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Re:How Pfizer delivered a Covid vaccine in record time by iso1210 on Sunday December 13, 2020 @12:40PM (#25408336)
> the prospect of contracting COVID-19 with roughly a 10% probability of developing severe to life-threatening symptoms?

Citation needed. For 45-65 year olds IFR seems to be in the 0.3% rate, for under 45s it's way lower.

Hospitalisations about 2-4 times the number of deaths, so that seems to be in the 1% range for 'severe' symptons if you catch it and are towards the older age of nurses

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Re:How Pfizer delivered a Covid vaccine in record time by monoideism on Sunday December 13, 2020 @01:34PM (#25408862)
You're responding with IFR, which deals with infections (including many asymptomatic) and mortality, when your parent comment is discussing cases and severe morbidity.

That is, you're comparing apples and oranges.

IFR is almost always significantly lower than CFR for infectious diseases. That's particularly the case with Covid.

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Re:How Pfizer delivered a Covid vaccine in record time by iso1210 on Sunday December 13, 2020 @02:59PM (#25409628)
A case is just a detected infection. If you have no tests, then your cases will be low. Your infections will be high.

A "Case Fatality" is a pretty meaningless number. You can't avoid the consequences of covid19 by not being tested.

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