His equations were far closer than your DemPanic "projections".
Originally Posted by eccielover
Numbnuts, that is not true. I did not make any projections with just 1% of the USA population getting infected. Here is the calculation by Iovannidis.
If we assume that case fatality rate among individuals infected by SARS-CoV-2 is 0.3% in the general population — a mid-range guess from my Diamond Princess analysis — and that 1% of the U.S. population gets infected (about 3.3 million people), this would translate to about 10,000 deaths.
From real data the with one percent of the population getting infected you had 100,000 deaths. The professor was off by 90,000 people. Therefore, the death rate can't be .3%, it must be higher. If he had used a death rate of 1%, 30,000 people would have died, but 100,000 people died.
If you are going for herd immunity between 60-70 percent of the population has to get infected. Link has been posted already.
.70 * 330,000,000 = 231,000,000
.01 * 231,000,000 = 2,300,000
To reach herd immunity 2,300,000 people would die. This is not dempanic. This is using real numbers with Iovannidis's equation.
This is why Fauci and others advised Trump to shut things down.
https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019...ses-in-us.html