Norway advises citizens to avoid all travel abroad

Re:Norway advises citizens to avoid all travel abroad by iso1210 on Saturday August 08, 2020 @01:10PM (#24093241)

> The overall IFR for this virus is somewhere around 0.1-0.6%

Do you have a good citation for this, because the Biostatics research university at Cambridge have IFR 10 times that.

https://www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/now-casting/

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Re:Norway advises citizens to avoid all travel abroad by irq11 on Saturday August 08, 2020 @11:10PM (#24096965)

That’s just ridiculously, inexcusably wrong. The best estimates have been under 0.7% since March. The CDC current estimate is 0.65%:

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scena...

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Re:Norway advises citizens to avoid all travel abroad by iso1210 on Sunday August 09, 2020 @11:23AM (#24100159)

So the CDC say 0.7% as the best estimate, above even your highest 0.6% statement.

Until recently Cambridge had 0.9%, this has increased recently as more evidence has come out. Taking a 0.7% value would mean that 40% of Brooklyn has had it, a figure not backed by serological tests. Even is 100% of Brooklyn had has covid, that would give and IFR of nearly 0.3%

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