So do you have some infection fatality rates for influenza...

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22/10/20

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Originally posted by Menta: ↑

WHO’s COVID infection number when compared to death number indicates virus no more dangerous than flu

According to WHO’s executive director of emergencies, about '10 percent of the global population may have been infected by this virus.' With only 1,061,539 deaths attributed to the virus, this means that there is an infection fatality rate of roughly 0.14%, which is right in line with seasonal flu.

..Given a world population of approximately 7.8billion people, the total number of COVID-19 infections would be around 780 million individuals. With “the global death toll currently attributed to Sars-Cov-2 infections at 1,061,539,” this would equate to “an infection fatality rate of roughly 0.14%,” which Knightly affirms is “right in line with seasonal flu,” along with the research and “predictions of many experts from all around the world.”

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/whos-covid-infection-number-when-compared-to-death-number-indicates-virus-no-more-dangerous-than-flu

Yet health authorities and political leaders who followed the advice of experts whose forecasts were outrageously wrong continue their lockdown lunacy while still ignoring those experts who were right all along. A classic case of politics and agendas over science and logic.

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So do you have some infection fatality rates for influenza determined by the serology as per Ioannidis's paper and methodology?

The paper I linked looked at a whole lot of studies that calculated case fatality rates for the 2009 influenza pandemic based either (a) laboratory confirmation, (b) symptoms or (c) serology. The numbers I quoted was from the (c) serology grouping so appear to me to be the closest analogue and best comparison to Ioannidis's work.

What evidence does Kit Knightly, a reporter/contributor for the "Off Guardian", have for his statement "right in line with seasonal flu"? Is he just quoting what are essentially case fatality rates from confirmed infections much the same as are generally quoted for Covid-19 and which Ioannidis is attempting to refine to infection fatality rate? And how does the current US Covid-19 mortality figure of 227k (which is about 2/3 of their excess deaths) gel with the typical range for seasonal flu of, from memory, 20k to 60k? Wouldn't the US mortality numbers be even higher if Americans weren't trying to reduce their infection risk?
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