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You have misinterpreted the data. The CDC reports 0.6% fatality rate overall since the start of the pandemic. The fatality rate for vaccinated individuals is way lower, for all variants.

https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

Case fatality rates are completely meaningless and useless. The vast majority of infections never get officially tested or counted as cases.



I'm well calibrated on what CFR is, and I don't disagree that there are better measures. However, the parent made a comment about CFR, and so I updated them with more recent numbers, about CFR, which are 20x higher, so at the very least hints that perhaps their numbers are off.


You’re right. I screwed up by using CFR. Should have said IFR. Mea culpa.


Np! Lots of messiness in the data out there. I hope our data infra gets 8x-64x better in the years ahead. Maybe if we can get there this could be the last pandemic.




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