[[That’s been nagging at me too. When they talk about mortality rate, is the only denominator they are using based on CONFIRMED cases and not adding undetected ones?]]
Dont’ quote me on this- but i read years ago something about that but don’t quite remember it- I think what i remember is that they come up with ‘acceptable guesstimates based on statistics’ (ie something like there is always a % that will never go to docs no matter what- some that will but ignore doctor’s advice, won’t get tested, but show symptoms, etc- )- and remember there being a pretty large, but accepted leeway, due to variables- when making projections about something like this-
I Think a proper result should include a spread between known cases and unknown- so like it should read ‘known cases = 3%, while factoring in an accepted % of unknown cases might yield a final result of only .3%”
That would certainly clear things up and allow us to compare to other flues if they had the same spread system-
Your question would be a good one to ask an online doc about- if we could find one that isn’t swamped with work lol-
The mortality rate is not the issue, it is the morbidity rate coupled with the shear size of the percentage that sad experience now tells us WILL need a respirator to survive.