Re:Biden to mandate coronavirus vaccine for federal workers
by quotemstr on Friday September 10, 2021 @08:16AM
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> The current case fatality rate is averaging around 2%, but that's with access to medical care.
This is an order of magnitude off from what the data actually say.
https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
See table 4.
Delta: total cases: 92,029 Deaths within 28 days: 117
100 * (117 / 92,029) = 0.127%
No, not anywhere close to 2%. 5%? 10%? It never got anywhere near that.
This disease just isn't that deadly and we need to recognize that.
Re:Biden to mandate coronavirus vaccine for federal workers
by zhdc1 on Friday September 10, 2021 @09:13AM
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Your pamphlet was published in June, at the start of the Delta-variant infection spike. On average, it takes eighteen days before someone infected with COVID-19 passes away from it.
The UK had 769 COVID-19 related deaths over the last week, which was up from 654 the week before. Source: https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthan...
The UK has had a total case fatality rate of 1.9%. Source: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
Re:Biden to mandate coronavirus vaccine for federal workers
by kylebyproxy on Friday September 10, 2021 @09:45AM
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> This disease just isn't that deadly
Vs. 4.6M dead worldwide, discounting 2nd order excess deaths.
How can you be so blithe?
The current case fatality rate is averaging around 2%, but that's with access to medical care.
The CFR at the early stages of the pandemic, and in countries without good medical systems, is much higher. See Italy during the first wave, which peaked at around 15%, or several Central and South American countries, which have averaged between 5% and 10%.