#ifr

Anthony Fauci, in march of 2020, published in the New England Journal of Medicine that Covid-19 has a case fatality rate (once you get it what are your chances of dying) similar to the ordinary flu, a

I learned something new about COVID today, and my impression before-hand turned out to be very, very wrong. tl;dr - People entering the hospital with COVID have about a 45% chance of dying, and that ratio

Various sources I've seen suggest that the infection fatality rate for the non-elderly without serious co-morbidities may be around .04 (0.04%), much higher than influenza, but probably not worth shutting

From aggressive testing of cooped-up populations in homeless shelters and prisons, we are beginning to learn the true prevalence of the virus. It remains to be seen how many of the inmates will develop

The infection fatality rate (IFR) is not always lower than the confirmed case fatality ratio (cCFR or just) you initially estimate for a new disease. Initial estimates can be really wrong in both directions.