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Re:Renewed questions about the virus, and hard-to-face answers by nradov on Monday June 28, 2021 @11:48PM (#27671539)
No you're just making up numbers and picking outlier countries. If there is a more accurate estimate for worldwide IFR then please provide a citation.
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Re:Renewed questions about the virus, and hard-to-face answers by raphlinus on Tuesday June 29, 2021 @02:06AM (#27672389)
For people who are curious about this and want to read further than the original Ioannidis and the Meyerowitz-Katz papers, here are two citations I found enlightening. The first is a frequentist analysis that is age-stratified, so is likely to control for the rather different age structures in different countries[1]. The second is a Bayesian approach[2]. Both seem pretty reasonable to me, and don't display obvious axes to grind.

[1]: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33289900/

[2]: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.05.12.21256975v...

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