COVID-19 death rate 'tenfold lower' than World Health Organisation claims | Sky News Australia

Infectious diseases physician and Associate Professor of Medicine Eran Bendavid says "one thing that is clear" is the death rate of COVID-19 "is much lower than the original numbers" produced in studies published by the World Health Organisation. He told Sky News host Andrew Bolt "the best estimate" the US Centre of Disease Control and Prevention concluded last week was that about "two or three per thousand with the infection end up dying from it".

Currently over 376,000 people have fallen victim to the disease around the world with more than 6 million cases being confirmed globally. Professor Bendavid said while "there's not going to be a single number" on a final death rate of the disease, "for young people you're talking somewhere in the range of 1 per 10,000" while for older people the rate will be higher.

That’s because must countries did the work and locked down. We should celebrate this, not berate the WHO because they were successful at spreading the word! Do we say pool fences are a waste of $ because no child drowns now?

Flu season is going to be good this year. Masks and hand sanitizer everywhere.

every one of these numbers are people. they died a horrible and lonely death. they had families who loved them and miss them and were unable to morn them yet you dismiss them as mere numbers because by good luck and management more didn't die.

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