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Re:Anders Tegnell defends Sweden's virus approach by xorfish on Thursday June 04, 2020 @04:08AM (#23413969)
Scientists and the WHO estimated the IFR to be around 1% in February. Most models that estimate fatalities use that number as well.

That estimate has hardly changed.

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Re:Anders Tegnell defends Sweden's virus approach by thu2111 on Thursday June 04, 2020 @11:07AM (#23417593)
1%?!

CDC current estimate is around 0.2% and that's certainly still too high, for various reasons.

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Re:Anders Tegnell defends Sweden's virus approach by xorfish on Thursday June 04, 2020 @11:31AM (#23417960)
Seems highly unlikely, excess mortality is nearly 0.3% of NYC. You would need 150% of NYC to be infected to get to 0.2%.

Many seroprevalence studies with prevalence >5% also show that the IFR is in the region of 1%.

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Re:Anders Tegnell defends Sweden's virus approach by thu2111 on Thursday June 04, 2020 @02:29PM (#23420057)
https://reason.com/2020/05/24/the-cdcs-new-best-estimate-imp...

"The CDC's New 'Best Estimate' Implies a COVID-19 Infection Fatality Rate Below 0.3%"

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Re:Anders Tegnell defends Sweden's virus approach by xorfish on Friday June 05, 2020 @04:49AM (#23426384)
What is the basis for this best estimate?
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Re:Anders Tegnell defends Sweden's virus approach by thu2111 on Friday June 05, 2020 @09:38AM (#23428359)
It states that in the article.
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