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0 pointsquotemstr4y ago0 comments

> 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.

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zhdc14y ago

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

kylebyproxy4y ago

> This disease just isn't that deadly

Vs. 4.6M dead worldwide, discounting 2nd order excess deaths.

How can you be so blithe?

quotemstrOP4y ago

The world has almost eight billion people.

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