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Re:Swedish expert: why lockdowns are the wrong policy by esoterica on Saturday April 18, 2020 @12:51PM (#22908986)
The WHO never said the infection fatality rate is 3.4%. Here's the actual transcript the number is taken from:

https://www.who.int/dg/speeches/detail/who-director-general-...

> Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died.

They said that 3.4% of REPORTED cases had died, which was true at that point.

> Most thinkers I know and follow widely believe this to be the case as well, it also passes the common sense test.

0.015% of the Swedish population has died so far from the coronavirus. On the other hand ~0.15% of NYC has already died from the coronavirus. If the majority of the Swedish population is already infected, why is the death rate only 1/10th that of NYC? How does that pass the "common sense test"?

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