A short interview with John Ioannidis (one of the top statisticians in the world) on a study of infections in Santa Clara County suggesting that the #FatalityRate from the #coronavirus is 0.12–0.2%. comparable to that of #SeasonalFlu.
BTW, this is what honest science looks like. The study explains bases for doubt about its result.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1.full.pdf
For an explanation of why there is so much uncertainty about the potential number of deaths due to the #coronavirus, scroll to the top of this thread: https://twitter.com/RogueShoeButler/status/1245503662392295424
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