What percentage of those who are infected with these variants or subvariants will die?
*THAT* is the most important question.
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It’s really not. The correct question is how many will die? Period. Full stop. If you have 20% death out of 100 infected, that’s 20 dead. If you have 0.1% dead out of 330 million infected, that’s 330,000 dead.
Death count, not rate, is all that matters.
RE: Death count, not rate, is all that matters.
OK, what are the death counts from Omicron in the USA since it has been discovered here, and of the 7% detected ( as per the CDC ) that are BA.4 and BA.5, how many have died?
I’d like to compare the death counts to those who died of flu/influenza.
Death count, not rate, is all that matters.
You $hot $hill$ are the biggest liars going. That’s the biggest steaming pile of BS I have probably ever seen on FR.
What a classic example of how to lie with statistics. You aren’t even making anywhere near a valid comparison.
To be valid, compare the death rate of 100 people with a 0.1% death rate and you have 100 people who will survive the illness instead of 20 who die with a 20% death rate.
Or with the 330 million, a 20% death rate is 66,000,000 people dying vs a 0.1 % death rate of 330,000.
What is important to the person who gets sick is what their chances of dying from the disease are. The overall death rate means squat when you are the one sick and stand a 1:5 chance of dying vs a 1/10 of 1% chance of dying.
You $hot $hill$ are just evil.