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Transition Layer
Don’t forget…all deaths “with Covid” (not from) are counted.
Bur not all Covid cases are counted. So there’s no way in hell the mortality rate is actually 2%.
That old chestnut. Have a look at the excess mortality charts:
Excess mortality during the Coronavirus pandemic
Excess Deaths Associated with Covid 19
As far as true infection fatality rate goes Australia has been very thorough at testing, tens of thousands of tests whenever there’s an outbreak, so it’s likely we can record most infections when one occurs. And with 30,000 cases and 900 deaths that’s about a 3% IFR.
But we already know that, regardless of the IFR,
the pandemic has had consequential effects on excess mortality and health systems where it has been allowed to run unchecked in unvaccinated populations.