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Re:California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulativ... by glofish on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @06:40PM (#23621287)
case fatality rate is the observed death rate based on known cases

infection fatality rate is the observed death rate based on all (known+undetected) cases

the Swedish report indicates of infection fatality rate of 0.1%

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Re:California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulativ... by greedo on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @07:27PM (#23621743)
<the Swedish report indicates of infection fatality rate of 0.1%>

That's incorrect. The IFR in Stockholm (the epicenter for COVID-19) in Sweden is .6% currently [0]. Only if you exclude anyone above 70 do you get an IFR of .1%. According to [1] 20% of the population is 65 and older, roughly 2m people.

[0]https://www.folkhalsomyndigheten.se/contentassets/53c0dc391b...

[1]https://www.indexmundi.com/sweden/demographics_profile.html

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Re:California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulativ... by glofish on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @07:51PM (#23621977)
ok, valid point I recalled it incorrectly,

FWIW the IFR is getting tiny as for younger people so using the the same preventive measures for low risk people that we use for high risk ones does not make much sense

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Re:California sets Covid-19 daily record, Bay Area cumulativ... by greedo on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @07:56PM (#23622027)
The issue is that's completely impractical in our society to expect to be able to protect the 30-40% at risk from the 60% that has a lower level of risk.
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