Originally Posted by
Pickles
What is going to be a problem for science is if they hide the IFR or CFR, which they can well calculate. It would enlightening to see if COVID indeed got milder (or not) by testing its spread in a very immunologically naïve population such as China. Or to be able to make comparisons between the mRNA vaccines and the traditional ones developed in China.
It's already impossible to tell because without a strict classification of "died with covid" vs "died from covid", the numbers are meaningless.
Granted I'm not sure this distinction was clear in other nations but it will be clear as mud in China.