CDC COVID case fatality rate

There's death. And there's sick, and really sick.....

For the same age groups:

How many people are hospitalized?

How many end up in the ICU?

How many have ongoing problems after being sick (whether they were hospitalized or not)?

If this disease is a protean as I think it is, you won't have the answer to #3 for a long time.

I believe the overall hospitalization rate is less than 10% of those who are symptomatic (too lazy to look it up), and only about 20% of those end up in the ICU (too lazy to look that up as well).

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jon-nyc

NYC simply falsifies that.

Forget CFR - if the Infection Fatality Rate were that low then that implies 97% of NYC has been infected.

jon-nyc

Again if that were IFR Westchester would be over 50% infected.

It’s no where near that.

jon-nyc

0.25% of New York’s total population had died from the virus.

And that number is the pre-covid population. Many scores of thousands have left the city.

Loki

Okay, I didn’t read it wrong. The CDC is wrong. That’s the suggestion, right?

jon-nyc

I didn’t read it at all. It’s possible you are misinterpreting it.

But what you report in this thread is totally inconsistent with the reality on the ground in the places with severe breakouts.

LuFins Dad

In a national scale, it would mean 10% of the population has had it.

For NYC, there had been predictions in April that up to 20% of the population had had COVID. https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/494324-27m-new-yorkers-have-had-coronavirus-preliminary-data-shows.

It would be logical to assume an even higher percentage by now as the case counts have increased. Let’s say 25% or 2,125,000 cases. 22000 deaths divided by 2125000 would be 1.035%

jon-nyc

The CDCs number implies that over 95% of NYC had it and was symptomatic.

Surely we can agree that didn’t happen.

LuFins Dad

That’s the problem when you try to apply a national average (and I’m not agreeing to the national average or the math that brought us to that number) to a localized outbreak. Especially for a disease that seems to have several strains of various magnitude.

I am suggesting that a 1% CFR in NYC is plausible and it’s plausible for other outbreaks to have a lower CFR. But bringing it down to.26% seems difficult to believe!

jon-nyc

Right but also it’s not just any localized outbreak. It is the main outbreak, still accounting for 1/5 of cases and deaths in the US.

Seems like you can’t really say “my model is what’s really going on, that stuff in NYC? Not sure what’s up with that. Must be an aberration”.

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Horace

I don't think the data from 3 weeks ago support these numbers either.

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CDC COVID case fatality rate