Re:Covid-19 at a homeless shelter in Boston: Implications fo...
by w0utert on Wednesday April 15, 2020 @04:00PM
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I think it’s fair to assume most people are mostly interested in statistics that give an indication of the likelihood of dying from a Covid-19 infection, which means you would have to look at the infection mortality rate and not the CFR. So in that sense I think it actually would be somewhat comforting if if it turns out many more people have already been infected than previously assumed. But just to be clear, I don’t want to pretend anyone can reliably claim this considering we still don’t have enough data to create models that can be used to approximate infection rates.
That said, your definition is also in common usage and less ambiguous.