This study by Dr John Ioannides, et al. is highly educational, because the infection fatality rate (IFR) is a key statistic for an emerging virus.
The study looked at the infection fatality rate (IFR) for covid-19 around the world.
The most fascinating paragraph was this one:
"The median IFR was 0.0003% at 0-19 years, 0.003% at 20-29 years, 0.011% at 30-39 years, 0.035% at 40-49 years, 0.129% at 50-59 years, and 0.501% at 60-69 years."
The authors do an excellent job describing how they collected their data. The authors also do an excellent job listing the potential flaws of their study.
In my opinion, John P.A. Ioannidis, MD, who has multiple degrees, is one of the best physician mathematicians in the world.
SOURCE:
Angelo Maria Pezzullo, Cathrine Axfors, Despina G. Contopoulos-Ioannidis, Alexandre Apostolatos, John P.A. Ioannidis
medRxiv 2022.10.11.22280963; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.10.11.22280963
This article is a preprint and has not been peer-reviewed [what does this mean?]. It reports new medical research that has yet to be evaluated and so should not be used to guide clinical practice.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.10.11.22280963v1 
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