I don't know why everyone is trying to downplay this thing so much. 1% could end up being over 3 million people. Even half of that is 1.5 million people. We went to a pointless war with Iraq over 2,000 people. I don't know when human life became so expendable. I guess when people can't go inside a Starbucks that's when people must die.
The 1% quoted in the article is actually the fatality rate, which is based on the number of people that gets infected and then die. Not the total population.
Right now, based on the data. Fatality rate is 5.8%. 1,768,461 infected. 103,000 dead
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But it is undoubtedly much lower because we don't have a true total testing of all the people infected.
The more people we test, the more we will find out had CV, and recovered. Then the rate will go down.
Just like when they say the death rate of seasonal flu is 0.1%. That's based on 10% of the population, getting the flu.
In this case, 33M (out of 330M) generally get the flu, on average and 33 thousand people die form flu any given year.
That's the 0.1%, or for every 1000 people that get the flu, one person dies. That's the flu fatality rate.