I’m willing to bet up to $100 at even odds that by the end of 2020, the confirmed death toll by the Wuhan Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) will not be over 10,000. Is anyone willing to take the bet?
I accepted a bet on January 30th with a friend with the above terms. Nobody else offered to bet me. Since then, I have updated my view. I now give a ~60% probability that there will be over 10,000 deaths. https://predictionbook.com/predictions/198256
I’m willing to bet up to $100 at even odds that by the end of 2020, the confirmed death toll by the Wuhan Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) will not be over 10,000. Is anyone willing to take the bet?
I accepted a bet on January 30th with a friend with the above terms. Nobody else offered to bet me. Since then, I have updated my view. I now give a ~60% probability that there will be over 10,000 deaths. https://predictionbook.com/predictions/198256
My update is mostly based on (a) Metaculus’s estimate of the median number of deaths updating from ~3.5k to now slightly over ~10K (https://www.metaculus.com/questions/3530/how-many-people-will-die-as-a-result-of-the-2019-novel-coronavirus-2019-ncov-before-2021/) and also (b) some naive extrapolation of the possible total number of deaths based on the Feb 4th death data here: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-toll/