278
Stanford’s John Ioannidis says data on benefits of constraints is missing and decisions need to consider uncertainties
There are still important unanswered questions about Covid-19, but we’ve made enough progress to avoid measures of social restriction as much as possible, says John Ioannidis, professor of epidemiology at Stanford University (USA).
He has just published a paper in which he calculates a lethality rate due to coronavirus infection much lower than the approximately 4% previously predicted. On average, 0.23% of those who contract SARS-Cov-2 die, show Ioannidis calculations, with great variation in relation to age: for those under 70, the lethality is 0.05% of those who are infected .
Read more in Portuguese at Folha de S.Paulo.
