Cognitive dissonance: while others spread more panic, WHO study admits Corona and regular flu have same death rate for non-elderly: 1 in 500

Here it is:

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

by

John P A Ioannidis (Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford University, 1265 Welch Road, Stanford, California 94305, United States of America.)

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[On Ioannidis: He is a medical doctor (M.D.), and a Professor of Medicine, Health Research and Policy and Statistics at Stanford University, one of the top ten universities in the United States.

Wiki: Located near San Fancisco, Stanford University, […] is a private research university in Stanford, California. Stanford is considered one of the most prestigious universities in the world by numerous major education publications.^{[13][14][15] [….]}

As of October 2020, 85 Nobel laureates, […] have been affiliated with Stanford as students, alumni, faculty, or staff.

[….] Stanford is the alma mater of one president of the United States (Herbert Hoover), 74 living billionaires, and 17 astronauts.^[51]

Wiki on the author:

John P. A. Ioannidis (/ˌiəˈniːdəs/; el:Ιωάννης Ιωαννίδης, Greek pronunciation: [i.ɔ.ˈa.nis i.ɔ.aˈni.ðis]^[1][2]; born August 21, 1965) is a Greek-American physician-scientist, writer and Stanford University professor who has made contributions to evidence-based medicine, epidemiology, and clinical research. Ioannidis studies scientific research itself, meta-research primarily in clinical medicine and the social sciences.

Ioannidis’ paper on “Why Most Published Research Findings are False” has been the most-accessed article in the history of Public Library of Science (over 3 million views in 2020).^[3][4]

Ioannidis has been a prominent opponent of prolonged lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic.^[5][6]

[…] He graduated in the top rank of his class at the University of Athens Medical School, then attended Harvard University for his medical residency in internal medicine. He did a fellowship at Tufts University for infectious disease.^[10]

[….] Ioannidis has received numerous awards and honorary titles and he is a member of the U.S. National Academy of Medicine,^[42] of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts and an Einstein Fellow.^[13] In 2019, Ioannidis was awarded the NIH‘s Robert S. Gordon, Jr. Lecture in Epidemiology.^[43]

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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)

[Their link:  https://www.who.int/bulletin/online_first/BLT.20.265892.pdf My link on my site: covid-flu-who-bulletin-14-oct-2020]

 

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Objective

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

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%): […] In people < [this means “less than”] 70 years, infection fatality rates ranged from 0.00% to 0.31% with crude and corrected medians of 0.05%.

Conclusion

[….] The inferred infection fatality rates tended to be much lower than estimates made earlier in the pandemic.

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AND WHAT IS THE FLU DEATH RATE?

In a “normal” flu season, we expect 0.1 to 0.2 % deaths among the non-elderly (under 70).

Covid is therefore just barely worse than the regular flu!

 

Wiki on the flu — it kills the very sick and elderly (and just 1% of the elderly!!!!)

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influenza)

“Estimated Influenza Illnesses, Medical visits, Hospitalizations, and Deaths in the United States – 2018–2019 influenza season”. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). 9 January 2020. Retrieved 5 March 2020.