2021届高考英语中英双语阅读素材（二十）

2021高考英语二轮复习：中英双语阅读素材（二十） 研究称，70岁以下健康的人中只有0.05%死于新冠肺炎 Covid-19 may actually only kill one in 2,000 healthy people under the age of 70, according to research. 根据研究，新冠肺炎实际上可能只会杀死2,000名70岁以下的健康人中的一人。 Dr John Ioannidis, from Stanford University, claims the infection-fatality rate (IFR) could be as low as 0.05 per cent in a review of antibody surveillance studies. 来自斯坦福大学的John Ioannidis博士声称，在对抗体监测研究的回顾中，感染致死率(IFR)可能低至0.05%。 His estimate — published by the World Health Organization — is five times lower than his previous claim that the IFR for all age groups stood at 0.25 per cent. For comparison, seasonal flu kills around 0.1 per cent of everyone it infects. 他的估计--由世界卫生组织(World Health Organization)公布--比他之前声称的所有年龄段的IFR为0.25%低了5倍。相比之下，季节性流感在其感染的每个人中约有0.1%死亡。 The epidemiologist is under investigation at Stanford for allegedly underestimating the lethality of coronavirus, after sparking alarm when he released a study claiming the virus was 54 times more prevalent than thought in April. 这位流行病学家正