WHO updates COVID-19 IFR to 0.27%, originally stated as 3.4%

On October 14, 2020 the Bulletin of the World Health Organisation published Professor John Ioannidis’ paper looking at the infection fatality rate (IFR) for COVID-19 based on how many people already had antibodies to SARS-CoV-2 (seroprevalence data) which revealed that the median COVID-19 IFR was 0.27% – “much lower than estimates made earlier in the pandemic”.

“In people younger than 70 years, infection fatality rates ranged from 0.00% to 0.31% with crude and corrected medians of 0.05%.”  Those over 70 years of age are disproportionately at risk.

On March 3, 2020 the WHO claimed the IFR for COVID-19 was 3.4%, and now, with this WHO bulletin, they quietly acknowledge IFR  is only 0.27%, equivalent to a bad flu season.  Ioannidis submitted the pre-print six months earlier on May 13, 2020.