“I have been informally tracking the mortality rate of Covid-19 by dividing the number of reported deaths by the number of confirmed cases.”
sigh. mortality RATES don’t mean jackshit until we have enough IGG antibody testing of the general population with a statistically valid random sample to determine the infection rate ... until then, mortality rates are just complete bullshit ...
currently, the closest thing to the testing methodology outlined above was recently done in two separate studies in california, one by Standford and one by the LA Health Department, and they both found such a high percentage of people with IGG antibodies, meaning they had been infected and developed immunity from C-19 without even knowing it, that both estimated the mortality rates were 50-80 times lower than what others had been claiming, meaning the mortality rates are in the .1% to .3% range, which is exactly the range for influenza ...
Taxcontrol, what catnipman just said up above. Sorry for jumping on you at the beginning of this thread. But there is and has been much better info out there than some nebulous figures found online.