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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Last question is about the timeframe. CDC says "CDC estimates that from February–December 2020." There were ~350K deaths at the end of Dec. Hence 350K/83M gives ~0.4% IFR. Is that correct?pic.twitter.com/YisHEeDcoT
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Case reporting is immediate - death reporting is lagged. At best, you'd have to use the death data from the end of January, but it's hard to say exactly because the 83 million estimate presumably includes infections that happened up until the very end of Dec
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