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%
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Got it, thanks. This implies there is ~3X more infections than tested cases. I would have expected that to be higher, at least 5X.
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The ratio changes over time. At the start of the pandemic, it was almost certainly 10x or higher. Currently, it is probably closer to 2.5x or lower. Testing changes have a huge impact
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