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Re:Renewed questions about the virus, and hard-to-face answers by allturtles on Monday June 28, 2021 @06:25PM (#27669064)
Did you ignore the GP's first sentence? For 0.15% to be right either the death #s have to be significantly overinflated, or more than 100% of the U.S. population must have been infected with COVID.

0.5 and 0.27 are both larger #s than 0.15, so that supports the GP's point.

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Re:Renewed questions about the virus, and hard-to-face answers by nradov on Monday June 28, 2021 @08:08PM (#27669958)
The 0.15% IFR estimate is a worldwide number. There is a significant variance between countries. Unfortunately Americans on average are older, sicker, and fatter so they tend to die more.
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