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Three reasons to why it may not have been "noticed":

1. Early on it had only spread in a small percentage of the populace so the absolute number of deaths was too low to be noticed.

2. The deaths from the regular flu this year were very low, see: https://www.euromomo.eu/graphs-and-maps/

3. The antibodies test out of Europe and NYC are pointing to an IFC around 0.35-0.6 which could "only" be 3-6x the bad 2017 flu season, note Covid19 is still the worse pandemic in decades.



I'm sorry, what is IFC?


Sorry IFR, infected fatality rate instead of case fatality rate (which is usually confirmed cases)




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