Re:Millions are missing from the workforce due to Covid-19
by Izkata on Saturday January 28, 2023 @03:02PM
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> > polio
> Fatality rate of up to 30% and debilitating post-effects in up to 50%.
Only if you developed paralytic polio. Those percents don't apply to the polio virus in general. Only 3% ever developed anything worse than flu-like symptoms, and paralytic polio was something like 10% of that 3%. (I'm going from memory here, these numbers are on the CDC website)
So we're talking an IFR around 0.1%, very close to the estimated flu IFR of 0.07%
> Fatality rate of up to 30% and debilitating post-effects in up to 50%.
Only if you developed paralytic polio. Those percents don't apply to the polio virus in general. Only 3% ever developed anything worse than flu-like symptoms, and paralytic polio was something like 10% of that 3%. (I'm going from memory here, these numbers are on the CDC website)
So we're talking an IFR around 0.1%, very close to the estimated flu IFR of 0.07%