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Old 07-09-2020, 07:37 PM
Scott h Scott h is offline
 
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Originally Posted by EZM View Post
No idea who these "authors" are ......... but they need a math lesson .....

Canada


107,000 cases and 8,800 deaths

That's roughly a 8% death rate in Canada. Source = government's own website.

The same story goes for the US, government's own website would dispute your "authors" as well as virtually every other credible entity but we all love a great story. Good fairy tales require great authors I guess.
A large part of the difference in the CFR is that the CMA has built into their calculation an assumption that only 50% of the cases in the community will be counted. They also tried to account for the covid deaths that will be missed.
For those that feel a CFR of 2% is nothing to worry about, they may not be aware that the CRF for the infamous "Spanish Flu" was 2.5%.