| numberwang said: WHO says that 10% or 780 million have been infected so far (compared to 36 million positive pcr tests and 1 million 'covid involved death') 1. Global CFR is 0.14% and thus comparable to the flu. Considering that CFR was probably higher at the beginning, it is now lower than 0.14% and will continue to drop. 2. Testing random people was completely useless, missing >95% of covid anyway. |
WHO says that 10% or 780 million have been infected so far? No they didn't say that.
According to your own source Dr. Ryan said that current best estimates tell us that about 10% of the global population may have been infected by this virus.
Global CFR is 0.14%? No, since the case fatality rate (CFR) is defined as the proportion of deaths among confirmed cases of the disease:
Testing random people was completely useless? No. Of course it is much less effective than testing people with symptoms or who had contacts to infected people. But the infected people they found with random tests helped slowing down the spread, didn't it?
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