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1. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 30-May-2020 22:32:34 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
   Scientists question #CDC's estimates of #COVID-19 death rates https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stephaniemlee/coronavirus-cdc-infection-fatality-rate [www buzzfeednews com]
   
   I thought their "best estimate" was several times too low, just based on published numbers (JHU and other trackers). My calculator said that around 50 million US residents would have to have been infected to hit 100 thousand deaths. We have the deaths, but no one is suggesting that nearly 1 in 7 Americans have already been infected.
   • LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 30-May-2020 23:54:08 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
     @guizzy I’m not talking about the CFR. I’m taking the CDC’s estimate and dividing into the number of known deaths to get the number of infections. 100K deaths, 0.2%, 50M infections. Except that nobody believes that fifty million people are infected.