Reply #182: Knock yourself out ...

[Techn0Girl]

Specifically you make these assertions ....
"H1N1 has, so far killed 1099 out of an unconfirmed 67971 infected...death rate = 1.6%
1099 dead out of an confirmed 44,555...death rate = 2.4%"

1. How can you possibly make a death rate estimate for "unconfirmed" infected rates. Were all of them H1N1 were 1/2 of them H1N1? You don't say nor do you give a specific link to your source for the figures - you merely gave me a dozen links. On which link id the infected rate stats? Who knows?

Specifically though YOU are making up stats. YOU are not a researcher. YOU are just some poster on the internet. Show me the CDC stats or else show me a peer reviewed journal stats. I already posted the link to the Harvard researcher who IS qualified - ran the stats and concluded that H1N1 is showing a lower mortality rate overall than expected and in fact lower than for most influenza - his words not mine. His stats not mine.

Forgive me if I go with the Harvard educated researcher rather than the DU poster on this thing.