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Looking at the current state of affairs worldwide and what we've seen in person - is this virus less of a danger (to the majority of us) than we initially thought?
Some figures/food for thought:
(https://www.mass.gov/doc/covid-19-dashboard-may-6-2020/download)
Some figures/food for thought:
- "Among people <70 years old, infection fatality rates ranged from 0.00% to 0.26% ... Most studies were done in pandemic epicenters and the few studies done in locations with more modest death burden also suggested lower infection fatality rates."
- (Global Study: The infection fatality rate of COVID-19 inferred from seroprevalence data)
- T-Cells may neutralise the virus without developing antibodies, meaning the actual rate of infection could be far higher than antibody tests suggest.
- Sunetra Gupta, Oxford epidemiologist, defends her view that the "virus has passed through the UK's population". Claims infection fatality rate could be "as low as 0.01%".
- Death rate by age group in Massachusetts
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(https://www.mass.gov/doc/covid-19-dashboard-may-6-2020/download)
- Rate of hospitalisation is now estimated to be 102.5 per 100,000 infections, or 1% of cases require hospitalisation.
- (CDC, updated weekly)