Stanford/WHO Study: Incorrect COVID19 infection fatality rate

[Teutone]

Publication: Bulletin of the World Health Organization; Type: Research
Article ID: BLT.20.265892
Page 1 of 37
John P A Ioannidis
Infection fatality rate of COVID-19
This online first version has been peer-reviewed, accepted and edited,
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Infection fatality rate of COVID-19 inferred from
seroprevalence data
John P A Ioannidisa

Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, 1265 Welch Road,
Stanford, California 94305, United States of America.
Correspondence to John P A Ioannidis (email: jioannid@stanford.edu).
(Submitted: 13 May 2020 – Revised version received: 13 September 2020 – Accepted: 15 September 2020
– Published online: 14 October 2020)

Objective:
To estimate the infection fatality rate of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)
from seroprevalence data.

Methods:
I searched PubMed and preprint servers for COVID-19 seroprevalence
studies with a sample size  500 as of 9 September, 2020. I also retrieved additional results
of national studies from preliminary press releases and reports. I assessed the studies for
design features and seroprevalence estimates. I estimated the infection fatality rate for
each study by dividing the number of COVID-19 deaths by the number of people estimated
to be infected in each region. I corrected for the number of antibody types tested
(immunoglobin, IgG, IgM, IgA).

Results:
I included 61 studies (74 estimates) and eight preliminary national
estimates. Seroprevalence estimates ranged from 0.02% to 53.40%. Infection fatality rates
ranged from 0.00% to 1.63%, corrected values from 0.00% to 1.54%. Across 51 locations,
the median COVID-19 infection fatality rate was 0.27% (corrected 0.23%): the rate was
0.09% in locations with COVID-19 population mortality rates less than the global average
(< 118 deaths/million), 0.20% in locations with 118–500 COVID-19 deaths/million people
and 0.57% in locations with > 500 COVID-19 deaths/million people. In people < 70 years,
infection fatality rates ranged from 0.00% to 0.31% with crude and corrected medians of
0.05%.

Conclusion:
The infection fatality rate of COVID-19 can vary substantially across
different locations and this may reflect differences in population age structure and case￾mix of infected and deceased patients and other factors. The inferred infection fatality rates
tended to be much lower than estimates made earlier in the pandemic.


Study: https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_....20.265892.pdf

[El_Abominacion]

the rate was
0.09% in locations with COVID-19 population mortality rates less than the global average
(< 118 deaths/million)

We destroyed first world economies for this

[alexsandro22]

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