[Don W]

Using the data in the article, the death rate is vanishingly small: 600K deaths out of 36.6 million cases = 0.019.

[rb22982]

Then divide that by 4 to 6 for non-recorded cases to get estimated actual death rate

[blueplum]

that’s on the average tho. Death rate for seniors runs the scale up to 5.9% +. Death rate for ICU is around 22% last I read, or 1 in 5 don’t make it.

another way to look at it is 1 in 59 dead (infected), 1 in 500 dead (US population) and 1 in 150 dead (world population) Mexico and Peru are at 1 in 9 or 10. Not so ‘vanishingly small’ maybe? and that’s just mortality, not the covid-disabled ( ( the 20% of discharged ICU who are at high risk to die within a year after repeat hospitalizations and the 20% with long covid and organ/nerve damage even in asymptomatics)