The United States recently reached 500,000 COVID-19 deaths That means the POPULATION fatality rate (i.e. deaths/population) for the US is 0.15% With an estimated ~25% infection rate, the INFECTION fatality rate is ~.6%
The CDC since revised their estimates down substantially - this initial data collection was quite biased. Mid-Jan, CDC estimated ~25%, to date, which would be consistent with the IFRs above given the lag in death reportinghttps://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burden.html …
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Actually, I should also clarify that the earlier JAMA study was not an official CDC estimate (although it was conducted by CDC personnel), while these figures are
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I think you made the same mistake that has been made many times. This table only include "Symptomatic Illness" so all Asymptomatic cases are Not included. If you add Symptomatic + Asymptomatic total infections is much higher.pic.twitter.com/LYTqd2gHvQ
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