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The CDC's New 'Best Estimate' Implies a COVID-19 Infection Fatality Rate Below 0.3%
reason.com ^ | 5-25-20 | Jacob Sullum

Posted on 05/25/2020 4:15:28 PM PDT by NoLibZone

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To: TigersEye
If the number of people who die at home is vanishingly small the number who died of Covid is even smaller and wouldn't add enough to the official count to mean anything.

What I said was those people don't get autopsied, so your point about lung damage tipping the ME off that it was Covid doesnt hold.

121 posted on 05/26/2020 8:59:55 PM PDT by semimojo
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How many people have died at home never diagnosed with Covid?

You said that before I said anything about autopsies.

post #96

Was that not meant to counter my point that the 100k figure is wrong and has been adjusted down? If not what did it mean?

122 posted on 05/26/2020 9:08:26 PM PDT by TigersEye (If you see me wearing a mask ... don't assume I'm wearing it for Covid-19.)
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To: TigersEye
If not what did it mean?

Many who died of Covid at home early on, particularly in NY, weren’t classified as such.

We weren’t doing postmortem testing and certainly not doing autopsies.

We did see a spike in home deaths that can’t be explained otherwise.

I said it to counter your statement that we weren’t at 100k deaths yet. We don’t know exactly how many deaths we have but even if there are no uncounted home deaths we’ll be well over 100k within days by anyone’s count so I’m not sure what your point is.

123 posted on 05/26/2020 9:24:55 PM PDT by semimojo
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To: semimojo
Many who died of Covid at home early on, particularly in NY, weren’t classified as such.

That's true. But those who died at home are a vanishingly small number of people. Someone I trust implicitly told me so.

The rate for chronically ill elderly people who die in bed at home is probably vanishingly small. post #109

124 posted on 05/26/2020 9:29:53 PM PDT by TigersEye (If you see me wearing a mask ... don't assume I'm wearing it for Covid-19.)
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To: semimojo
I posted:

The overall autopsy rate in the US is well under 15%.

The rate for chronically ill elderly people who die in bed at home is probably vanishingly small.

I’m clearly talking about the autopsy rate for old sick people who die at home.

Night.

125 posted on 05/26/2020 9:42:47 PM PDT by semimojo
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I said it to counter your statement that we weren’t at 100k deaths yet.

The rate for chronically ill elderly people who die in bed at home is probably vanishingly small.

You really don't see the contradiction in logic in those two statements?

LOL Goodnight, Gracie.

126 posted on 05/26/2020 9:49:05 PM PDT by TigersEye (If you see me wearing a mask ... don't assume I'm wearing it for Covid-19.)
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One of these days; a few thousand Richard Dreyfuss types are going to remove their masks...

127 posted on 05/27/2020 3:08:22 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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