Re: death rate

[robert <http://dummy.us.eu.org/robert>]

 > From: Noelle <noelle>
 > Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2020 11:51:05 -0700 (PDT)
 >
 > but aren't the cruise ship guests skew toward elder, more old than 
 > general population?

That's a good point.  It may be an example of a worse-case scenario.
Don't know.

 > On Sat, 18 Apr 2020, robert wrote:
 >  >  > From: Noelle <noelle>
 >  >  > Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2020 11:36:35 -0700 (PDT)
 >  >  >
 >  >  > https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/17/us/coronavirus-death-rate.html
 >  > 
 >  > It seems like you really care about the exposure fatal rate.  So, with the
 >  > testing in South Korea and the case of the cruise ship seem like the best
 >  > models for this, which means that the IFR is between 1.6% and 2%.  Which
 >  > is still ridiculously high.  So, besides being very annoying, could lead
 >  > to death.  Which is usually a bummer.