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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #400 on: July 12, 2020, 07:30:27 PM »
https://www.theblaze.com/news/cdc-stop-calling-covid-epidemic

So because we're doing more testing the death rate per case is going down so it's not a pandemic.
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #401 on: July 12, 2020, 07:32:29 PM »
So because we're doing more testing the death rate per case is going down so it's not a pandemic.
Cool!
Well isn't a pandemic because of high % death rate?. So if that rate is no longer high only makes sense that its no longer a pandemic.

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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #403 on: July 12, 2020, 08:10:42 PM »
Well isn't a pandemic because of high % death rate?. So if that rate is no longer high only makes sense that its no longer a pandemic.
Well actually a pandemic has nothing at all to do with there even being one death.
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #411 on: July 15, 2020, 02:41:58 PM »

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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #412 on: July 15, 2020, 03:28:59 PM »
im hearing on the radio that some places are reporting 100% positive covid cases in FL? some reporters are investigating this bc it sounds ridiculous
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #413 on: July 15, 2020, 03:33:59 PM »
im hearing on the radio that some places are reporting 100% positive covid cases in FL? some reporters are investigating this bc it sounds ridiculous
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https://www.foxnews.com/health/coronavirus-update-florida-labs-not-reporting-negative-test-results-report
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #414 on: July 15, 2020, 03:45:29 PM »
im hearing on the radio that some places are reporting 100% positive covid cases in FL? some reporters are investigating this bc it sounds ridiculous

There aren't really any usable numbers coming out of FL. They have an insane backlog of tests, and the percentage of positive tests from all the different labs don't add up. Some are at nearly 100% positive, others at 50%, and others at 10%. For now, new and active hospitalizations and available ICU beds are the only somewhat reliable numbers if you're trying to get a grasp on what's happening here.
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #417 on: July 16, 2020, 09:44:43 PM »
https://matzav.com/cdc-coronavirus-death-rate-likely-just-0-26-twice-as-deadly-as-the-flu/
So... the CDC changed the current best estimate of the IFR to .65% (which is much more in line with reality) without telling anyone. I’m waiting to hear some breathless news reports in another couple of weeks about this “breaking news”.

(They also assume that asymptomatic people are 75% as infectious as symptomatic people, and 50% of transmission occurs before symptoms appear).

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html#box
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Re: Interesting Articles: COVID-19 Edition
« Reply #419 on: July 16, 2020, 10:19:13 PM »
So... the CDC changed the current best estimate of the IFR to .65% (which is much more in line with reality) without telling anyone. I’m waiting to hear some breathless news reports in another couple of weeks about this “breaking news”.

(They also assume that asymptomatic people are 75% as infectious as symptomatic people, and 50% of transmission occurs before symptoms appear).

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/hcp/planning-scenarios.html#box
In retrospect, this peer-reviewed study from *March* (which estimates an IFR of .66%) does indeed seem to be quite accurate (according to the CDC’s current best estimate)
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