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mellavora
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Get Real: no drug or vaccine will avoid a very big...
flu mortality is about 0.1% though, like Covid, varies by age group/pre-existing. Also varies by strain/year
isbadawi
on March 4, 2020
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The parent's point is about the metric of "death rate for severe cases", which is ambiguous depending on how you define severe. You could pick a definition of severe such that the death rate is 100%, but that wouldn't be super useful.
xiphias2
on March 4, 2020
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The running trial gives the definitions, it's not ambigous as you wouldn't be able to run a Phase III trial without it.
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