.@ScottAdamsSays Trump's statement that 99% of people survive a coronavirus infection is actually pretty correct. That's the infection fatality rate that has been estimated to be ~1% (with confidence intervals!) since we first got good data from the cruise ship outbreaks.
@jeremyfaust points out that the antibody surveys done since then have not really changed this estimate, at least the ones that have been done well:
Dr Faust wrote about it in March. The thing that many people (not he) seem to overlook though is that if for example 100 million people get infected and 1% die...that's a lot of deaths. slate.com/technology/202…
As the infection fatality rate and the case fatality rate are still confusing a lot of people, I'm just linking to a paper here that explains the differences. 😇 intereconomics.eu/contents/year/…
