Article has no credibility. They readily admit that CASE Fatality Rate (as opposed to the bogus INFECTION Fatality Rate which “assumes” the denominator number) was 3% in March. Yep, it was. But then, the author apparently either doesn’t know how to look up publicly available data or willfilly ignores it, cuz..
Current US Deaths: 243,343
Current US Cases: 10,196,998
See: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/country/us/
Therefore, CASE Fatality Rate is still 2.38%.
Yeah, I know many Freepers think the death numbers are BS or that a large portion has co-morbidities, or that the moon had to be in the 3rd quadrant of Jupiter when any of those “deaths” were reported..or any number of reasons to try to explain the numbers away. But it doesn’t change the reality of what the CASE Fatality Rate currently is. And here in my own home state, it’s 3.4%. Hardly encouraging if you’re confirmed as being COVID positive.
The rate is highly correlated with age. The effect slope/curve as a function of age is high.
So the "encouragement" is much better at lower ages.
Yeah, the deaths are skewed big time, because not all of those people died from the Wuhan virus. Some may not have even been tested to see if they had the Wuhan virus when they died. If you believe that crap being generated by WorldMeters than you think this virus is really something to be concerned about. Well if you have a co-morbidity it is, but the vast percentage of the population does not have a co-morbidity, and survive just fine.