Epidemiology & Biostatistics

Andrew Noymer
Bloomberg, September 20, 2022

Who Is Still Dying From Covid? The CDC Can’t Answer That

"There’s another deceptive factor that can make it look like everyone is in pretty good shape, said Andrew Noymer. The infection fatality rate, a number many were obsessed with finding early in the pandemic, is probably now close to that of flu. But the disease is killing a lot more people than flu because so many people are getting Covid. It’s common for people to get Covid several times a year, whereas people tend to get flu — at most — several times a decade." (Andrew Noymer)