> Itβs true that the case fatality rate for COVID at this time was about 3.4%. [ ... ] Five months later, the World Health Organization had no option but to publish his paper, which demonstrated the extent to which he was right, showing that the infection fatality rate for coronavirus was not 3.4%, but 0.23%.
So, the author cannot even distinguish between the case fatality rate (CFR) and the infection fatality rate (IFR), which is in serious publications often estimated to be around 0.7% .
I haven't really examined the OP that closely to verify anything you're claiming but FWIW the experts screwed this up enough.
> Almost as a parenthetical afterthought, the NEJM editorial inaccurately stated that 0.1% is the approximate
case fatality rate of seasonal influenza. By contrast, the
World Health Organization (WHO) reported that
0.1% or lower is the approximate influenza infection
fatality rate,5 not the case fatality rate. To fully appreciate the significance of discrepancies in fatality rate
usage by NIAID, the CDC, and the WHO, brief definitions of relevant epidemiological terms follow.
> Itβs true that the case fatality rate for COVID at this time was about 3.4%. [ ... ] Five months later, the World Health Organization had no option but to publish his paper, which demonstrated the extent to which he was right, showing that the infection fatality rate for coronavirus was not 3.4%, but 0.23%.
So, the author cannot even distinguish between the case fatality rate (CFR) and the infection fatality rate (IFR), which is in serious publications often estimated to be around 0.7% .
I don't think this is worth reading further.