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Originally Posted by G50

The mass panic would be unfathomable if that were even close to true.

Plus his logic is crap. If you take deaths / total positive cases in the USA you get 4.6%, which is way overstated because we don’t actually know total cases. Most of the random sampling studies have concluded that there are several orders of magnitude more people who have had it and were asymptomatic. Most of the positive cases are either people who felt sick and requested a test, or part of a large group that was tested in bulk (meat packing plant, nursing home, etc). You can’t calculate a true fatality rate because you don’t know the denominator. That’s why looking at deaths per million actually gives a nice data point to compare between countries.