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[–]danuker 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Infection rate is difficult to estimate. I do not trust the studies. I use death rate because deaths are comparable between countries.

[–]Jesus[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

All the pubmed atufies I've tead have averaged out to around .11% in endemic areas. So, if you take into account this infection rate with the death risk, which is less than 1% for 18 year olds, and less than 1% for 45 year olds but close to 8% for 75+ year olds, that will give you the mortality rate which is 0.002%.

I'm writing a piece about all of this so I'll have the relevant studies then.