Some people have been holding out hope that SARS-CoV-2 is more widespread than limited testing can show, and that infection-fatality ratios might actually be near the range of ordinary seasonal flu…
On Wednesday, the journal Science published a new paper titled, “Estimating the burden of SARS-CoV-2 in France.” Its authors mostly work for the Institut Pasteur and the French government, but there was some offshore participation.
France will get around to conducting large random “seroprevalence” surveys to estimate how much of its population has been infected, which is crucial for establishing the various morbidity and mortality ratios that have infected people in the denominator. For now this involves an extra inferential step, and some resulting uncertainty. But the best guess in the paper is that, overall, 3.6 per cent of infected individuals will end up hospitalized.
Sadly, that is not really news. The issue is that some people have naturally been holding out hope that SARS-CoV-2 is more widespread than limited testing can show, and that infection-fatality ratios might actually be near the range of ordinary seasonal flu. The French study is another blow, a big one in a continuing series, to those hopes. As of this week, the authors believe that something like 4.
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