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Really ?? Do you see 10x more deaths than accounted for?? New York, UK and many others did adjust their data for untested deaths. The hidden death count is now in the range of 20-30%.
May be you also do believe that they did antibody tests with dead people ...
No Symptoms means nothing worth to mention. I always have some symptoms if I stay out in the rain for a little bit to long or after to many beers...
I'm sticking with this until you DO understand the data, and also pay attention to what others say - since it is annoying have so many OT posts.
No, not 10X, The official statistics for deaths are usually pretty accurate. Why is that? Because before people die of COVID they usually go to hospital, are diagnosed, tested, form one of the "cases" and then - if they die - one of the official deaths. Even so, we have a significant number of people who die at home not going to hospital, because the disease can get worse very quickly and some people live alone and do not realise. Those are not counted as either cases or deaths if not tested. In the UK we are estimating that excess as around 30% but it has varied.
Is that clear? Now, that is what you said above, when not incorrectly criticising me. And also, that is what I said above, if you bother to read it. So we are in broad agreement.
Whereas the case figures are wildly inaccurate. They vary according to what percentage of those with symptoms go to hospital, and whether home testing is available. Which is the key point.
In the UK I know of MANY people who have had bad symptoms (like a bad case of Flu) but not gone to hospital and not been tested. In some countries with more tests maybe they would be tested. So it is just not true that if you are not counted as a case you have mild symptoms.
Antibody tests are a separate issue. The problem is that 100% antibody tests are expensive to do. With sampled antibody tests the accuracy depends on the statistical accuracy of the sampling (as well as having reasonably accurate tests which not everyone has). Antibody tests tell you how many people have at some time been infected, so they are of course the key thing to determine the Infection Fatality Rate.