“3 point 6 percent, not 3 to 6 percent. But those are the bogus Chinese numbers they use, so it’s just junk.”
yeah, ok, they need to change their graph, then, and I guess do some housecleaning. I thought the Lancet was well respected. I guess they will have to close their doors once people like you expose them for the frauds they are.
I went by what they wrote and where they said they got the data.
"As of March 1, 2020, 79 968 patients in China and 7169 outside of China had tested positive for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).1 Among Chinese patients, 2873 deaths had occurred, equivalent to a mortality rate of 3·6% (95% CI 3·5–3·7), while 104 deaths from COVID-19 had been reported outside of China (1·5% [1·2–1·7])."
Aside from having actually read what they said, everybody knows the Chinese numbers are bogus. Garbage In Garbage Out. A lot of legitimate organizations have no other data, though, so they do the best they can with what they've got. just like us.
From mid February to March 1st the Chinese burned 10s of thousands of bodies in Wuhan over their normal numbers according to the crematorium workers.
So you believe what you like, and I will continue to take anything based on Chinese numbers with a giant salt lick.
They state they re-estimated based on the WHO data and that they came up with a 5.6% rate for China and a 15.2 rate for the rest of the world and that they estimated the lines converge at 5.7%, but their estimate is still tainted by the Chinese data. At the end they say it could have been as much as 20% in Wuhan (where the HCS collapsed) but we don't have any numbers for infected or dead out of there other than estimates based on circumstantial data and unsubstantiated "whistleblower" reports because China won't let anybody in to look around. So who knows?
Lancet is the medical version of CNN.