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A renowned researcher concludes that far fewer infected people around the world die from Covid-19 than previously assumed. We check that.
At the beginning of the pandemic, there was a particularly high number of deaths: one patient in the intensive care unit of the CHUV university hospital in Lausanne.
Photo: Laurent Gillieron
How many people actually die from a corona infection? Scientists have been trying to answer this question since the outbreak of the pandemic. Now a new one takes care Metastudie der Stanford University for eddies, which the WHO recently published in its bulletin. It concludes that the so-called infection mortality rate (IFR) is much lower than previously assumed.
Consequently, the IFR is in all agesnorth 0.27 percent, with those under 70 years of age even only 0.05 percent. The WHO itself assumes a mortality rate of 0.6 percent, other studies show even higher values. What is now?
