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by bbeez 2253 days ago
I’ve seen these reports but I don’t understand the math. The true simple CFR meeting actual deaths as reported over actual cases as reported should be adjusted for the course of disease which would make it in places like Italy well over 10% and in other places perhaps 4-6. % or more and we know China’s data, the only place with a major outbreak where it’s really run its course, is bullshit. How do you get to 0.1%? Maybe I’m missing something here but you’d have to believe there were probably 50-100 times the Number of reported cases that were actual cases which would mean the US would have to have had 50-100 million people already have contracted the disease but 98-99 pct of them had no idea. I’m not seeing that as a passes the smell test possibility. But again maybe I missing something here.