Thread by @RogueShoeButler, A short interview with John Ioannidis (one of the top statisticians in [...]

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A short interview with John Ioannidis (one of the top statisticians in the world) on a study of infections in Santa Clara County suggesting that the #FatalityRate from the #coronavirus is 0.12–0.2%. comparable to that of #SeasonalFlu. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGUgrEfSgaU">https://www.youtube.com/watch...

BTW, this is what honest science looks like. The study explains bases for doubt about its result.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1.full.pdf">https://www.medrxiv.org/content/1...

You should also read this article by @balajis. It explains reasons why the false positive rate of the antibody test in the #SantaClaraStudy could greatly underestimate the #coronavirus #FatalityRate. https://medium.com/@balajis/peer-review-of-covid-19-antibody-seroprevalence-in-santa-clara-county-california-1f6382258c25">https://medium.com/@balajis/...

Peer Review of “COVID-19 Antibody Seroprevalence in Santa Clara County, California”

The high reported positive rate in this serosurvey may be explained by the false positive rate of the test and/or by sample recruitment…

https://medium.com/@balajis/peer-review-of-covid-19-antibody-seroprevalence-in-santa-clara-county-california-1f6382258c25

For an explanation of why there is so much uncertainty about the potential number of deaths due to the #coronavirus, scroll to the top of this thread: https://twitter.com/RogueShoeButler/status/1245503662392295424">https://twitter.com/RogueShoe...

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