Ctrl+F “CFR” & “IFR” = 0 results. Apologies if you used different terminology here but I feel it is worth pointing out that CFR has cratered in many nations, even those with high case counts and high testing rates. The old assumption of ~.5-1% IFR seems to be thoroughly passed its use-by date. For highly vaxed populations current IFR is probably sub 0.1% overall, with the same qualifiers about age/morbidity profile etc.
Particularly of interest is Australia, which could be said to have had a lot of ‘dry tinder’ given the lack of pre-omicron deaths overall, and experienced a fairly high case peak recently—but Australia’s rolling CFR is .06% as of today.
New variants notwithstanding, surely it is fair to say ‘it’s over’ (actually for real this time).
Ctrl+F “CFR” & “IFR” = 0 results. Apologies if you used different terminology here but I feel it is worth pointing out that CFR has cratered in many nations, even those with high case counts and high testing rates. The old assumption of ~.5-1% IFR seems to be thoroughly passed its use-by date. For highly vaxed populations current IFR is probably sub 0.1% overall, with the same qualifiers about age/morbidity profile etc.
Particularly of interest is Australia, which could be said to have had a lot of ‘dry tinder’ given the lack of pre-omicron deaths overall, and experienced a fairly high case peak recently—but Australia’s rolling CFR is .06% as of today.
New variants notwithstanding, surely it is fair to say ‘it’s over’ (actually for real this time).