IIRC, you have been corrected on this before. That fatality rate is simply spurious since it apparently overall only those who are sick and deemed worthy to be tested are tested , thus these are most likely to die. In contrast, extensive random testing shows the infection % to be much higher in relation to population and deaths, while the rate of flu infections as a % of population is higher than for Covid.
I have the CDC morality rates for the flu per state for 2018 (13 states above 17 per 100,000 total population) and for Covid here (only one state above 17 per 100,000 people, as of April 9), and according to estimates, between 61,000 to 80,000 Americans died during the 2017-2018 season, the latter being the highest death toll in 40 years. During that 2017-2018 season, the percentage of deaths attributed to pneumonia and influenza (P&I) was at or above the epidemic threshold for 16 consecutive weeks. Nationally, mortality attributed to P&I exceeded 10.0% for four consecutive weeks, peaking at 10.8% during the week ending January 20, 2018, (https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/season/flu-season-2017-2018.htm) with older Americans dying at a rate of 169 Americans a day, or seven people per hour. (https://www.aarp.org/health/conditions-treatments/info-2018/older-flu-deaths-rising.html
It is estimated that about 80% of those infected with Covid-19 experience a mild case [WHO said the like] – about as serious as a regular cold – and recover without needing any special treatment. Meanwhile a study in Iceland reports that as of April 11, the country has “tested 10% of its population for coronavirus - a figure far higher than anywhere else in the world -” [and with fatality rate of about 0.4%] and that “about half of its citizenry at any given time who have coronavirus but don't know it, will be asymptomatic” (show no symptoms), which is “a large percentage many experts studying the virus have suspected, but have had little firm data to corroborate.”
Another report is that those who are most vulnerable to death from Covid-19 are the aged with certain other heath conditions, thus 80 percent of US coronavirus deaths are people 65 and older. Then again, America murders over 2,000 of the most vulnerable souls a day (2017: https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-united-states).
It takes an awful lot of data twisting to get to full blown panic.
I have *never* been corrected by anyone who is actually an expert in this area (which I am). All I have seen here is a lot of people who, for whatever reason, do not take Covid-19 seriously, completely ignoring the scientific data and instead grasping at pronouncements issued by thinktanks and media figures who have NO experience in any aspect of public health.
In an epidemiological investigation, investigators trace the movements of a known case to identify others whom may have been exposed. As of this morning, 3,262,921 people in the US have been tested, and 640,291 cases have been identified. Those people with a risk of exposure are then tested. The fact that an excess of people have been tested as compared to those who turned out positive shows that cases are not being missed.
The worldwide death rate as of today is 139,469 deaths per 2,090,110 cases, or 6.67%. In the US, the death rate is 31,015 deaths per 640,291 cases, or 4.84%. Both worldwide and US death rates continue to rise. This is a simple and basic mathematical calculation, using the current numbers published by Johns Hopkins.