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by cameldrv 2251 days ago
The Ioaniddis survey was a total sham. The true fatality rate will wind up being something like 1-2%, if counted by excess deaths.

A town in Italy, Castiglione d'Adda, had 1.4% of its population die in March. Normally 0.1% dies in a month. That town did a serological survey of blood donors, and 70% came up positive. That exact number won't apply everywhere because there are different age distributions, different comorbibitities, different genes, etc., but that is the ballpark we're looking at.

0.15% of New York City has already died. That should tell you how reliable Ioaniddis' numbers are.