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by lern_too_spel 2277 days ago
Where are you getting this 0.4% number from? Korea is testing extensively, so CFR is very close to IFR, and CFR is above 1%.
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No it isn't. If you are asking someone where they get numbers from them write some incorrect numbers in the pursuit of whatever agenda is not a good look.

As of Monday,

- 274,504 people tested

- 8,400 cases

- 81 deaths

- 0.96% CFR

> so CFR is very close to IFR

On what basis do you make that statement. It's clearly indefensible

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/coronav...

> If you are asking someone where they get numbers from them write some incorrect numbers in the pursuit of whatever agenda is not a good look.

> As of Monday

> - 81 deaths

> - 0.96% CFR

I should say the same of you. Why are you posting numbers from 5 days ago? As of yesterday when I made that comment, Korea has 102 deaths and 1.16% CFR.

>> so CFR is very close to IFR

> On what basis do you make that statement. It's clearly indefensible

On the basis of the beginning of that same sentence, which you inexplicably did not quote.

That provides no basis? Feel free to elaborate
The more you test, the closer C will be to I.
What? That makes no sense
> Where are you getting this 0.4% number from? Korea is testing extensively, so CFR is very close to IFR, and CFR is above 1%.

That's not how CFR works, and I was referring to this data [1] which showed folks under 30 with a CFR of 0%, 30-50 at 0.1% and 50-59 at 0.4%, and a total of around 0.69% at the time the data was published.

[1] https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-death-rates-by-a...

> and I was referring to this data [1]

You were referring to data more than a week old, when the infected cases had neither time to recover nor time to die. The latest figure from yesterday is 1.16% of all cases according to JHU.

> That's not how CFR works

That is exactly how CFR works. If you test more people, C will be closer to I.

No cfr is only I at the end of the epidemic. Either way I slides the data based on those likely exposed.
No. IFR is mortality rate at the end of the epidemic. CFR exactly matches IFR if all infections are diagnosed.
No because you don’t know how many of them will die. In your definition you know the R not the F. Look, I’m quoting the WHO report. You’re welcome to take it up with them.
R is ratio or risk. It is directly computed from C and F just as it is directly computed from I and F.

I don't seen any quotes in your comment.