Quote from: o_e_l_e_o on March 02, 2021, 08:50:51 PM

Quote from: Poker Player on March 02, 2021, 06:37:57 PM

I don't know how you have the gall to say that when you are blatantly making up things you want to be true without presenting any evidence. You're presenting isolated statistics that don't prove anything.

The statistics prove exactly what they set out to prove. If you don't agree with them, then present some evidence to the contrary.

Quote from: Poker Player on March 02, 2021, 06:37:57 PM

That I have not presented evidence? I have presented you with WHO articles, articles published in Nature, in the BMJ.

The article you have linked says COVID has a death rate of 0.27% on average, which works out as 270 per 100,000. The CDC puts the mortality rate for flu at 1.8 per 100,000, while the KFF puts it at 2.8. Using that paper to draw the conclusion that "mortality from COVID is not much different than mortality from the flu" is incorrect.

A study of 135,000 patients: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30527-0/fulltext

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In-hospital mortality was higher in patients with COVID-19 than in patients with influenza ([16·9%] vs [5·8%])

The death rate of 0.27% looks very low in my opinion. Globally we have 115m COVID cases with roughly 2.55m deaths. So the death rate seems to be more around 1.6%. It is probably hard to attribute the deaths of COVID directly to the illness and not some other diseases. Another thing is that we already have a lot of elderly people vaccinated now, so the death rate shoulld be dropping in the near future. I would expect we will see more COVID cases in the next few months because the younger generations are not yet vaccinated and a dropping death rate.