Based on a systematic review and meta-analysis of published evidence on COVID-19 until May, 2020, the IFR of the disease across populations is 0.64% (0.50-0.78%). However, due to very high heterogeneity in the meta-analysis, it is difficult to know if this represents the true point estimate. It is likely that different places will experience different IFRs. More research looking at age-stratified IFR is urgently needed to inform policy-making on this front.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.05.03.20089854v3

50x to 80x more people have this DEADLY virus, so the real death percentages, you can divide them by the same factor !

2 minutes ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

50x to 80x more people have this DEADLY virus, so the real death percentages, you can divide them by the same factor !

377,000 deaths globally (so far), close to 40,000 in the UK. That's a lot of dead people no matter what metrics you use.

4 hours ago, Phil McCaverty said:

377,000 deaths globally (so far), close to 40,000 in the UK. That's a lot of dead people no matter what metrics you use.

Indeed, a lot of death, and there are so many more:
 

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5,462,582 Communicable disease deaths this year

204,949 Seasonal flu deaths this year

3,198,451 Deaths of children under 5 this year

130,061 Deaths of mothers during birth this year

41,835,618 HIV/AIDS infected people

707,375 Deaths caused by HIV/AIDS this year

3,455,919 Deaths caused by cancer this year

412,746 Deaths caused by malaria this year

2,103,545 Deaths caused by smoking this year

1,052,436 Deaths caused by alcohol this year

451,234 Suicides this year

568,024Road traffic accident fatalities this year

Source: Worldometer snapshot at exactly this moment, from https://www.worldometers.info

Let's start with the highest numbers, and do something to reduce them.
 

1 hour ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

compare it to death rate numbers the last year, the previous one ...

 

slight increase, no double, triple, pandemic whatever...

 

people die

 

7 minutes ago, yuyiinthesky said:

Source: Worldometer snapshot at exactly this moment, from https://www.worldometers.info

Let's start with the highest numbers, and do something to reduce them.

We can do something about Covid now. Do you think 377,000 deaths is insignificant?

 

The figures for covid are for the last 3 months. If we do nothing the numbers will rise exponentially. Check out the figures for Spanish Flu in 1918.

 

 

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1 hour ago, Phil McCaverty said:

 

We can do something about Covid now. Do you think 377,000 deaths is insignificant?

 

The figures for covid are for the last 3 months. If we do nothing the numbers will rise exponentially. Check out the figures for Spanish Flu in 1918.

 

 

look at daily numbers, they are going down for most, there is a curve

 

some countries are late bloomers

 

people die every day in the world

 

the sick, the old, the weak

 

650.000 per year of flu alone and corona is on the way down... 

 

and in some countries, they count EVERYBODY that died of other things, WITH corona, not FROM corona

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On 5/30/2020 at 9:41 AM, yuyiinthesky said:

Calling any US politician a marxist is an insult to Karl Marx. 

At least he didn't try blame Hillary or Soros.   So could have been more cringey. ????

 

I guess "I don't take responsibility at all" bunker boy is somehow totally absolved in all this.  He's only responsible for good things that happen. ????

 

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13 hours ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

some countries are late bloomers

You mean like the whole of South America and the whole of Africa? This ain't over yet.

Is there a website where we can see an update to the Thailand travel restriction? I can't find information anywhere when I do a Duckduckgo search.

On 6/2/2020 at 4:30 PM, Phil McCaverty said:

Do you think 377,000 deaths is insignificant?

It is not very nice from you to impute that I would think deaths would be insignificant.

 

You could have noticed from my post that I think that every death matters, every single one, including the ones nobody cares about, by focussing on one problem only, and making the others, such as cancer, even worse.