RE: bit less than 4%
A bit? ( that’s a huge understatement ). That’s 6 times less fatal than what they tell us.
But it’s still 10 time deadlier than the seasonal flu.
Now that I have a problem with.
First of all, the seasonal flu has a cure. that has been there for decades. Coronavirus potential cures are in the trial phase. As they quickly ramp up treatments like Chloroquine, death rates will drop sharply.
Second of all, the denominator is made up of mostly those who are sick enough to go for tests/go to hospitals for treatment etc. By far most people who get infected, experience very mild symptom and recover without having any tests. If we include all those vast majority of healthy individuals who just recover without any tests, the percentage of deaths is probably far far lower.
I remember a few weeks back when the “concern trolls” were posting fatality rates of up to 10% on this site. read this:
As Eran Bendavid and Jay Bhattacharya, professors of medicine at Stanford, have written, based on their model of over 6 million cases they believe exist: “That’s a mortality rate of 0.01%, assuming a two-week lag between infection and death. This is one-tenth of the flu mortality rate of 0.1%.”
https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/03/31/time_for_a_second_opinion_142817.html