Thread by @vakibs

I am not sure the fatality rate of Covid-19 is even 1%. It is probably < 0.5%. Many infected people are most probably undetected and not showing any symptoms.

I am very annoyed why these true numbers for fatality rate have not come out yet. It has almost been a year with this.

https://twitter.com/socialistdogmom/status/1329956316220190724

An important factor influencing fatality seems to be that viral load of infection that people got. People who are likely to get a high dose of viral load (like from working in hospitals) are also reporting higher fatalities. Again, this is also conjecture and there’s no data yet!

Why is all this so unclear in a pandemic that has been screwing the world economy for almost a year!? I have no idea, but I am disappointed in how science is getting done in today’s era. We have so much more possibilities in this era of big data and massive computation.. 😕🙄

Here is an early article from Siddhartha Mukherjee talking about the effect of viral load in Covid-19 fatalities. I am looking to see articles connecting this to data. Please tell me if you know of any.

newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…