User talk:DoctorResonable

Sure. I marked the CFR and IFR for "flu seasonal" in the "List of human disease case fatality rates as dubious. The page indicates that the CFR for the seasonal flu was 2.3% and the IFR was 0.1%. That seemed high to me, so I looked at the reference. The reference took me to a Bloomberg article which states the following:

"In a Twitter thread from February that a reader pointed out to me this week, University of Oxford infectious disease epidemiologist Christophe Fraser estimated that the actual infection fatality rate (which I will refer to from now on as IFR) of seasonal influenza is 0.04%.

Fraser also speculated that influenza expert Lone Simonsen “may have more accurate numbers.” So I emailed Simonsen, a professor of population health sciences at Roskilde University in Denmark who has worked at the CDC and National Institutes of Health in the U.S., to ask. Her answer: Fraser’s estimate is spot on."

That seems to indicate that at least two experts in the field believe the IFR for the seasonal flu is 0.04%. I didn't see anything in the article that descibed the seasonal flu CFR as 2.3%. I don't know where that number came from.

But rather than changing it myself, I thought that I'd bring it up from community discussion rather than change it myself since I'm very new the Wikipedia.

Let me know what false information I provided. Thank you much! DoctorResonable (talk) 23:44, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

I’d like to talk to you about your human infectious diseases page. It provides false information about the category. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.149.7.237 (talk) 19:28, 18 June 2020 (UTC)

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