A case fatality rate, is, by definition, the rate of deaths occurring in diagnosed cases. It cannot be anything other.
It is, in fact, extremely dangerous to deem on the basis of no data that the number of infections is 50, 100, 1000 (pick a number) times as high as the number of cases. That kind of belief leads people to behave in ways that only contribute to the spread of virus. The effects of that belief can be seen in the recent jump in cases. Today, there were 45,956 new Covid-19 cases in the US--the biggest single-day jump there has been yet during this pandemic, in what has been a record-breaking week of new case growth. This is not good.
Unfortunately, people like you still won't believe it's serious until it affects you or someone close to you. And until then, you'll continue to do everything you can to undermine the public health messaging.
Everything you say is absolutely wrongheaded and disengenuous.
You actually seem incapable of grasping the most simple of common sense realism. You seem to ignore the actual facts in evidence so desperate are you to spread the “fear porn” puked out by the biased media.
I won’t again waste my time explaining how the death rate is properly figured because you are incapable of grasping it in your zeal at being a chicken little.
According to the CDC the actual # of cases in America is likely close to 24 MILLION and with the death total of 127000 that leaves us with an approximate death rate of around .005 (127,000/24,000,000).
Almost 600,000 tests every day being done will show many more cases and the great majority of them are asymptomatic and in the youger population a group whose instances of death or even serious illness is almost nonexistent.
This thing is over, there will be no more nation wide lock downs because the folks will simply ignore it and the power mad authorities will be able to do nothing about it. Even law enforcement officials are publicly refusing to honor the illegal lockdowns.
Go peddle your fear mongering on the DU site, it’s where you belong.