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Covid’s IFR just keeps dropping
Off-Guardian ^ | Kit Knightly

Posted on 04/22/2021 2:20:19 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2

New study says the infection fatality ratio of the “deadly virus” has fallen from 3.4% to 0.15%…that’s plummeting 95% in less than a year

With every new study, with every new paper, the “deadly” pandemic gets less and less, well, deadly. The most recent data review, published in late March, puts the infection fatality ratio (IFR) at 0.15%.

That is, once again, pretty much the same as a normal flu season.

The new paper is the work of Dr John Ioannidis, whom you likely remember. He is an eminent epidemiologist and statistician who publicly urged the need for “good data” last spring.

Do you remember last spring? The blissful days of never having even heard of “infection fatality ratio”? (I do. Fondly.)

The phrase really rose to prominence last year, after the World Health Organization (WHO) announced the IFR of the scary new virus was 3.4%.

This is not, in and of itself, especially high. But it is significantly higher than most cold/flu viruses.

Around the same time, somebody (or multiple somebodies) actually edited the Wikipedia page of the Spanish Flu, to change its IFR and make it seem like Covid was just as dangerous. Who did this remains a mystery, although why has become fairly obvious.

At the time, many experts (such as those listed in our 12 Experts article) predicted the actual IFR of “Covid” would be much, much lower than the WHO’s estimate, and that this would become clear as new data were gathered...

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Peer-reviewed study here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/eci.13554
1 posted on 04/22/2021 2:20:19 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: ReaganGeneration2

IBK


2 posted on 04/22/2021 2:21:16 AM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: ReaganGeneration2

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/eci.13554


3 posted on 04/22/2021 2:23:46 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: SeekAndFind

Ping


4 posted on 04/22/2021 2:24:26 AM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: ReaganGeneration2

We approach herd immunity
We have lots of vaccines
IFR has dropped to 0.15%

And people still seem to be panicking.


5 posted on 04/22/2021 2:29:11 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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To: ClearCase_guy
Gosh, I just cannot *imagine* why that should be.


6 posted on 04/22/2021 2:33:34 AM PDT by Salamander (Salamander has barbaric tendencies.../Gundog)
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To: ClearCase_guy

From the article:
‘As the real IFR of Covid is revealed to be lower (and lower, and lower) than the original estimates, it moves further and further into line with the basic background risk of just being alive.

Still, don’t forget to take that experimental gene-therapy “vaccine”. We don’t know if they’re completely safe yet, because long-term trials won’t finish for two years, and the technology has never been used on humans before, but still…you’ve only got a 99.85% chance of survival without it.’


7 posted on 04/22/2021 2:33:57 AM PDT by ReaganGeneration2
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To: ClearCase_guy

but we still need to get the vaccine!!!! hurry hurry and later this year a booster and later the follow year another booster and still wear your masks and stay away from others!!! Some of us can now see the reality


8 posted on 04/22/2021 2:36:33 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: ReaganGeneration2

99.85% chance of survival without vaccine. Vaccine long-term trials completed in two years. Hmmmm


9 posted on 04/22/2021 2:37:28 AM PDT by griswold3
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To: ReaganGeneration2

Keep in mind that Possitivity Rate was coined by CNN.


10 posted on 04/22/2021 2:38:27 AM PDT by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: griswold3
Vaccine long-term trials completed in two years. Hmmmm

Sounds like the short term long term. I'll wait 5 years to see what's shaking then.

11 posted on 04/22/2021 2:41:21 AM PDT by BipolarBob (Jeffrey Epsteins last words "I am not committing suicide".)
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To: ReaganGeneration2

I sense the feeling here in the UK, with a vaccination programme a little ahead of the US, but both well ahead of the rest of the World is, what next?

Looking at our news it’s now back to climate change now that we know COVID-19 is just bad Flu!

So as we get back to normal I’ve seen reports of “one flight per year”, “eat less meat”, “car tolls based upon use” and “no more wood or coal fires at home”.

So back to the old normal rubbish, with a few variants.


12 posted on 04/22/2021 3:11:55 AM PDT by LordOddsocks
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To: ReaganGeneration2

Where’s Kojak? Lol!


13 posted on 04/22/2021 3:15:00 AM PDT by Rocco DiPippo
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To: ReaganGeneration2
I chat with continental Indians frequently (as well the native one in the family room) and they are really concerned about what is happening in Indian with the spread of the virus. Yes, mortality is at 1.15% but it's the numbers of infected as a percentage of their massive population. I know of them lost their mother to covid and could not travel home to be with the family. It's a difficult situation that the chinese communists inflicted on their people with the biological warfare attack, as it is with the entire world.

May those responsible burn in the fires of their own creation.

14 posted on 04/22/2021 3:23:39 AM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists...Socialists...Fascists & AntiFa...Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: ReaganGeneration2

never trust a government that opens its border and distributes thousands of disease carrying invaders across its country during a so called global pandemic...


15 posted on 04/22/2021 3:24:25 AM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value as well as making people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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To: ReaganGeneration2

:: you’ve only got a 99.85% chance of survival without it.’ ::

If you contract it through natural means.

:: it moves further and further into line with the basic background risk of just being alive. ::
^^^^^^^^
THIS.
You are correct, patriot.


16 posted on 04/22/2021 3:53:17 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (Patriots, stop looking at the politicians as enemies. Look at the complicit Legacy Media.)
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To: griswold3

griswold3 wrote:

“99.85% chance of survival without vaccine. Vaccine long-term trials completed in two years. Hmmmm”

If the long term trials don’t finish till 2023, does that mean the shots will stay under EUA’s, and therefore cannot be made mandatory until after then?

Anything under EUA can’t be mandatory; if its out from under EUA and into authorized category, then it can be mandated.


17 posted on 04/22/2021 3:56:06 AM PDT by WildHighlander57 ((WildHighlander57 returning after lurking since 2000))
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To: ReaganGeneration2

99.85% chance of survival without it

I would like to compare that to the survival rate of receiving the experimental injections.

0.15% of croaking from china flu.

X.XX% of croaking from the shot ?


18 posted on 04/22/2021 4:06:33 AM PDT by WinMod70
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To: ReaganGeneration2
I would expect the IFR to fall after a year and after a highly successful vaccine rollout. But I wonder what the IFR is in Brazil and India right now? Somebody should tell them to quit whining about a cold like a bunch of sissies.

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19 posted on 04/22/2021 4:10:56 AM PDT by RC one (When a bunch of commies start telling you that you don't need an AR15, you really need an AR15)
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To: Salamander

In before Kozak?

CC


20 posted on 04/22/2021 4:13:03 AM PDT by Celtic Conservative (My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
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