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Re:Infection fatality rate of Covid-19 inferred from seropre... by morsch on Saturday October 17, 2020 @04:34PM (#24813085)
a) IFR is in fact higher according to that research, and b) US roads are far more dangerous than UK roads.
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Re:Infection fatality rate of Covid-19 inferred from seropre... by petertodd on Saturday October 17, 2020 @05:00PM (#24813331)
> IFR is in fact higher according to that research,

By "that research" you mean https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.23.20160895v... right?

Because it actually gives a slightly lower IFR than the CDC at age 55 (0.4% vs 0.5%), not higher. So I'm not sure what you mean.

> US roads are far more dangerous than UK roads.

Yes, according to the WHO(1) the US has a 3.6x higher mortality rate from car accidents than the UK, which gets us to 90x higher for the age group I quoted.

Anyway, I didn't want to contradict that figure. Just give perspective.

1)https://www.who.int/violence_injury_prevention/road_safety_s...

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