Is Covid-19 making us irrational?

Re:Is Covid-19 making us irrational? by nradov on Saturday August 21, 2021 @03:49PM (#28259972)

Please stop spreading misinformation about a serious subject. CDC data shows that the fatality rate in the US has been 0.6% since the beginning of the pandemic, so your claim of 1.7% is simply a lie. And fatality rates for vaccinated people are virtually zero.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

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Re:Is Covid-19 making us irrational? by _Microft on Saturday August 21, 2021 @04:18PM (#28260214)

> Please stop spreading misinformation about a serious subject.

That's pretty harsh. They are referring to the case fatality rate ("CFR") while you are referring to the estimated infection fatality rate ("IFR").

Edit: OK, I usually don't do that but please tell me in which way parent's comment is possibly better than a comment like this would have been: "Looks like you are referring to the CFR. That's a bad way to measure fatality rate and the CDC has an estimate for the IFR anyways. You can find it here."

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