Hacker News Reader

0.25% of the US has already died of COVID-19. It doesn't matter who said it, how can 0.02% be a reasonable estimate for the IFR of the disease?

View on HN

This was already explained upthread: "the death count is exaggerated because the criteria for a Covid death is that a person is dead and also tests positive for Covid regardless of how the person really died."

This is a lie, likely a deliberate one.

https://www.reuters.com/article/uk-factcheck-94-percent-covi...

You should go back to the person who told you this lie and ask them why they did it. A simple accounting of excess deaths ( https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss/vsrr/covid19/excess_deaths.htm ) is all you need to dispel the notion of a 0.02% fatality rate.

Jay Bhattacharya is a professor of medicine at Stanford University

That’s from sep 2020. I think professor Bhattacharya is aware of the numbers.

> I think professor Bhattacharya is aware of the numbers.

Professor Bhattacharya is apparently one of the main instigators of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Barrington_Declaration .

So I think he is fudging the numbers.

> "the death count is exaggerated

By a factor of ten?!?

Reply on news.ycombinator.com