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"Case fatality rate" vs "infection fatality rate"
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2020 Aug 5, 1:29pm 352 views 3 comments
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ForcedTQ
2020 Aug 5, 2:21pm
And it is the infection fatality rate that we should be concerning ourselves with. That is the barometer that most other diseases have been compared to in history and it would be disingenuous to change course now so that the % numbers reported in the media are scary.
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tanked
2020 Aug 5, 8:52pm
There's a 3rd one, mortality. Total number of people who die, divided by the total population.
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PeopleUnited
2020 Aug 5, 9:21pm
PeopleUnited
2020 Aug 5, 9:21pm
Thank you Patrick for raising awareness.
Another thing to be aware of is that it is quite likely that nearly 100% of all living humans must either become infected and survive (~99.7% of us) or not survive (~0.3%). In other words, The China virus is loose, and we all will be infected by it eventually if we don’t die before we are infected that is. That is what Trump means by, “it is what it is.”
So we don’t need to fear the inevitable, and there is nothing political about these facts.
Another thing to be aware of is that it is quite likely that nearly 100% of all living humans must either become infected and survive (~99.7% of us) or not survive (~0.3%). In other words, The China virus is loose, and we all will be infected by it eventually if we don’t die before we are infected that is. That is what Trump means by, “it is what it is.”
So we don’t need to fear the inevitable, and there is nothing political about these facts.
The infection fatality rate is only 0.3%, less than one tenth of the case fatality rate.
That is, only about 0.3% of people who get infected with the virus end up dying from it. The large majority of the infected have very mild symptoms or none at all.
We should be careful to use the right terms.