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The corona clampdown: are we just being silly over sniffles?

19 April 2020

5:19 PM

19 April 2020

5:19 PM

There has been a lot of confusion around COVID-19 statistics and what they means. The fundamental problem is that there is inadequate data as far as the statistics of the disease itself is concerned, how the data are collected and what it all means.

First, you have what is called Infection Fatality Rate, or IFR.

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