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Message: <blockquote data-quote="imhotep" data-source="post: 25881765" data-attributes="member: 562115">The Chinese stated "Severe Pneumonia" as the cause of death. Also they juggle with the CFR & IFR. There are two ways that the death rate is stated. The Case Fatality Rate & the Infection Fatality Rate.  CFR is the ratio of the number of deaths divided by the number of confirmed (by PCR) cases of disease.  IFR is the ratio of deaths divided by the number of actual infections with SARS-CoV-2.  The IFR can be significantly lower then the CFR.Lat's say 100 people have been infected with Covid-19. Ten of them have it so severely that they go into hospital, where they test positive for Covid-19. The other 90 are not tested at all. One of the hospital patients then dies from the virus. The other 99 people survive.That would give a case fatality rate of one in 10, or 10%. But the infection fatality rate would be just one in 100, or 1%.</blockquote>

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