-0-0\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cebm.net\/global-covid-19-case-fatality-rates\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span data-offset-key=\"acf94-0-0\">https:\/\/www.cebm.net\/global-covid-19-case-fatality-rates\/<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6d2at\" data-offset-key=\"4c49a-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"4c49a-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"4c49a-0-0\">Estimating COVID-19 CFR (Case Fatality Rate)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6d2at\" data-offset-key=\"3opc1-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"3opc1-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"3opc1-0-0\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6d2at\" data-offset-key=\"a56jr-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"a56jr-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"a56jr-0-0\">Our current best assumption, as of the 17th March, is the CFR in &gt; 70s is approximately 1%.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6d2at\" data-offset-key=\"fueoa-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"fueoa-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"fueoa-0-0\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"6d2at\" data-offset-key=\"64brj-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"64brj-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"64brj-0-0\">In the total population, it\u2019s about 0.125%<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019t be panickingEvery 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 \u201creasonable estimates for the case fatality ratio in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2554"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2972,"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2554\/revisions\/2972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mediamalpractice.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}