That’s interesting. Over the weekend I wrote a monte carlo simulation for the Iceland data incorporating a bunch of stuff including a lognormal fit to know median and mean time from confirmation to death. Going to write it up, but the TLDR: the posterior assigns most of it’s mass to the 0.2 to 0.4 range for reasonable settings. Want to do something similar for Diamond Princess and other places.
I expect the real IFR will vary of course based on age structure, cofactors (air pollution seems to be important, especially in Italy), and of course the rather larger differences in coroner reporting standards across jurisdictions and over time.
You can avoid alot of that by looking for excess mortality—which right now seems null in europe except for in Italy. But Spain has about the same cases and deaths per capita and no excess mortality.
That’s interesting. Over the weekend I wrote a monte carlo simulation for the Iceland data incorporating a bunch of stuff including a lognormal fit to know median and mean time from confirmation to death. Going to write it up, but the TLDR: the posterior assigns most of it’s mass to the 0.2 to 0.4 range for reasonable settings. Want to do something similar for Diamond Princess and other places.
I expect the real IFR will vary of course based on age structure, cofactors (air pollution seems to be important, especially in Italy), and of course the rather larger differences in coroner reporting standards across jurisdictions and over time.
You can avoid alot of that by looking for excess mortality—which right now seems null in europe except for in Italy. But Spain has about the same cases and deaths per capita and no excess mortality.